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“Glenn Frey said it best when he said we ‘created a monster with Hotel California, and it ate us’”: Don Felder on the making of the Eagles’ The Long Run

Just how does a band follow an album like Hotel California? With great difficulty, is the answer. Don Felder looks back at an triumph from a band that was coming apart at the seams

Guitar World

“The way we played guitar, the way I voiced against Tom, we found it on American Girl. I thought, ‘This is us.’ Those two guitars helped make it happen”: Mike Campbell on how his lifelong musical connection with Tom Petty was forged in a matter of days

As he celebrates the release of his memoir, Heartbreaker, Tom Petty’s right-hand man and dear friend reflects on a career’s worth of enduring hits, and why he “never doubted the music”

Guitar World

"I was afraid something inside of me was dying. Leaving was an act of survival": Life in the fast lane and the turbulent tale of the Eagles

Fistfights, ulcers and run-ins with the law were all part of the Eagles’ everyday life: A look behind the rise, fall and unexpected rise again of the ultimate Californian band

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“Tom listened to it and said, ‘It sounds kind of jazzy.’ I went back and changed the chorus, and that’s the version I played for Don”: Mike Campbell on writing The Boys of Summer with Don Henley – after Tom Petty passed on it

Campbell made an all-important change to the song before handing it over to Henley

Guitar World

“I play the double-neck and trade solos with Joe Walsh on Hotel California. It’s a bit terrifying, but it’s the greatest thing ever”: Chris Holt landed The Eagles without an audition – but his gigs with Mike Campbell and Don Henley might have helped

Former Don Henley sideman has a multi-amp rig when he plays with Mike Campbell, and a stipped down in-ears-only setup for the Sphere – but he always has 12 guitars standing by

Guitar World

"It’s a thin line between child and genius." Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell reveals how a drum machine confused the hell out of Bob Dylan when he tried to write a hit single in the mid '80s

After seeing how Mike Campbell's input revitalised Don Henley, Bob Dylan fancied a slice of the action, but was thwarted by a uncooperative drum machine

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“I think I brought a musicality that Tom wasn’t capable of”: Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell opens up on his productive but sometimes fractious relationship with bandmate Tom Petty

“Sometimes he made me so angry I couldn’t look at him,” Campbell says of Petty in his new memoir

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Ten reasons why Tears For Fears made two of the most influential albums ever

If you’ve been wondering what connects Disturbed, Kanye West, The 1975, David Guetta, James Corden, Nas, New Found Glory, Foals, Dizzee Rascal and more then this is the list for you. If you haven’t, you might as well read it anyway.

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A rare-books dealer was accused by Don Henley of selling stolen ‘Hotel California’ lyrics. Now he’s taking the Eagles co-founder to court

Exclusive: In a new lawsuit, New York City rare-books dealer Glenn Horowitz claims Eagles singer Don Henley falsely portrayed him as a crook

The Independent UK

“I’d hear it on the radio as a kid, and now I’m standing beside Don Henley playing it – I had to do both solos, Joe Walsh’s and Steve Lukather’s”: The SatchVai Band is just the latest of many high-profile stops for Pete Thorn

He’s been on the road since the ’90s with Chris Cornell, Don Henley, Melissa Etheridge and many others – now the session pro is ready to do whatever Joe Satriani and Steve Vai need him to (once they tell him)

Guitar World

“It was two days after Chris Cornell passed. Steve said, ‘I know you lost your friend – it's too soon now, but the time will come where you think of him, and it'll be happy memories’”: Once just a hero and mentor, Steve Vai is now Pete Thorn's bandmate

“Here, I'd lost a close friend and collaborator; and a hero of mine, from the time I was 11 years old or so, took the time to console me,” the newly appointed SatchVai Band guitarist tells GW

Guitar World

“It is with profound regret that I find I must bow out of my role with the Eagles while I can still do so gracefully”: Longtime Eagles guitarist announces retirement from band following health struggles

Veteran guitarist Steuart Smith, who's been touring with the Eagles for 24 years, revealed that his recent Parkinsonism diagnosis had a profound impact on his decision to retire

Guitar World

"He didn't tap a foot or move his head or anything. He listened to it all the way through and I thought he hated it": When an Eagle, Heartbreaker, Roger Linn and an Oberheim OB-X combined forces for a pop masterpiece – the Boys Of Summer story

Best of 2024: Tom Petty rejected Mike Campbell's synth and drum machine demo, Don Henley didn't make that mistake… but the 1984 hit had other obstacles to overcome

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“Prince is overtly sexual. I am very quietly sexual. That's the difference”: What Stevie Nicks said about her famous friends - and famous ex-partners

And why Tom Petty told her: ‘You don’t need help!”

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"In which not-so-jolly Roger regales us with his musings on all the usual subjects": Roger Waters rails against capitalism, America, war, religion and television on Amused To Death

Amused To Death is Roger Waters’ proudest solo moment and a damning reflection on social disintegration.

Louder

"Peyote didn’t make me puke, but some of the other guys puked for all of us": The Eagles on Indian tribal rituals, playing with Guns N' Roses and the lyric police

In early 2001 the Eagles were about to start work on their comeback album, Long Road Out Of Eden – so we tracked them down

Guitar World

“Mick Fleetwood asked me to join the band, but I don’t think Stevie voted against me… I don’t play like Lindsey, but I was able to do the songs justice”: Mike Campbell on the challenge of joining Fleetwood Mac and what he learned from Tom Petty

He could always write songs, but spending all those years by Tom Petty's side taught Campbell a thing or two about fronting a band. He tells GW how these lessons are shaping the sound of the Dirty Knobs and what life was really like in Fleetwood Mac

The Independent UK

Stevie Nicks says not getting an abortion would have ended Fleetwood Mac

‘I wouldn’t have even known what to do with that responsibility,’ the singer said

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JD Souther obituary

American singer and songwriter who co-wrote some of the Eagles’ biggest hits including New Kid in Town

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"He was a crucial co-writer on many of our most popular songs": The Eagles pay tribute to their collaborator, celebrated songwriter JD Souther, who has passed away aged 78

Souther's credits include New Kid In Town, Best Of My Love and Heartache Tonight

The Independent UK

JD Souther, a singer-songwriter who penned hits for the Eagles and Linda Ronstadt, dies at 78

John David “JD” Souther has died

Salon

Experts: Taylor Swift could sue Trump

"I accept!" Trump declared on Truth Social after sharing AI-generated "Swifties for Trump" images

Louder

"I'm gonna kick your ass when we get off the stage": The night the Eagles broke up

The story of Long Night at Wrong Beach

The Independent UK

Eagles singer Don Henley sues collectors for return of handwritten ‘Hotel California’ lyrics

The Eagles co-founder has maintained the pages were stolen

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“He was a maniac… he said ‘Turn every knob 180 degrees from where it is now and see what happens’”: How Lindsey Buckingham took Fleetwood Mac on a creative left-turn on Tusk after Rumours

“A noisy, bouncing fuzz-monster that makes no kind of sense in the universe of mainstream 70s radio pop” – but is Fleetwood Mac's flop a misunderstood masterpiece?

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