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Mexican reggae! Gunslinger duels! Chainsaws! The making of the Eagles' 1976 masterpiece Hotel California

Fifty years after it was recorded and released, Don Henley and producer Bill Szymczyk revisit the making of the Eagles' most successful album

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“I was just playing, warming up for the show, and Glenn comes busting in… ‘What the hell’s that?’ ‘I don’t know, it’s just this lick I warm up with.’ He said, ‘No, that‘s an Eagles song, dude!’” The making of the Eagles’ 1976 masterpiece Hotel California

How the Eagles harnessed their cresting creative powers – and resisted their appetite for destruction – to create one of rock’s all-time classics

Guitar World

“Felder and Walsh were in the control room, one to the right, one to the left, like gunfighters! Felder was the ultimate technician. Walsh was the ultimate ‘feel’ guy. Together they were phenomenal”: The making of the Eagles’ masterpiece

“It was obviously our creative peak. Every band, every artist, has one”

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"Jim Morrison was standing on the balcony shouting: ‘You guys suck! I got more talent in my big toe than your entire group!'" How Poco invented a brand-new sound - only to have it stolen by the Eagles

While everyone else was getting laid at the Tropicana, "squeaky-clean" Poco created a country-rock template others were quick to borrow

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“He wrote some of the best parts of Hotel California and Desperado. He wrote some pivotal lines that I wouldn’t have thought of in a million years”: Don Henley’s praise for his Eagles bandmate Glenn Frey

“We wrote the soundtrack to a lot of people’s lives”

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“They all thought it was a bonkers idea but it worked. It was already a great song, but that one little thing made it different”: How the Eagles made somebody else’s song their own – and defined the sound of country rock

"Those open chords felt like an announcement: ‘And now... the Eagles!’”

MusicRadar

“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

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"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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“I got a call from Glenn Frey. I just said. ‘Where do I sign?’ Here they were asking me to join The Eagles without playing one lick of music with them”: Timothy B. Schmidt joined The Eagles at the height of Hotel California – and didn't even audition

From Poco to Toto, Steely Dan to Spinal Tap, Timothy B. Schmidt has logged endless road miles and studio hours – and then there’s his main gig...

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Randy Meisner obituary

Singer and bassist with the Eagles who wrote one of their biggest hits, Take It to the Limit

The Guardian - UK

The harmonic genius of Frey, Felder, Walsh, Henley, Meisner and Leadon: 5 songs you need to hear by The Eagles (that aren't Hotel California)

Great guitar moments from one of the biggest selling bands of all time

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“An integral part of the Eagles and instrumental in the early success of the band”: Eagles founding bassist, Randy Meisner, dies aged 77

The bassist played on the LA legends’ first five studio albums, including Hotel California, and sung Take It to the Limit

Guitar World

Eagles founder and bassist Randy Meisner, dies aged 77

The quiet, humble hero of the classic lineup has passed away

MusicRadar

Former Eagles bassist Randy Meisner dead at 77

Original Eagles bassist and co-vocalist Randy Meisner has died in Los Angeles

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Randy Meisner, founding member of the Eagles and singer of Take It to the Limit, dies aged 77

Meisner died in Los Angeles of complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, his bandmates said

Salon

Randy Meisner, dead at 77

Meisner co-wrote and sang one of the band's most popular songs, “Take It to the Limit”

WEKU

Randy Meisner, founding member of the Eagles, dies at 77

Called "the sweetest man in the music business" by ex-bandmate Don Felder, Meisner joined Don Henley, Glenn Frey and Bernie Leadon in the early '70s to form one of the most popular acts in history.

Chicago Sun-Times

Randy Meisner, Eagles co-founder and ‘Take It to the Limit’ singer, dies at 77

Bassist, who left the blockbuster band in 1977, died of complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

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Randy Meisner, founding member of the Eagles, dead aged 77

Former bassist and vocalist died of complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary diseas

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