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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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“One night, Duane was sitting on the floor playing slide. I said, ‘You’ve got to show me how to do that’”: Don Felder on what he learned from Duane Allman, how many guitars are in his awe-inspiring collection and why he isn’t stopping any time soon

A little dehydration aside, there is nothing stopping the former Eagles man. Here he discusses his epic guitar collection and his new compilation, The Vault 1975-2025: Fifty Years of Music

Guitar World

“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

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“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”

MusicRadar

How Clint Eastwood inspired the final album from Eagles legend Glenn Frey

"Music isn't about how many records you've sold, it's about showing that you still care"

Louder

“I played that on just about every Eagles record”: Don Felder names the most important guitar in his 300-strong collection

Every guitar is painstakingly ordered in his vault, but there's one he finds himself grabbing more than most

Guitar World

“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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“Don Henley’s looking at me like I’m crazy, and finally I said, ‘What?’ He goes, ‘I thought you were a bluegrasser…’” Vince Gill on the importance of versatility – and how the Eagles enabled him to flex his hidden rock chops

Gill shocked everyone – including Henley – when he proved himself to be capable of playing bona fide rock riffs

Guitar World

“I don’t think we’ll have to go out into the desert and take peyote and puke like we did in the old days – when we were the hip young LA cowboys”: How Don Henley and Glenn Frey remembered the Eagles’ wild years as they created the band’s swan song

“Certainly, we don’t want to fail. We’ve never really known much failure”

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“I have to give credit to him… I was telling him that I was in a quandary about what to do about the band”: How Don Henley got the Eagles back on track after Glenn Frey’s death – with some help from Bono

The guitarist’s passing sewed doubts over the band’s future, but the U2 frontman steered Henley in the right direction

Guitar World

Greatest hits record becomes first album in US history to sell over 40 million units

Michael Jackson's ‘Thriller’ holds the second spot

The Independent UK

“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

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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"We killed every night. So I knew I had something": The epic saga of one of rock's great live acts, Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band

Detroit rock veteran Bob Seger looks back on his early career and his transformation from regional hero to national treasure

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

“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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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

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Country-Rock Pioneer JD Souther Dies At 78

Remembering JD Souther, the influential songwriter and musician who shaped the country-rock sound of the 1970s. His collaborations with Eagles and Linda Ro...

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

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

Louder

"I could hardly listen to that song when we were recording it - it made me ill": the Eagles song that was written as a warning but heard as a celebration

Life In The Fast Lane was built on a swaggering riff from Joe Walsh, with a title that reflected the craziness of the Eagles

Guitar World

The Eagles are the undisputed masters of harmony lines blending country and rock – this video masterclass unpacks their signature guitar style

If you've ever promised yourself that, one of these nights you're gonna play like the Eagles, take it easy... This video and tab lesson has everything you need to take your playing to the limit one more time

Louder

“I had heard how turbulent this band was. All this fighting over control and power”: Don Felder lived through the best and worst of the Eagles, and came out the other side

Former Eagles guitarist Don Felder went from a dirt poor childhood to one of the biggest groups in history – and survived it all

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