Classic rock wasn’t always great to women. The Eagles are often hailed as one of the greatest rock bands in history, but some of their music has been criticized for its sexist themes. While many fans ...

One of the most popular classic rock bands ever is The Eagles. The Eagles also knew how to spoof classic rock. Here’s a look at why they wrote an homage to some 1960s hits. “’96 Tears,’ released in ...

One of the Eagles’ most recognized songs despite never being released as a single, Vince Gill counts “Desperado” among his favorites. “It’s the first song that Glenn and Don [Henley] wrote together, ...

Frey, a James Dean-worshipping Motown devotee from Detroit, had arrived in LA in 1969 playing Chuck Berry covers. For Frey, as with his co-songwriting compadre Don Henley, a lantern-jawed Texan not ...

The Eagles knew how to pick an opening song. Six of their eight albums began with a hit single, including two consecutive chart-topping songs on 1975’s One of These Nights and then 1976’s Hotel ...

Seven Bridges Road” served as a warm-up song before becoming Eagles‘ final classic-era Top 40 hit. Prior to that, it was a tucked-away cover on a Mike Nesmith-produced album by British folk rocker ...

Not a guy known for understating his own importance, Don Henley took in his surroundings on Saturday night and acknowledged that the Eagles — the hit-making, money-minting, fake-band-in-“Almost Famous ...

Felder later went on to co-write two songs (“Too Many Hands,” “Visions”) on the band’s fourth album, One of These Nights, along with co-writing their classic “Hotel California” and “Victim of Love,” ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Mat Hayward/Getty Images Don Felder is 77 and in February of 2025 he had a health scare, ...