In September 2023, a new state-of-the-art concert venue opened in Las Vegas, the Sphere. The first band to play there was U2 and currently the Eagles are in residence. Both bands are featured in MUSIC TITANS – 250 GREATEST RECORDING ARTISTS OF THE PAST 100 YEARS, an encyclopedic music history compendium, widely available at Amazon and most online outlets. Here’s a very brief excerpt from MUSIC TITAN’S entry on the EAGLES—

In the 1970s, no other American band so captured the zeitgeist as did the Eagles. They took a narrow genre, country rock, and made it mainstream, transforming country music itself in the process. Along the way, they released two of the most iconic, best-selling albums of all time.

            Originally, they were four separate musicians who had migrated to L.A.; they came together to back Linda Ronstadt and formed a band, signing with David Geffen’s Asylum. Glen Frey, rhythm guitarist, and Don Henley, drummer, wrote most of the songs and handled most of the lead vocals. Bernie Leadon played guitar and brought a country sensibility while Randy Meisner added bass. Their 1972 debut featured “Take It Easy,” which put them on the musical map…           Don Felder joined the band in ’74, bringing his considerable guitar skills to the mix, and, the following year, the Eagles broke through with One of These Nights, which featured three Top 10 hits. Leadon soon departed over creative and personal differences, to be replaced by the harder-rocking Joe Walsh. In early ’76, they released Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975), and the album surprised the world, leaping off the shelves and continuing to sell for years, eventually vying with Michael Jackson’s Thriller for the title of all-time U.S. bestseller. Later that year, they released their fifth LP, the superlative Hotel California. The title track has become mythic, with its lyrical exploration of the underbelly of the American Dream, its iconic intro, and its Walsh-Felder dual lead guitar outro, which was deemed by Guitarist magazine the finest guitar solo in history….as of this writing (despite the death of two key members, Glenn Frey and Randy Meisner), the Eagles carry on.

Suggested Songs:

Desperado (1973)

One of These Nights (1975)

New Kid in Town (1976)

Hotel California (1977)