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LoNG

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sinceourlastannualgathering

-

but don't worry you

haven't had a

memory

lapse

or

experienced an

extended lost weekend:

Last

year's

ceremonies were

held

later

in the

year than

usual,

on

May

6,

at Cleveland's

Renaissance

Hotel. GAs I

write

this, trapped indoors

on Sunday

December

7

-

on

what F.D.R. referred

to

as"aday that will

live

in

infamy''back inry4r

but

just

another day of El

Nfio

in

Los

Angeles

inry97

-

I

welcome you

all to

the

thirteenth

annual

Rock

and Roll

Flall

ofFame

Induction

Ceremoryr GTonight, we celebrate

the achievements of artists whose

recording

careers began

twenfy-five

or

moreyears

ago,

prior

to the

eligibilitydate ofDecember3r

,1972.

GYou've

probably noticed that

the

Seventies have

returned in

a

bigway:

in

fashion,

with

the polyester,

skintight look proliferating

on runways and

in nht-

clubs; in film,

with

the

release

of such

period blockbusters

as

Boogie

Nigbts

andThe

lce

Storm, and

more

-lke

54

andTbe

Last Days

ofDisco

-to

follow

(Some

new films

set

in

the present

offer

a

nod

to

Seventies

sryle,

too

-

as

inALife Less

Ordinary,with

the decor

of certain home

interiors

and Ewan

McGregor's

loud

print

shirts and Cadillac

Eldorado.)

Recent music

videos by

English

artists Oasis and

Blur, among

others, also

have

featured

Seventies style.

Closer to home, two top Seventies

bands

based

in

California, the

Eagles

and

Fleetwood Mac,

both of whom

are among

those honored here

tonight,

have reunited

in

the

Nineties,

staglng some

of

the music industqy's

greatest-ever

comebacks.

Er's

RECr\LL

rHE

MAJoR EvENTS

oft972:

Duringthelastfullyearof

theVietnamSTar,

President Nixon

ordered

the mining

of North

Vietnam's ports, effectively blocking

all

land

and

sea

routes

into

the country,

in retaliation for Communist

land

victories throughout

South

Vietnam

and the chaotic

retreat of

SouthMetnamese

troops. Later, as Nxon campaigned for reelec-

tion. \ational

Securin'Adviser

Henry

Kissinger announced

that

peace was at hand and

that

the

number oi

L-.S.

troops

u'ould

be decreased to 27,ooo

by year's

end.

The presidential

campaign was

punctuated

br-

the

neu's

of a break-in at the Democratic

National

headquarters

at'Washington's

\\

irtergate

Hote

l.

Despite courageous investigative

reporting

by the

W'asbington

Post's Bob XToodward


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(-.rri

Bcrnste

in. the

eit-ects

oi\\'atcrgatc

\\'ere

not tullr ti-it

until ;\ugust

9,

I9;+,

u-hen

Nrxon r.r-as

fbrce d

to

resign and

\-ice

President Gerald Ford

became

the thirry-eighth U.S.

President.

Back

to'Tz,andonamore positive

note: Nixon

and

Kissinger

traveled to Communist China for the first official

U.S.

visit in

twenty-two

years.

They met Premier Chou

EnJai, with whom

they

issued

a

joint

statement calling

for

greater

communication

between

the two

po'\Mers.

After visiting

the Great }7all, the

heads of state

returned with

gifts

(including

a

pair

of pandas

sent

over

later),

thus opening

the

doors

for the strong trade

relationship we

have

with

China today

Nxon also

visited the

Soviet Union in an effort to

help

thaw the Cold

\Var, while

seeking

Brezhnev's support in ending the war

in

Vietnam.

'Watergate

was

not

the only

indication of

government

mis-

deeds.JournalistJack Anderson disclosed

in

his newspaper

col-

umn that

a

memo written

by

lobbyist Dita Beard suggested

that theJustice

Department had

settled

an antitrust suit in

exchange

for

campaign

contributions.

Later, Anderson

revealed

a CIA

tie to the assassination of Chile's socialist

President

Salvador

Allende. The

crusading

Anderson

and

the

Neza

Tork

Times

were awarded

r97z Pulitzer

prizes

for

their

combined roles in

publishing

the Pentagon

Papers.

During the Munich

Summer

Olympics,

the

U.S.S.R.

won fifty

gold medals

andAmerican swimmer Mark Spitz

earned seven

of

the

gold.

Tiagically, the

Games

were marred by the deaths

of

eleven

Israeli

athletes

at

the

hands

ofPalestinian

guerrillas.

In

the States, too, gunfire

rang

out, as

an assassination

attempt

was

made on Democratic presidential primary candi-

date George Wallace, who

was

left paralyzed.

In world

events,

violence

between Catholics

and

Protestants

in

Northern

Ireland reached an all-time high and Britain

imposed direct rule. There were election upsets

in

Australia,

where the Labor Party

under Gough

$Thitlam

scored a

victory,

ending

twenty-three

years of

Liberal/Countryparty

rule,

and

in

New

Zealand, where Norman Kirk's Labor Party unseated the

National

Parry,

bringing to

a close

twelve

years

of

leadership. In

Canada,

Prime Minister Pierre Tiudeau came close to losing

the election, but after

a

recount ofvotes

stayed

in

office.

Elsewhere in the world,

Bangladesh,

formerly East Pakistan,

was

given

its independence

after

a brief war with Pakistan,

and

Ceylon officially

changed

its name to

Sri

Lanka.

N

DECEMBER

26, r972, we lost one of the truly great

statesmen and

leaders

of

the fwentieth Century Harry

S.

Tiuman, thirty-third President of the United

States.

Other

ry72

deaths: FBI

founding directorJ.

Edgar

Hoover; the

Duke

of

Sfindsor, the former King Edward

VIII

of

Gre

at

Britain;

cartoonist

Max Fleischer, creator of

Popeye

and Betty

Boop;

EEC founder Paul-Henry

Spaak;

former Ghanaian

President Kwame Nkrumah; baseball

greats

Jackie

Robinson

and Roberto Clemente; composers

Rudolf Friml and

Oscar

Levant; cowboy star'William Boyd, better

known

as

Hopalong

Cassidy;

pioneer hotelier HowardJohnson;

French

actor

and

singer

Maurice

Chevalier;

Charles

Atlas, who grew

from

a

nine-

ty-seven-pound weakling to become

the world's most famous

strongman; gospel great and

Rock

and

Roll

Hall

of Fame

inductee MahaliaJackson; R&B legend

Big

Maybelle Smith;

poet

Ezra Pound;

'Amos 'n'Andy"

creator Charles Correll; the

silver

screen's

Dame Margaret Rutherford, George

Sanders and

Brandon De'Wilde; King Frederik

IX

of Denmark; and diplo-

mat Llewellyn ThompsonJr.

Important

sports

events

of

ry72:The

Oakland

Athletics

won

the

World

Series

after beating

the

Cincinnati

Reds;

the Dallas

Cowboys trounced the

Miami Dolphins 24 to

3

in

the Super

Bou'l: antl

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Boris

Spasskr:

On Broadu'ali afier

an

unprecedentecl;.:

:

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::rJncc\.

Fiddler

on the

Roof

closed.

Other

hit Broads'al

shos's

inclucled

Prisoner of SecondAvenue,

Follies, Lenny and Sticks and Bones.

Bigar

the box

office

were the critically

acclaimed

films

The French

Connection,

Klute,

Cabaret,

Tbe

Godfathe4

Play It Again

Sam

and

Bufluel's

Discreet Charm of the

Bourgeoisie.

Popular

on

the

small

screen:

All

in the

Family,

Columbo

andThe

MaryTyler

Moore Sbou.

In recording-industry

news,

there

was

a

lot

ofaction over at

Columbia

Records,

with Clive

Davis inking a buzz band out

of

Boston,

Aerosmith, andJohn

Hammond signing

an

unknown

Asbury Park rocker, Bruce Springsteen.

More

on

this

next

year

"The

First Time Ever I

Saw

Your

Face"

captured both Record

and

Song of

the

Year

at the Grammys,

with Album

of the Year

going to

The Concertfor

Bangladesh.

Other

big

hits

o{

ry72

includ-

ed

'American

Pie" by

Don Mclean, "\Tithout You"

by

Nlsson,

"Let's

StayTogether" byAl

Green,

'A

Horse

\fith No Name" by

America,

"Nights

in\7hite

Satin"

bythe MoodyBlues,

"Heart

of

Gold" by Neil Young, "Oh Girl"

by the

Chilites,

"Betcha

By

Golly

\Wow"

by

the

Srylistics,

"My

Ding-a-Ling"

by

Chuck

Berry

"Burning Love"

by

Elvis Presley "Papa\7as

a

Rollin

Stone"

by

the

Temptations,

"Garden

Party" by Rick Nelson,

"Freddie's

Dead"

by

Curtis

Mayfield

and

"Ben"

by

MichaelJackson.

I

r rs

AGATNST

THrs BAcKDRop that we honor

tonight's

I I

inducteest

I

The Eagles,

whose

Their

Greatest

Hits rg1r-rgZt

is

the

sec-

ond

biggest-selling

album of all

time

at

twenty-four million

units

(playing

tag for

first

place with

MichaelJackson's Tbriller);

Fleetwood

Mac,

whose Rumours album is the third highest-

selling album at seventeen

million

(a

tie with Led Zeppelin's

fourth

album); Gene

Vincent,

the

rockabilly

and

rock

&

roll

great whose

hits "Be-Bop-a-Lula,"

"Bluejean

Bop"

and

"Lotta

Lovin'

"

were

even

bigger

sellers

in the

U.K.

and Europe than

theywere in

the

United

States;

Lloyd

Price,

best

known for late-

Fifties recordings

"Stagger

Lee" and

"Personality" but

whose

r95z

smash

"Lawdy

Miss Clawdy"

was

a great

influence

on

Elvis

Presley;

Santana, one

of the most enduring

acts

to

emerge

from

the

San

Francisco

Fillmore

and

Avalon concert

scene

of

the late

r96os; and the Mamas

and

the

Papas,

one of rock

&

roll's

great

harmony quartets.

In

our

specialized

categories, we

honor New

Orleans arranger,

producer, songwriter and keyboardist Allen

Toussaint

and

another Crescent Citylegend,

early

jazzvisionary

Jelly

Roll

Morton.

As we

begin

1998, we can

look forward

to beginning

a new

chapter

rvithin

the music

industry:

1997

marked

the hun-

dredth anniversary of

EMI Records,

which

began

life

as

the

Gramophone Company

in England.

EMI

was the first truly

international record company

becoming a

global entity

in

rgit

with

the

purchase

of

Capitol

Records for a reputed

$7

million

-

which

has

to rank somewhere on

the list

of great

internation-

al deals

up

there

with

Peter

Minuit's

purchase of New

York

(NewAmsterdam)

from the

Indians for

$24

worth

of

beads

in

16z6

and

\Tilliam

Seward's

purchase of Alaska

from

the

Russians

in

fi67

for

S7.z

million.

This

year,

we celebrate the

fiftieth

anniversary of one

of

America's

original

independent

labels,

the great

Atlantic

Records

(now

part

of

the $Tarner

Music Group),

whose

founder

and

chairman

Ahmet

Ertegun

-

also

cofounder

and

chairman of

the

Rock

and

Roll Hall of

Fame

-

has

always been a

pioneer

and

innovator. Ahmet

began

celebrating

in

r958

on the occasion

of

Atlantic's

tenth anniversary and

has

not

stopped yet.

Hopeful-

ly like

the

Energizer

bunny,

he never will


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PERFOR^\IERS

THE

AffiL

THE EAGLES SOARED

ABOVE THE

RAPIDLY CHANGING

LAND-

scape of

America in the Seventies,

casting

the social

mores of those

high-flving

years

into

keenly

observed

songs that everyone

came to

know by heart.

In

their

flight

across

a

decade

that they

defined

as

authoritatively

as

anyband, the Eagles

mirrored

the

larger

changes

tak-

ing

place

in

sociery

They

began

as

wide-eyed

innocents with a country-

rock

pedigree

and

ended

as

purveyors

of

grandiose,

dark-themed

albums chronicling a

world

of

excess

and seduction

that

had

begun

spinning seriously

out of control.

A Hollywood scriptwriter

couldn't

have plotted out the parallel

history

of

a

band

and

the decade they

inhabited any better than

this: The

Eagles were born

inr97r and died

in

r98o. The

ultimate

plot twist

is

that

theywere

reborn

inry94 for anoth-

er

go-round

as the public demonstrated

an

insatiable appetite

for

their

music and

messages.

GThe stats

on

the

Eagles

are

hugely

impressive. A

best-of collection

,

Tbeir

Greatest

Hits

r97t-r975, has the distinction

of

being the second biggest-selling

album

of all

time,

having sold

in

excess

of twenty-four

million copies

to

date.

It was also,

I

rne

i;sres, ier*:clenl

incidentally, the

first

album ever

to

be

certified

plat-

Li"i

;

,

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inum

(one

million sold) by the

Recording

Industry

I

irar:rif 'ff:efi)

Association of America, which

introduced

that classification

in 1976.

How

complete

was

the

Eagles' conquest

of

the

Seventies,

particularly

the

latter half

of the decade?

Consider

that

theyreleased

four consecu-

tive Number One albums between

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weeks. They had

five

Number

One singles

ancl an

equal

number

that

made the Top

Ten.

They

are

one

oi

three

sroups

in

historv

(along

with

the

Beatles

and

Pink

Flovd)

rvith

nr-o albums

that

have sold

more than ten

million

copies apiece

in the

United

States.

The

Eagles

sold

more

albums

in the Seventies

than

anr'

other

American

band

-

and

that's

just

part of the story

Although the

band

was on

hiatus

for

the

whole of

the

Eighties,

their

back catalogue

continued to

sell

a

million

and

a

half copies annually

Moreover,

the seeds they'd sown as

a

group

bore

fruit in their

respective solo

careers

-

particularly

those

of

founding

members Don

Henley

and

Glenn

Frey

-

while

their

influence helped spark

the

renegade

"new

country"

movement.

'When

a baker's

dozen

of

country's

hottest stars recorded

the

tribute albtm

ComnonThread:

The Songs of tbe

Eagles in 1993, its

unexpected

triple-platinum

success

prompted the

Eagles

to

reunite a year

later. The subsequent

album and

tour were

titled

Hell

Freezes

Oae4

adrollappropriation

of

Don

Henley's response

to

a

journalist's

question

-

"\fhen

will

the

Eagles

get back

together?"

-

way back

when the wounds were

still

fresh.

\7hat went right

and

what

went

wrong with

the

Eagles is an

archetypal

Seventies

tale of

inspiration,

hard work,

success,

excess, conflict and,

happily

resolution

(albeit

fourteen

years

after

their

unofficial

breakup).

The

Eagles formed

in

Los

Ange

les

at the start of

a new decade

as a

quartet of

musicians

fiom

different backgrounds

and

locales. Drummer Don Henley

can.re

from

Texas

with

his

band

Shiloh

(which

recorded

a

lone

album

he's

described

as "awful"). Guitarist

Glenn Frey was a

rockcr

tiom Detroit

who headed

west, where

he

befriended and

roomed

rvith

then-obscure

fellow musicians

Jackson

Browne

andJohn

David

Souther.

He formed

a duo with Souther, cutting

one

album

as

Longbranch

Pennl'whistle. Bernie

Leadon,

who

plavs

a

variery

of stringed

instruments,

came

from

a bluegrass

background

and

belonged

to

the proto-country-rock outfits

Hearts

and

Flowers, Dillard

and Clark and

the Flying Burrito

Brothers.

Bassist

and

high-harmony

singer Randy Meisner

played

with

such

country-

and

folk-rock

mainstays

as

Rick

Nelson,James Thylor and

Poco. Piece by piece,

the four

original

Eagles

first

came

together

in r97o as

Linda

Ronstadt's

backing

band.By

ry7l

they'd gone

off on

their

own

and had

honed

their

repertoire

at

an

Aspen, Colorado, club

called the

Gallery

Their

manager,

David Geffen,

released

the

Eagles'

debut

album

on

Asylum

Records,

a

label he

formed

as

a

vehicle

for

artists

like them and

Jackson

Browne.

(It

would

also

provide

asylum

to

such

kindred spirits

asJoni

Mitchell,

Linda

Ronstadt

and

\Tarren

Zevon,

among

others.)

Early

pressin gs

of

Eagles,

released in

1972,

had

a gatefold

sleeve

that

opened

to

reveal

a

picture

of the group

members gathered

around a

fire,

absorbed

in

an Indian

peyote

ritual.

At

this

point, their

music

was

as

pure

and

full of

sparkle

as spring

water, and

their

songs evoked

the

broad

and boundless

vistas of the

Far'West. The album's first

single,

the rousing,

anthemic

"Thke It

Easy"

(cowritten

by Frey

and

Browne), and tracks

like

"Peaceful

Easy Feeling" and

"-Witchy'Woman"

have

become

Eagles

standards.

"The whole

country-rock

movement

. . . was

very

much

connected

to

the

earth,

and everybody

was wearing earthy

clothes and celebrat-

ing the

outdoors,"

Henley reflected

in

a

r

99o

Rolling Stone

irter-

view

"I

lament that

loss, that

contact

we had with nature."

In the

Seventies,

the way

of

Southern

California

became the

way of

the world, and the Eagles were


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inspired the central

metaphor

of their

second

album,

Desperado.

In

that

album,

the Eagles exploredthe notion

of

rocker-as-outla\4{ retelling the story

of

an Old

West gunslinger

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as a

kind

of

parable about their

gen-

eration,

ingeneral,

and

the rise and fall of rock stars,

inparticular.

Released in1973, it

yielded

such

Eagles favorites

as "Tequila

Sunrise"

and the

richlymoving

and

metaphorical title track.

It

also

served

notice

that

the Eagles possessed an ambitious

intelligence

that

refused

to be confined by

the

strictures

of

genre.

The

recording

of the

Eagles'transitional third album, t974's On

the

Borde4

witnessed a shift

in

producers

(GlynJohns

to Bill

Szymc4rk)

and

locales

(-ondon

to LosAngeles).

Aharder-rocking

album

than its

predecessors,

it also saw the

Eagles

beef up

their

sound with the addition

of

guitarist

Don Felder

late in

the ses-

sions.

Ironically,

after

the middling

success

of two uptempo

rockers,'Already Gone" and'James Dean,"

it

was an acoustic

ballad, "The

Best

ofMyLove,"

that served as the

Eagles'break-

through

single. It carried them to the

top

of

the charts in March

r975,where they'd remain

for most

of

the rest

of

the

decade.

One of

Tbese I'{igbts,

the

Eagles'

fourth

album, appeared

in

June

ry75.

The album

reflected

the onset of a strain of

disillu-

sionment

that infiltrated both the political and personal

realms

at

mid-decade.

\7ith

the nation poised between the

jarring

near-impeachment of a scandal-ridden

president and the

jingo-

istic celebration of a

Bicentennial that missed the point,

the

Eagles unerringly captured

the prevailing

minor-keyed mood

of uncertainty

and

distrust.

For

their

labors, the

group

was

rewarded

with

their first

Number

One album and

a

trio

of

hit

singles: "One

ofThese

Nights,"

"Lyii

Eyes"

and

"Thke

It

to

the

Limit."

But

success

came at a cost. One of

These Nigbts took six

months

to

make,

and

the

grueling

experience

occasioned by

the group's

increasing studio

her-

mitage drove

Bernie Leadonto leave

the band.

He

was replaced

byJoe

\Yalsh.

an

old

friend

u'ho

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ballast

to the

Eagles' sound.

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Eagles

were

an

in-demand concert

attraction

and

::=

tirst

bands

of

Seventies

vintage

who could

justifiably

,

-

s':pe rstars.

Rising to the

challenge of

how to top them-

:-.:a r.S

thev

were informally competing against such

-

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t:rers

of

Seventies

songcraft

asJackson

Browne

and

-

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Eagles

upped the ante

and

then showed aroyal

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newmaterial, the

masterfulHotel

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that album's

title

track,

they devised another

-

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this

one

forthe

decadent

malaise thathad

set-

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during the excessive

Seventies

(otherwise

-

:

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r.1:

"-\Ie

Decade").ITriterAnthony

DeCurtis insight-

-

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i

. :e I

C,tlliornia's

"depiction

of agorgeous paradise

:

i

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a

kind

of

sunny

hell of unsatis$ring

pleasure."

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\\

illiam Ruhlmann compared

the album to

"

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:

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:.orh

sen-ing

to tell

"a

cautionary tale

about the

.

.

-

-

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to experience

and disillusionment."

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the Eagles

had

T:shirts

made

up

that

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:::do

as

musicians:

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in

the studio

over

a

long

period

of

time,

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released

in December r976

-

it

had

been

a

-

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an

album of

musical commentary

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rear

-

and

leapt to Number One by

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no

doubt

little

suspecting

that

it

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best-se1ler.)

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the

band

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of

con-rpilations).

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- -

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tothepopularlericon:"lifein

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1ane."

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title of

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,rg

Thoueh

the album ri-as

ing of

its

guitar-driven

title track,

there

was

a

discernible

undercurrent

of

tension

that

reflected

a

smolder-

ing discontent. Citing

exhaustion,

bassist

Randy

Meisner left in

September and

was replaced by

Timothy B.

Schmit,

late

of

Poco.

Meanwhile,

intragroup rela-

tions

-

particularly between

Frey

and

Henley

the Eagles'

main

songwriters

and

creative

core

-

were

growing

strained.

Sessions

for

the

next

album

,The

LongRun,

dragged on

for two

years

and drove

the

Eagles

to the breaking point,

as

the perfec-

tion-obsessed group endeavored

with difficulty

to

improve

upon

Hotel

Caltfornia,

which

cast a

long

shadow Though it

was

in

commercial

and even critical

terms

a successful

album,

yield-

ing

yet

another trio of

hits

("Heartache

Tonight,"

"The

Long

Run"

and

"I

Can't

Tell You

Why"), The Long Run

had

been

a

draining experience

that

ultimately

spelled the

demise

of the

Eagles.

Their

swan song was

Live,

a

double album released

late

in r9Bo,

by which

time

the

group

was

effectively

defunct,

though

no

formal announcement to that effect

was ever

made.

Thus,

Glenn

Freywasn't exactlylyingwhen

he announced at

the

outset

of

a

ry94

concert for MTV's cameras that the

Eagles'

fourteen-yearvacation

had ended.

"\)fe

see

this not

as

a reunion

but

a

resumption,"

Frey

explained.

As for

the specter of

resuming their life in the fast

lane,

"N7e

grew out of

it," Henley told USA

Tbday's

Edna

Gundersen

in

1994.

"N7e

survived

the Sixties, the

Seventies and

the

Eighties.

Nfe survived mentally and physically and our

music

survived.

That is

no

mean

feat."

Indeed,

that canny survival

instinct

-

along with

a decade's

ri'orth

of

incredible music

-

is

good

reason to celebrate the

Easles'induction

into

the

Rock

and

Roll Hall

of Fame

tonight.


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