History of the Eagles Part One Page #14

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'he then put on his space suit... '

And heroes, they come and they go...

He was a hard-headed man,

he was brutally handsome

She was terminally pretty...

On a dark desert highway

Cool wind in my hair...

That song has really gotten around.

.. Rising up through the air

Up ahead in the distance

Saw a shimmering light

Head grew heavy and my sight grew dim

I had to stop for the night...

There's been a lot of conjecture about how

and why we got back together.

We began to realise that

we'd been away for 14 years.

Maybe we could have that rarest

of things in American life,

which is a second act.

You know, a second chance.

CHEERING:

Thank you.

When we stopped, I was really sad.

Like, "What are we going to do?"

I sleep all day out all night

I know where you're going

I don't rock you act that way

You don't think it's showing...

I was pretty devastated.

I had only been part of it

for barely three years,

and I'd loved it.

When we're hungry Love

will keep us alive...

We created this monster, and it

took its toll on all of our lives.

Maybe some day we will find

That it wasn't really wasted time...

Somebody was quoted as saying the

Eagles would get back together

when hell freezes over.

So, hell froze over.

Mmm-m-m-mmm mm-mm-mmm.

WOMAN:
We're all ready. The

gentleman in blue over there.

After the acrimony and the

bitterness that marked

the demise of the band, it must

have been a long road to reunion.

Can you just take us through the

steps that you went through

on the road to reunification?

No.

LAUGHTER:

SCATTERED APPLAUSE

Anybody want that one?

No, really, it's a fair question.

From the time that we disbanded in 1980,

there were always offers on the

table for us to get back together.

It started with the first US Festival,

and Steve Wozniak wanted to

pay us a million dollars.

I said no.

I needed to do something else.

The heat is on

It's on the street

The heat is... on!

I called my first solo album No

Fun Aloud because I was having

so much fun.

It was so liberating to

know that whatever I did

was going to be more fun than what I

just did for the last three years on

The Long Run album.

I knew I wanted to have a

songwriting partner, so I

asked my friend Jack Tempchin if he

wanted to write some songs together.

And Jack's a very bright guy lyrically,

and so I started working with him.

He had become a disciplined

co-writer with Don Henley,

and when the Eagles broke up,

he just wanted to let go

and have some fun with music, you know?

So we were fiddling around with

some grooves, and one of us said,

"You belong to the city. "

And then we're going, "Oh, yeah, yeah.

That's it. "

Cos you belong to the city

You belong to the night...

You just show up and good things happen.

I make my living off

the evening news...

Henley's solo career was

really, really successful.

Going solo was the

scariest part of my life.

All she wants to do is dance, dance...

The whole MTV thing was a difficult

transition for me to make.

You know, the Eagles, at one point,

had been accused by some

critic of loitering onstage.

So it was difficult for

us loiterers to make

the transition to the world of

choreography and costume and acting.

She wants to party She

wants to get down...

Did I benefit from MTV? Yes, I did.

You know, I made a couple of

videos that won some MTV awards.

Nevertheless, I would just as soon

have skipped the whole thing,

because I considered myself,

first and foremost, a songwriter

and a recording artist.

I didn't really want to be an actor, too.

Nice, huh?

The guy who sold it to

me said it was a lemon.

But I'm telling you, it

may look like a cow,

but she runs like a stallion.

I always like to take a

good-bye look at America.

Just in case it's my last.

I acted in television, in movies.

I wasn't thinking about getting

back together with the Eagles.

The guy's got an attitude problem.

Yeah, well, he listens to me.

I can help you with that.

'Cameron would call me up and say,

'"Glenn, I gotta find somebody

that's not going to take'

"any sh*t off Tom Cruise, and

I think you're the guy. "

We have history, Dennis.

Oh, yeah. We got history all right, Jerry.

No, no, no. No, no, no. Dennis!

Dennis! Dennis! Don't! Don't!

Nobody on the road

Nobody on the beach

I feel it in the air

The summer's out of reach...

I signed Don Henley to Geffen Records.

Now, you might say, since

the Eagles sued me

at Asylum Records, why he did

come with me at Geffen Records?

Well, David uses the same pick up lines

every time he comes a-courtin'.

"You know how much I care

about you as an artist.

"You know what a big fan I am of yours. "

And so I bought it a second

time and I signed with him.

And then things started to fall apart.

I produced several hits, but I could

feel the support somehow waning.

Don got into arguments with

them over things like budgets,

videos, artwork, things like that.

I recall Don starting to

write letters to them

referring to them as

"Nickel and Dime Records".

When you feel like your label

is not supporting you,

it's completely deflating.

I used to call him "Golden Throat".

I thought he was an incredible singer.

But, by nature, he's a malcontent.

He's always been a malcontent.

And, you know, that's just life.

So I just said one day, "I'm not

going to record for you anymore.

"I'm leaving. " And so he

sued me for 30 million.

Happily ever after fails

We've been poisoned by these fairy tails

The lawyers dwell on small details...

My wife has MS, and they deposed her,

dragged her all the way from Texas

to Los Angeles to sit her down in

front of his attorneys and ask

her a bunch of pointless questions,

because she didn't know anything.

I thought that was really low.

I said to Irving over the Henley contract,

"I'd sooner die than let you f*** me.

"You'd better win this case. "

It was settled, you know, and that

was the end of that relationship.

Offer up your best defence

This is the end...

This is the end

Of the innocence.

I've realised now that we

have adult rock stars.

You don't have to give this up

when you turn 30 or 35 or 40.

I'll always make records and write songs.

I've got to do them.

Otherwise, I'd go nuts.

This is a tune that was written

with my new friend Mike Campbell

and my old friend John David Souther.

'When the band broke up,

'Glenn started writing

songs with Jack Tempchin.

'I guess the rift between Henley

'and Frey probably spread

to between Frey and me. '

Glenn and I had had some

outrageously fun times together.

And then Don and I did for a decade or so.

Been trying to get down

to the heart of the matter

But my will gets weak and

my thoughts seem to scatter

But I think it's about forgiveness

Forgiveness, even if, even if,

you don't love me anymore.

How have you changed as

musicians over the years,

both as a group and individually?

Well, your whole mandate

is just to improve.

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