Eagles

The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1971 by Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Bernie Leadon, and Randy Meisner. From 1975, they were joined by Joe Walsh, who left in 1980 but joined the reunion and is in the band today. With five number-one singles, six Grammy Awards, five American Music Awards, and six number one albums, the Eagles were one of the most successful musical acts of the 1970s. At the end of the 20th century, two of their albums, Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) and Hotel California, were ranked among the 20 best-selling albums in the United States according to the Recording Industry Association of America. Hotel California is ranked 37th in Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" and the band was ranked number 75 on the magazine's 2004 list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.

The Eagles are one of the world's best-selling bands of all time, having sold more than 150 million records[3]—100 million in the U.S. alone—including 42 million copies of Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) and 32 million copies of Hotel California. "Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975)" was the best selling album of the 20th century in the U.S. They are the fifth-highest-selling music act and the highest-selling American band in U.S. history.

On January 18, 2016, Frey died in New York City at the age of 67. According to the band's website, the causes of his death were rheumatoid arthritis, acute ulcerative colitis and pneumonia while recovering from intestinal surgery....(Read more

Links to Peel
Peel's attitude to the band appears to have been somewhat ambivalent: he played them with reasonable frequency up to and including Hotel California, declaring that he liked to sing along with Last Resort. Simon Mayo stated many years later that his first-ever listening to a track from Hotel California by the Eagles was on a Peel show in 1978. John Walters noted that "you were still playing things like – well, the Eagles of all people, ZZ Top, Bob Seger, a lot of the old folk musicians and so on." At some point, JP seems to have mentally bracketed them with other AOR acts and ceased playing their tracks: it was left to Bob Harris to support them. On 14 February 1979, he reads a list of acts students wanted to see in college in America, concluding with the Eagles, and added, "Aren't you glad you don't live over there?"

Festive Fifty Entries

 * NoneEagles - 'The Last Resort' (lyrics in description)

Sessions

 * None

Other Shows Played

 * 16 June 1972: 'Take It Easy (7")' (Asylum)
 * 01 August 1972: 'Take The Devil (LP-Eagles)' (Asylum)
 * 22 May 1973: 'Desperado (LP-Desperado)' (Asylum)
 * 07 June 1973: 'Doolin' Dalton (LP-Desperado)' (Asylum)
 * 01 December 1976: Hotel California LP, tracks unknown
 * 07 December 1976: 'Hotel California (LP-Hotel California)' (Asylum)
 * 13 July 1977: unknown
 * 04 August 1978: 'Last Resort (LP-Hotel California)' (Asylum) (JP: 'I particularly like singing along with it ... my falsetto there has to be heard to be believed; I think, properly harnessed, it could be used to cut steel.')