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LoNG
eco
sinceourlastannualgathering
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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
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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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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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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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INBUCTEES
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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-
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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
ry75
andrg1g
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r\\'rnt\'->r-\'tn
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
added
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ballast
to the
Eagles' sound.
-,',.
rhe
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
-
--:
t:rers
of
Seventies
songcraft
asJackson
Browne
and
-
::r. :he
Eagles
upped the ante
and
then showed aroyal
::. r:rr tltth album of
newmaterial, the
masterfulHotel
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that album's
title
track,
they devised another
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::irhor.
this
one
forthe
decadent
malaise thathad
set-
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during the excessive
Seventies
(otherwise
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Decade").ITriterAnthony
DeCurtis insight-
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i
. :e I
C,tlliornia's
"depiction
of agorgeous paradise
:
i
:::,r
a
kind
of
sunny
hell of unsatis$ring
pleasure."
-::iist
\\
illiam Ruhlmann compared
the album to
"
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:.orh
sen-ing
to tell
"a
cautionary tale
about the
.
.
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r:-rocence
to experience
and disillusionment."
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the Eagles
had
T:shirts
made
up
that
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:::do
as
musicians:
soNG
PowER.
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.cd
in
the studio
over
a
long
period
of
time,
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released
in December r976
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it
had
been
a
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an
album of
musical commentary
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leapt to Number One by
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no
doubt
little
suspecting
that
it
r-,--
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best-se1ler.)
Obviously,
the
band
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of
con-rpilations).
Among other
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tothepopularlericon:"lifein
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::sr
1ane."
u-i-rich u-as the
title of
., r'---,
S,
,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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