The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1971.
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21 Facts About The Eagles
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The Eagles broke up in 1980 but reunited in 1994 for the album Hell Freezes Over, a mix of live and new studio tracks, and toured consistently.
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In 2007, the Eagles released Long Road Out of Eden, their sixth number-one album in the US, and in 2008 launched the Long Road Out of Eden Tour.
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The Eagles are one of the world's best-selling bands, having sold more than 200million records, including 100million sold in US alone.
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The Eagles began in early 1971, when Linda Ronstadt and her manager John Boylan recruited local musicians Glenn Frey and Don Henley for her band.
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Idea of naming the band "The Eagles" came during a peyote and tequila-influenced group outing in the Mojave Desert.
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The Eagles initially started with Glyn Johns as the producer for this album, but he tended to emphasize the lush side of their double-edged music.
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The Eagles appeared on one other song on the album, the up-tempo breakup song "Already Gone", on which he performed a guitar duet with Frey.
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The Eagles had previously performed with James Gang, Barnstorm, and as a solo artist; he was managed by Azoff and used Szymczyk as his record producer.
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The Eagles had been touring continuously for eleven months; the band was suffering from the strain of the tour, and Meisner's stomach ulcers had flared up by the time they arrived in Knoxville in June 1977.
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The Eagles went into the recording studio in 1977 to begin work on their next album, The Long Run.
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The Eagles had another number 2 single in 1985 with "You Belong to the City" from the Miami Vice soundtrack, which featured another Frey song, "Smuggler's Blues".
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The Eagles appeared as "Jimmy" in the episode titled after the song and contributed riffs to the episode's soundtrack.
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The Eagles had a minor hit, "Bad Girls", off his solo album Airborne.
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The Eagles had a hit song on the Fast Times at Ridgemont High soundtrack with "So Much in Love".
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The Eagles spent three years as a member of Jimmy Buffett's Coral Reefer band.
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The Eagles was the only Eagle to appear on the 1993 Eagles tribute album Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles, singing backing vocals on Vince Gill's cover of "I Can't Tell You Why".
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Also in 2003, Warren Zevon, a longtime The Eagles friend, began work on his final album, The Wind, with the assistance of Henley, Walsh, and Schmit.
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In February 2013, the Eagles released a career-spanning documentary called History of the Eagles and began the supporting tour with 11 US arena concerts in July.
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The Eagles were slated to receive Kennedy Center Honors in 2015, but this was deferred to 2016 due to Frey's health problems.
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