![]() ![]() Frey worked as a recording session musician for Bob Segar and then he moved to California where he joined Longbranch Pennywhistle, a country rock/folk music group that featured John David Souther, a fellow Detroit transplant and they made one obscure self-titled album in 1969. When the Mushrooms split Frey joined the folk-rock group the Four of Us, then he formed two more Detroit teen bands, the Subterraneans and the Heavy Metal Kids. He was in several amateur and semi-professional Detroit-based bands in his late teens, including the Mushrooms, which became a major-local attraction on the local television show Robin Seymour’s Swinging Time, and he cut a single, that was produced by Bob Seger. ![]() Glenn Frey was from Michigan and he took up the guitar at the age of 16, after seeing the Beatles perform in 1964. Henley moved to Los Angeles from Texas with his band Shiloh to record an album produced by Kenny Rogers. This was in Linden, a small town in Texas and Kenny secured the group a record deal. In 1969, Kenny Rogers of The First Edition discovered Don Henley when he was playing in Shiloh. ![]() This five-man country-rock band took the name Shiloh. Henley and the Bowden’s soon regrouped, joined by journeyman steel guitar player Al Perkins and future country record producer Jim Ed Norman (who replaced Surratt as their keyboardist). Jerry Surratt died in a motorcycle accident in March of 1970. In 1967 they changed their name to The Felicity and Richard’ cousin Mike Bowden took over on the bass, while Richard switched to lead guitar. They released seven studio albums, two live albums, 10 compilation albums, as well as three video albums and 30 singles.ĭuring the ‘60’s, Henley was playing drums and singing in a group called Four Speeds with bassist Richard Bowden and keyboard/trumpet player Jerry Surratt. In the band’s first nine years together, they scored gold records for every album they released and delivered songs that changed the musical landscape. They took their distinctive version of country rock music that they bred in Los Angeles to international acclaim, and thanks to a combination of relentlessly catchy songs, an astute business plan and fortuitous timing, they found early fame as the epitome of California’s new country-rock movement. This group changed country and rock forever, because of their extraordinary blend of voices, and a wonderful harmony sound that they were able to produce. The Eagles were all perfectionists, they were all very talented and could play several different instruments and they wrote their own music and all of them could sing. In 1998, the Eagles were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Later members included Don Felder, Joe Walsh, and Timothy B. The original members were drummer Don Henley, guitarist and keyboard player Glenn Frey, Bernie Leadon playing guitar, banjo, steel guitar, mandolin and dobro, and Randy Meisner on bass. The Eagles rank as the biggest-selling American band of all time, having six Grammy Awards, and five American Music Awards. Although worldwide, Thriller is still the best-selling album of all time. ![]() The Eagles have the first, their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 selling five million more than Michael Jackson’s Thriller and the third Hotel California best-selling albums of all time in the U.S. The Eagles had five number one singles, 14 Top 40 hits, and four number one albums, and they are considered among the most successful recording artists of the 1970s. ![]()
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