Glenn Frey:I think you have to make music for yourself and your friends and that’s what we did. But you also want to get it on the radio — you want people to here it. There was a combination of things going on. We were a commercial band by the nature of our sou...
One of the first songs Henley ever wrote with Frey almost didn't happen. Seems Frey "thought that it was a bit too obvious or too much of a cliche because of the drink that was so popular then," Henley recalled inThe Very Best Ofliner notes. "I said, 'No, look at it from a dif...
And in the northern European countries, pine trees (or firs) were decorated to celebrate the birth of Frey, the Norse god of the sun and fertility, at the end of the year. The tops of the trees were lit because in winter as the days were getting shorter. Northern people thought that ...