The Eagles‘ first reunion tour was a serious shock to music followers who by no means thought they might play collectively once more. However their subsequent step was extra in keeping with what each different band has accomplished in such a scenario. On Nov. 8, 1994, they launched Hell Freezes Over.
The preliminary finish of the Eagles got here with an epic meltdown at a present in Lengthy Seaside, Calif. – also known as the “Lengthy Evening at Improper Seaside” – on July 31, 1980, when Don Felder and Glenn Frey virtually got here to bodily blows. Frey took problem with Felder’s reply to Sen. Alan Cranston with, “You’re welcome … I suppose,” after Felder was thanked for agreeing to carry out a present in Cranton’s honor.
Although they stored it quiet for a lot of months afterward, the Eagles had been accomplished. Don Henley was categorical, citing the previous adage that the band would get again collectively “when hell freezes over.” Talking to People in 1982, Frey remarked: “I simply rule out the potential for placing the Eagles again collectively for a Misplaced Youth and Greed tour.”
Time, because the previous saying goes, can heal all wounds. 4 months after appearing in the video for Travis Tritt‘s cowl of “Take It Simple,” Henley, Frey, Felder, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit agreed to carry out stay collectively for the primary time in 14 years. A movie studio in Burbank, Calif., was booked and over two days in April 1994, the Eagles recorded an MTV particular, which resulted within the 11 stay tracks discovered on Hell Freezes Over.
The album contained contemporary takes on their classics, which included recasting “Lodge California” with acoustic guitars and Latin percussion. However the icing on the cake was the inclusion of 4 new studio songs: “Get Over It,” “Love Will Hold Us Alive,” “The Lady From Yesterday” and “Study to Be Nonetheless.”
Timed completely to coincide with the vacation season, the undertaking ended up being an enormous success, topping the chart for 2 weeks. In the end, Hell Freezes Over offered greater than 9 million copies, and the video, which had stay variations of the brand new songs, racked up an additional 800,000. “Get Over It,” “Love Will Hold Us Alive” and “Study to Be Nonetheless” obtained appreciable airplay at Prime 40, Mainstream Rock and Grownup Modern radio, and “The Lady From Yesterday” reached the nation charts.
The tour, which started a month after the particular was recorded, ended up changing into some of the notable and financially profitable within the historical past of rock music. Over three years, from 1994-96, the Eagles performed 160 reveals the world over, setting field workplace data at almost each cease alongside the best way.
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Here is a glance again at studio tasks recorded away from the band.
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