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From mega-hits to fractured friendships, 'Life in the Fast Lane' details the Eagles' ride

No one from the Eagles approved “Life in the Fast Lane.”

Author Mick Wall makes that clear from the first words in his book subtitled as the band’s “Reckless Ride Down the Rock & Roll Highway.”

But that didn’t deter longtime British music journalist Wall – whose resume includes biographies about Guns N’ Roses, Bono, Led Zeppelin and Foo Fighters – from painstakingly researching more than 300 pages worth of details about a band that developed from Laurel Canyon troubadours to holding the highest certified album in Recording Industry Association of America history (“Their Greatest Hits: 1971-1975,” now 38 times platinum).

The breezy book (Diversion, on sale now) draws from Wall’s 40-plus years of archived interviews with members of the band, as well as other major players from that period (managers, record company executives, tour crew, concert promoters and “friends of friends”) and interviews in magazines ranging from Rolling Stone to Crawdaddy to Vanity Fair.

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The Eagles were formed in 1971 by guitarist/singer Glenn Frey, drummer/singer Don Henley, guitarist/singer Bernie Leadon, and bassist/singer Randy Meisner. The initial idea was Frey's; when signed to Asylum by David Geffen, he was advised to form a group - and he did. He had been hired by Linda Ronstadt and her manager John Boylan to get together a group to back Ronstadt on tour. With an eye towards his future band, he approached Henley to be her drummer. With Boylan's help, Frey was also able to interest Leadon and Meisner, two other members of her touring band. In 1971, they played together for the first time at Disneyland, backing Ronstadt. They gelled so well that before long, the four guys were in Geffen's offices with Leadon asking the fateful question: "Do you want us or don't you?"

Geffen signed them and hooked them up with famous producer Glyn Johns to record their first album Eagles (1972), which was done in London in less than three weeks. Johns guided them towards a country-rock sound that they would become famous for, producing the hits Take It Easy, Peac

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Eagles (band)

American rock band (formed 1971)

"The Eagles" redirects here. For other bands and other uses, see Eagles (disambiguation).

The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1971. With five number-one singles, six number-one albums, six Grammy Awards and five American Music Awards, the Eagles were one of the most successful musical acts of the 1970s in North America and are one of the world's best-selling music artists, having sold more than 200 million records worldwide,^[1] including 100 million sold in the US alone.^[2] They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 and were ranked number 75 on Rolling Stone's 2010 list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time".^[3] Founding members Glenn Frey (guitar, vocals), Don Henley (drums, vocals), Bernie Leadon (guitar, vocals), and Randy Meisner (bass guitar, vocals) had all been recruited by Linda Ronstadt as band members, some touring with her, and all playing on her self-titled third solo studio album (1972), before venturing out on their own