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Discography
Solo Albums
I Can't Stand Still (1982)
Building the Perfect Beast (1984)
End of the Innocence (1989)
Actual Miles (1995)
Inside Job (2000)
Eagles Albums
Eagles (1972)
Desperado (1973)
On the Border (1974)
One of These Nights (1975)
Greatest Hits (1976)
Hotel California (1976)
The Long Run (1979)
Eagles Live (1980)
Greatest Hits: Vol. 2 (1982)
Hell Freezes Over (1994)
Selected Works (2000)
Very Best (2003)
Long Road Out of Eden (2007)
Pre-Eagles albums
Shiloh (1970)
Soundtrack songs
Love Rules (1982)
She's On the Zoom (1985)
Who Owns This Place (1986)
Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boat (1992)
Bless the Children of the World (1993)
The Man (1993)
Come Rain or Come Shine (1995)
Through Your Hands (1996)
Can Love Stand the Test (2002)
Straight to the Heart of Love (2002)
Duets
Leather and Lace (1981)
Watching TV (1992)
Walkaway Joe (1992)
Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough (1992)
Shakey Ground (1993)
Passin' Through (2000)
Inside Out (2001)
It's So Easy (2002)
Calling Me (2006)
What Makes the Irish Heart Beat (2006)
Фильмы
Filmography
Solo Concert Videos
MTV Unplugged (1989)
VH1 Storytellers (2000)
Live Inside Job (2000)
Eagles Concert Videos
Hell Freezes Over (1994)
Farewell 1 Tour: Live in Melbourne (2005)
ТВ
As himself
Just Shoot Me! (2000)
Книги
Bibliography
Editor and Contributor
Heaven Is Under Our Feet (1991)
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Don Henley has been one of the most recognizable voices in the world of music for over 30 years, both as a member of the Eagles and as a solo artist. However, it is not only the sound of the voice, but the words that he has written and sung over the years, that remain with listeners long after each song is over.
That famous voice was nurtured by listening to AM radio over long restless nights in Linden, a small East Texas town. Donald Hugh Henley, the only child of a NAPA auto parts dealer Con Junell (C. J.) Henley and his schoolteacher wife, Hughlene, was born July 22, 1947 in Gilmer, Texas, and raised in nearby Linden. Linden boasts a rich musical history--blues guitar great T-Bone Walker and ragtime composer Scott Joplin were also born there---so it has contributed greatly to what fellow Eagle founder Glenn Frey calls “the fertilizer of his genius.”
“Music changed my life,” Don wrote in his introduction to Jim Ladd’s book, Radio Waves. ”Radio, the vehicle for that music, was my connection to the world that lay outside my small hometown. During those difficult, adolescent years, it was a friend in the dark; a messenger to a lover; a magic carpet; a ticket out.”
He owes a measure of his success to a quirk of fate: after watching Don struggling to play football at Linden-Kildare High School—a difficult task due to his relatively small build, in comparison to the other football players--his football coach tactfully suggested that he quit the team. He decided to join the high school band instead. He began as a trombone player, but since he was always drumming on his textbooks, his band teacher moved him into the drum section, and the rest is history. Within a short time, Don and childhood buddies Richard Bowden and Jerry Surratt formed a garage band called The Four Speeds. “No one really wanted to sing, so we drew names and I ended up being the reluctant vocalist,” Don recalled.
After graduating from high school in 1965, he joined Richard at Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdoches, and then a year later the pair transferred to North Texas State University in Denton. They were still playing in their band, which would go through several personnel and name changes over the next few years. When Jim Ed Norman (currently President of Warner/Reprise Nashville) and Richard’s cousin Mike Bowden joined the band, they changed the name to Felicity. It was this incarnation that caught the attention of Kenny Rogers, who they met while shopping one afternoon in a boutique in Dallas. They asked Rogers, then a Top 40 recording artist with The First Edition, to come hear the band play. According to Bowden, Rogers uttered the magic words: "I think I can help you boys out. Get your stuff together and come to LA. You can stay in my house, and go in the studio and cut a single." “Jennifer," the 45 co-written by Don Henley and Jerry Surratt, gave the band their first small taste of success.
When pedal steel guitarist Al Perkins joined the band, they became known as Shiloh, and recorded a self-titled album on Amos Records. Don and the other members of Shiloh became regulars at LA's hottest nightspot, the Troubadour, where they met Glenn Frey and his Longbranch-Pennywhistle partner J. D. Souther, along with Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, and a host of other talented musicians. Linda Ronstadt had asked Glenn to be in her backup band and he extended the invitation to Don as well: “A friend of mine & I are thinking about starting a band together. In the meantime, do you want to go on the road with Linda Ronstadt and make 200 bucks a week?" It was the beginning of a creative partnership that endures to this day.
In 1971, Glenn and Don left Ronstadt and formed the Eagles, along with Randy Meisner and Bernie Leadon, who had been with Poco and the Flying Burrito Brothers, respectively. Each band member contributed to the band’s unique sound, a blend of country, folk, R&B, rock and pop.
The Eagles' first single "Take It Easy," co-written by Glenn Frey and Jackson Browne, soared into the Top 20. Other hits quickly followed, including “Witchy Woman,” the first song where Don sang lead. The Eagles would go on to become one of the most creatively and commercially successful bands of all time. Their albums, including Desperado, On the Border, One of These Nights, Hotel California, and The Long Run, would go on to sell over 100 million copies worldwide. In the course of the 1970s, the group won four Grammy awards, topped the album charts five times and became one of the top concert draws. They were the first band in history to sell over 10 million copies of two separate albums – Hotel California and Greatest Hits 1971-1975, the best selling album of all time.
As the Eagles’ unprecedented success continued, the band itself began to slowly disintegrate. The pressure to tour continuously while still producing new material began to take its toll. The band went through several personnel changes as they developed a harder rock edge over the years: Bernie Leadon and Randy Meisner departed, and new members Don Felder, Joe Walsh, and Timothy B. Schmit came on board. Still, personal and creative difficulties continued to plague the band. Everything came to a head in 1980 at a benefit for Senator Alan Cranston, when a confrontation between Glenn and Don Felder resulted in a call from Glenn to Don Henley saying, “It’s over.”
Although he admitted he was devastated, Don regrouped and eventually began writing music again with a host of talented collaborators including Danny Kortchmar, Bruce Hornsby and old friend J.D. Souther. In 1982, Don released his debut solo album, I Can’t Stand Still, featuring the hit single "Dirty Laundry," a wry commentary on news reporting set to an infectious driving beat. He followed that impressive debut with the 1984 release of Building The Perfect Beast, which produced the hit singles “All She Wants To Do Is Dance," "Not Enough Love In The World, " "Sunset Grill," and "The Boys Of Summer." Later that year, he received Grammy nominations for Record, Song and Producer of the Year and won the award for Best Rock Vocal (Male) for "The Boys of Summer."
He finished the decade with the 1989 release of The End of the Innocence, which yielded more hits, including "The Heart of the Matter," "The Last Worthless Evening," “New York Minute,” and the title track, which garnered another Best Rock Vocal Grammy. The deeply personal nature of "Heart of the Matter" struck an emotional chord with legions of fans: “I have a collection of the most amazing letters about that song from people all over the world that I treasure. I will keep them forever.”
In 1990, home from touring, Don saw a television report stating that Walden Woods, where Henry David Thoreau had lived while writing Walden, was under threat by real estate developers. The works of Thoreau and his mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson, had a profound impact on Don in school. He immediately became involved in the effort to save the area known as the birthplace of the American environmental movement by founding The Walden Woods Project. “Thoreau’s writing struck me like a thunderbolt. I loved Emerson, too, and his essay, 'Self-Reliance,' was instrumental in giving me the courage to become a songwriter,” Don wrote in the introduction to the book Heaven is Under Our Feet, a collection of environmental essays he compiled and co-edited with writer Dave Marsh. Proceeds from the book along with a number of benefit concerts he organized were dedicated to the support of the Walden Woods Project.
In 1993, Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles, an country music tribute, generated over 3 million dollars for the Walden Woods Project and went on to be named 1994’s "Album of the Year" by the Country Music Association. The album was responsible for finally reuniting the Eagles. Travis Tritt recorded "Take It Easy" for the album and he asked Don, Glenn, Joe, Timothy and Don Felder to appear in the video. It was the first time they had all been together since the breakup. Shortly thereafter, Don, Glenn, Joe, and manager Irving Azoff met in Aspen, Colorado to discuss the possibility of a reunion. There, it was decided that the Eagles would reunite for an album and a tour entitled "Hell Freezes Over” after a comment Don had famously made years earlier.
After the tour for Hell Freezes Over was completed in 1995, Don married in his longtime girlfriend Sharon Summerall of Dallas. The lavish wedding celebration was attended by many of Don’s longtime friends. Don sang “Come Rain or Come Shine” and “In My Life” to his bride. “Everybody performed—Jackson Browne, Sting, Billy Joel, John Fogerty, Glenn Frey, J. D. Souther, Bruce Hornsby, Sheryl Crow, Tony Bennett. It was really touching,” he said later. The couple now have three children, Annabel, Will, and Sophie.
Don continued to tour with the Eagles, and the band celebrated the new millennium by performing in Los Angeles on December 31, 1999. Their concert was released on Selected Works: 1972-1999 in 2000. In 2003, the Eagles released The Very Best of the Eagles, including a new single, “Hole in the World,” written by Don and Glenn after the September 11 attacks. The album debuted at number three on Billboard and eventually gained triple platinum status.
After waiting out a dispute with his recording company, Don signed to another label, Warner, and released Inside Job in 2000. The new album reaffirmed his status as one of music's most articulate and respected voices. A solo tour and a concert recorded in 2000 in Dallas followed the album’s release. Inside Job went on to be nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album. "Taking You Home" was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance and "Workin' It" was nominated for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance.
Don’s album represented not only his activism and environmental concerns in songs such as “Goodbye to a River,” but songs such as “Taking You Home” and “Annabel” clearly showed that marriage and becoming a parent had a tremendous impact his music. "Kids have a way of reminding us of some good and simple things we have forgotten," he said, adding that his children are the best gifts that he has ever received, and they have changed his life enormously.
In 1993, Don co-founded the non-profit Caddo Lake Institute, a wetland science research institute to benefit environmental education programs both in the public school system and in colleges and universities in his native East Texas. Then in 2000, Don founded the Recording Artists’ Coalition along with Sheryl Crow, Alanis Morisette, and a number of other top featured recording artists. The purpose of the RAC is to protect musicians’ rights against the common music industry business practices. He testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary in 2001 and the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transporation in 2003. Throughout his life he continues to support a wide range of causes, including the passage of clean water legislation in California, the preservation of wildlife habitat and open space in Los Angeles’ Santa Monica Mountains, and restoration in his hometown of Linden, Texas. He has also participated in numerous other fundraising efforts including Farm Aid, The Race to Erase MS, The Rhythm and Blues Foundation and The Rainforest Foundation.
Don was formally recognized for his range of charitable work, as well as his efforts on behalf of artists' rights, when he was named the 2007 MusiCares Person of the Year by the MusiCares Foundation, an organization founded to help provide assistance for music industry professionals in times of need. The gala event featured performances by the Dixie Chicks, Michael McDonald, Trisha Yearwood, Seal, and Shawn Colvin. Before thanking the foundation and performing a short set of his hits, Don led the audience in a sing-along of Happy Birthday to his son, Will, who celebrated his 9th birthday that night.
In 2005, the Eagles released Farewell 1 Tour-Live from Melborne, a DVD featuring two new songs: the Frey-penned “No More Cloudy Days” and Walsh's "One Day at a Time." The next year, the Eagles released a teaser to their long-awaited new album: a special edition of the Farewell 1 DVD including a bonus CD with a studio version of "No More Cloudy Days" plus two new songs, "Fast Company" and "Do Something.” In 2007, they released a new version of “How Long” as their first single. Written by J.D. Souther, it is a song they originally performed as part of their live sets in the 1970s.
The Eagles’ new CD Long Road Out of Eden, was released to widespread acclaim in 2007. The album was available in the U.S. exclusively through the band’s website, Walmart, and Sam’s Club. It debuted at No. 1 in the U.S. and became their third studio album, and seventh release overall, to be certified at least seven times platinum. They won their fifth Grammy in 2008 for “How Long” in the category Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. They launched their world tour in London. According to Nielsen’s 2007 year-end report, Long Road Out of Eden was named the top selling album of all new records and the best selling album in 2007 by a group in the United States.
The haunting title track, written by Don, Glenn and Timothy Schmit, envelops references to America’s excesses and the war in Iraq in beautifully evocative lyrics. Rockers like “Somebody” are paired with the a-cappella "No More Walks in the Wood," which came from a poem by John Hollander.
Don’s ballad "Waiting in the Weeds," also written with Steuart Smith, is a masterfully layered song that not only deals with themes of ageing and lost love, but the line “I've been biding time with crows and sparrows while peacocks prance and strut upon the stage” reveals what it must be like to write songs for over three decades as a member of one of the world's most successful rock bands. Don sums it up this way: " ‘Waiting in the Weeds' is about life's cycles, and you could say it makes reference to The Eagles. It's about having faith that your time will come around again and quality will prevail."
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Hi - Thanks so much for your friendship – Hope that you enjoy my music –Here’s my website – www.joe-calderone.com - If you get a chance please sign my Guestbook while you’re there - Have a great weekend – Joe
There was once a young man who, in his youth, professed his desire to become a great writer.
When asked to define "great" he said, "I want to write stuff that the whole world will read, stuff that people will react to on a truly emotional level, stuff that will make them scream, cry, howl in pain and anger!"
He now works for Microsoft, writing error messages...
Thanks for the add ! I went to my first Eagles concert Wednesday night in Charlotte, IT WAS THE BEST SHOW I HAVE EVER SEEN, IT WAS GREAT. THEY ALL STILL HAVE IT.......
This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are vast numbers, not only in this island but in every land, who will render faithful service in this war but whose names will never be known, whose deeds will never be recorded. This is a war of the Unknown Warriors; but let all strive without failing in faith or in duty, and the dark curse of Hitler will be lifted from our age."
—BBC Broadcast, London, 14 July 1940 ;;.
Today was a day when we remembered many known and unknown heroes who suffered tremendously so that we could enjoy a little bit. One of those were my parents, and your parents too. In a memory of the Unknown Soldier is a song dedicated to my parents, who could be your parents, and to your parents who could be my parents. Unfortunately those Winston Churchill words cited in the beginning of this message still ring true today. But fortunately , We can still sing.
He owes a measure of his success to a quirk of fate: after watching Don struggling to play football at Linden-Kildare High School—a difficult task due to his relatively small build, in comparison to the other football players--his football coach tactfully suggested that he quit the team. He decided to join the high school band instead. He began as a trombone player, but since he was always drumming on his textbooks, his band teacher moved him into the drum section, and the rest is history. Within a short time, Don and childhood buddies Richard Bowden and Jerry Surratt formed a garage band called The Four Speeds. “No one really wanted to sing, so we drew names and I ended up being the reluctant vocalist,” Don recalled.
The Eagles' first single "Take It Easy," co-written by Glenn Frey and Jackson Browne, soared into the Top 20. Other hits quickly followed, including “Witchy Woman,” the first song where Don sang lead. The Eagles would go on to become one of the most creatively and commercially successful bands of all time. Their albums, including Desperado, On the Border, One of These Nights, Hotel California, and The Long Run, would go on to sell over 100 million copies worldwide. In the course of the 1970s, the group won four Grammy awards, topped the album charts five times and became one of the top concert draws. They were the first band in history to sell over 10 million copies of two separate albums – Hotel California and Greatest Hits 1971-1975, the best selling album of all time.
He finished the decade with the 1989 release of The End of the Innocence, which yielded more hits, including "The Heart of the Matter," "The Last Worthless Evening," “New York Minute,” and the title track, which garnered another Best Rock Vocal Grammy. The deeply personal nature of "Heart of the Matter" struck an emotional chord with legions of fans: “I have a collection of the most amazing letters about that song from people all over the world that I treasure. I will keep them forever.”
After the tour for Hell Freezes Over was completed in 1995, Don married in his longtime girlfriend Sharon Summerall of Dallas. The lavish wedding celebration was attended by many of Don’s longtime friends. Don sang “Come Rain or Come Shine” and “In My Life” to his bride. “Everybody performed—Jackson Browne, Sting, Billy Joel, John Fogerty, Glenn Frey, J. D. Souther, Bruce Hornsby, Sheryl Crow, Tony Bennett. It was really touching,” he said later. The couple now have three children, Annabel, Will, and Sophie.
In 1993, Don co-founded the non-profit Caddo Lake Institute, a wetland science research institute to benefit environmental education programs both in the public school system and in colleges and universities in his native East Texas. Then in 2000, Don founded the Recording Artists’ Coalition along with Sheryl Crow, Alanis Morisette, and a number of other top featured recording artists. The purpose of the RAC is to protect musicians’ rights against the common music industry business practices. He testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary in 2001 and the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transporation in 2003. Throughout his life he continues to support a wide range of causes, including the passage of clean water legislation in California, the preservation of wildlife habitat and open space in Los Angeles’ Santa Monica Mountains, and restoration in his hometown of Linden, Texas. He has also participated in numerous other fundraising efforts including Farm Aid, The Race to Erase MS, The Rhythm and Blues Foundation and The Rainforest Foundation.
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