Each of the members has pursued a solo career, with Don Henley’s the most successful commercially and critically. In the ’90s, after what they considered a "14 year break", the band’s sound was frequently cited as an influence by young country stars, many of whom contributed tracks to the album Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles (#3, 1993), which won Album of the Year at the 1994 Country Music Associations's CMA Awards. That same year, the Eagles revival culminated in the band’s reunion tour and album.
The group originally coalesced from L.A.’s country-rock community. Before producer John Boylan assembled them as Linda Ronstadt’s backup band on her album Silk Purse (1970), the four original Eagles were already experienced professionals. Bernie Leadon had played in the Dillard and Clark Expedition and the Flying Burrito Brothers; Randy Meisner, with Poco and Rick Nelson’s Stone Canyon Band. Glenn Frey had played with various Detroit rock bands (including Bob Seger’s) and Longbranch Pennywhistle (with J.D. Souther, a sometime songwriting partner), and Henley had been with a transplanted Texas group, Shiloh. After working with Ronstadt, Henley and Frey decided to form the Eagles, recruiting Leadon and Meisner.
Intending to take the country rock of the Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers a step further toward hard rock, the Eagles recorded their first album with producer Glyn Johns in England. Take It Easy (#12, 1972), written by Frey and Jackson Browne, went gold shortly after its release, as did their debut album of the same name. (Another single, Witchy Woman, reached #9 that year.)
Desperado was a concept album with enough of a plot line to encourage rumors of a movie version. The LP yielded no major pop hits, but its title track, Desperado, a ballad penned by Henley and Frey, has become a classic rock standard covered by Linda Ronstadt among others.
With On the Border, the Eagles changed producers, bringing in Bill Szymczyk (who worked on all subsequent albums through 1982’s Greatest Hits, vol. 2) and adding Don Felder, who had recorded with Flow in Gainesville, Florida (and who once gave guitar lessons to another Gainesville native, Tom Petty), then became a session guitarist and studio engineer in New York, Boston, and L.A.
The increased emphasis on rock attracted more listeners - mid-’70s hits included Best of My Love (#1, 1975), One of These Nights (#1, 1975), Lyin’ Eyes (#2, 1975), and Take It to the Limit (#4, 1975) - but alienated Leadon. After One of These Nights, Leadon left to form the Bernie Leadon–Michael Georgiades Band, which released Natural Progressions in 1977. (Leadon went on to become a Nashville session musician, and in the ’90s formed Run-C&W, a jokester group who played a blend of country and R&B.)
Leadon was replaced by Joe Walsh, who had established himself with the James Gang and as a solo artist. His Eagles debut, Hotel California, was their third consecutive #1 album (the second was their record-breaking 1976 greatest-hits compilation). New Kid in Town (#1, 1976), the title cut Hotel California (#1, 1977), and Life in the Fast Lane (#11, 1977) spurred sales of more than 15 million copies worldwide.
Meisner left in 1977, replaced by Timothy B. Schmit, who had similarly replaced him in Poco. Meisner has released two solo albums, Randy Meisner (1978) and One More Song (1980). (In 1981, he toured with the Silveradoes; later, in 1990, Meisner reemerged in the group Black Tie, alongside Billy Swan and Bread’s James Griffin.) Henley and Frey sang backup on One More Song, and in the late ’70s they also appeared on albums by Bob Seger and Randy Newman. In 1981 Henley duetted with Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks on the #6 single Leather and Lace.
Between outside projects and legal entanglements, it took the Eagles two years and $1 million to make the multiplatinum LP The Long Run, their last album of all-new material. Parting hit singles included Heartache Tonight (#1, 1979), The Long Run (#8, 1980), and I Can’t Tell You Why (#8, 1980).
Walsh continued to release solo albums, though his biggest single to date has been 1978’s cheeky Life’s Been Good (#12). Felder and Schmit also put out their own albums and contributed songs to film soundtracks. Schmit’s second LP, Timothy B, included Boys Night Out (#25, 1987).
In 1982 Don Henley and Glenn Frey both embarked on solo careers. Frey charted with The One You Love (#15, 1982) and Sexy Girl (#20, 1984) before a movie proved his ticket into the Top 10: The Heat Is On, featured in Beverly Hills Cop, shot to #2 in 1985.
Frey followed this success by becoming an actor, making a guest appearance as a drug dealer on the popular TV series Miami Vice. The episode was based on a track from his album The Allnighter, Smuggler’s Blues, which consequently reached #12 (1985). Later in 1985, Frey’s You Belong to the City hit #2. While still dabbling in acting with roles in the short-lived TV series South of Sunset, the movie Jerry Maguire, and a guest spot on the Don Johnson post–Miami Vice series Nash Bridges in the ’90s, Frey also cofounded a music label, Mission Records, in 1997.
Ultimately, though, Henley was the ex-Eagle who garnered the greatest chart success, and the most critical acclaim as well. His Dirty Laundry (from his first solo effort, I Can’t Stand Still) made it to #3, but the 1985 album Building the Perfect Beast was to be his true arrival as solo hitmaker and respected singer/songwriter. The kickoff single, The Boys of Summer, went to #5 - supported by an evocative black-and-white video that fast became an MTV favourite - and earned Henley a Grammy for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male; the hits All She Wants to Do Is Dance (#9, 1985) and Sunset Grill (#22, 1985) followed. A third album, The End of the Innocence, produced a #8 title track, End of the Innocence, and the additional singles The Last Worthless Evening and The Heart of the Matter, which both hit #21. The LP won Henley another Grammy, in the same category as before.
In the early ’90s, Henley sought release from his Geffen Records contract, initiating a long and bitter legal dispute. After participating in the release of a solo best-of album in 1995, Henley was freed from his contract. Five years later, he released a studio album of all-new material, Inside Job (coproduced by former Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers drummer Stan Lynch), and embarked on a solo tour to support it. Henley had married for the first time in May 1995 and had three children before releasing Inside Job. This life-altering change for the longtime bachelour resulted in a new theme in his songwriting; several of Inside Job’s tracks were clearly about marriage and family, including the gentle ballad Taking You Home (#58 pop, #1 Adult Contemporary, 2000). Much of the rest of the album, however, still explored Henley’s cynicism toward the business world and the media.
In 1990 Henley founded the Walden Woods Project, dedicated to preserving historic lands around Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts (where Henry David Thoreau and others reflected and wrote), from corporate development. Among the singer’s various fund-raising means were holding charity concerts, featuring other top rock artists, and donating proceeds from some of his own recordings, including a reggae version of the Guys and Dolls standard “Sit Down You’re Rocking the Boat” (1993). In 1993 the Walden Woods Project got a big boost from Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles, coorganised by Henley and featuring Clint Black, Trisha Yearwood, Travis Tritt, and others.
In 1994, after years of fielding off reunion rumours, Henley, Frey, Walsh, Felder, and Schmit - who had appeared together in the video for Tritt’s version of Take It Easy - hit the road for a massively successful tour, the third-highest grossing concert tour of that year. The tour went on hiatus toward the end of 1994, due to Frey’s gastrointestinal surgery, but it continued in 1995. In November 1994, the band released Hell Freezes Over, which featured four new songs, including the singles Get Over It (#31, 1994), Love Will Keep Us Alive (#1 Adult Contemporary, 1994), Learn to Be Still (#15 Adult Contemporary, 1995), and 11 of the old hits culled from the band’s 1994 live appearance on MTV. Within months the reunion LP had sold more than 10 million copies and gone to #1 on the pop album chart.
In 1998 the Eagles were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. All seven members of the band performed together for the first time at the induction ceremony. The core members of the group - the ones who had recorded and toured together in the mid-’90s - reunited again for a few concerts at the end of 1999, including a New Year’s Eve show in L.A. A four-CD retrospective set, Eagles 1972–1999: Selected Works (#109, 2000), was released in November 2000.
Don Felder was fired from the band in 2000, leaving Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit as the remaining members of the band.
In 2007 they released a double album Long Road out of Eden, logically followed by a world tour, which was, regardless of people's opinion on the new album, a guaranteed sold-out event. The base line-up on this album is Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit. Also performing on the studio recording are Steuart Smith (guitar, keyboard, mandolin), Scott Crago (percussion) and Will Hollis (keyboard).
On January 18, 2016, it was announced that Glenn Frey had died at the age of 67 in New York City from complications arising from rheumatoid arthritis, colitis and pneumonia.
The Girl From Yesterday
Eagles Lyrics
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Or maybe it just hurt so bad, she couldn't cry
He packed his things, walked out the door and drove away
And she became the girl from yesterday
He took a plane across the sea to some foreign land
She stayed at home and tried so hard to understand
How someone who had been so close could be so far away
She doesn't know what's right, she doesn't know what's wrong
She only knows the pain that comes from waiting so long
And she doesn't count the teardrops that she's cried while he's away
Because she knows deep in her heart that he'll be back someday
The light's on in the window, she's waiting by the phone
Talking to a memory that's never coming home
She dreams of his returning and the things that he might say
But she'll always be the girl from yesterday
Yeah, she'll always be the girl from yesterday
The Eagles' poignant song "The Girl From Yesterday" is a poignant and elegiac piece about the pain and heartbreak of long-distance relationships. The lyrics describe a couple who must say goodbye, as the man leaves to travel across the sea to some foreign land, while the woman stays at home and tries to understand how someone who had been so close could be so far away.
As the song suggests, saying goodbye was not the hardest part for the woman; instead, the heartbreak was so intense that she could not even cry. She tries to cope with the pain of waiting for her loved one to come back home, daydreaming about his possible return and the heartfelt things that he might say to her. Meanwhile, she is painfully aware of the tears that she sheds while he is away, hoping against hope that he will return to her someday.
Overall, the song is a moving meditation on the passage of time and the human heart's resilience in the face of heartbreak and sadness. The Eagles' delicate, evocative melodies and poetic lyrics make this song a classic ballad that speaks to the deepest parts of the soul.
Line by Line Meaning
It wasn't really sad the way they said goodbye
The farewell wasn't sorrowful like others usually are.
Or maybe it just hurt so bad, she couldn't cry
Perhaps the goodbye was too painful for her to shed any tears.
He packed his things, walked out the door and drove away
He left after gathering his stuff and driving off.
And she became the girl from yesterday
And that's how she turned into the girl who still lives in the past.
He took a plane across the sea to some foreign land
He boarded a flight and went to a foreign country across the sea.
She stayed at home and tried so hard to understand
She remained at home and made every effort to comprehend the situation.
How someone who had been so close could be so far away
She couldn't fathom how a person who was once so close could become so distant.
And she became the girl from yesterday
And as a result, she became the girl who is still stuck in the past.
She doesn't know what's right, she doesn't know what's wrong
She's uncertain about what's right and what's wrong.
She only knows the pain that comes from waiting so long
All she knows is the agony of waiting for so long.
And she doesn't count the teardrops that she's cried while he's away
She doesn't bother to keep track of the tears she sheds while he's away.
Because she knows deep in her heart that he'll be back someday
Because she firmly believes in her heart that he'll return one day.
The light's on in the window, she's waiting by the phone
The light is still on in the window, and she's waiting by the phone.
Talking to a memory that's never coming home
She speaks to a memory of him that's never going to return.
She dreams of his returning and the things that he might say
She dreams of him coming back and saying all the things she wants to hear.
But she'll always be the girl from yesterday
However, she'll always be the girl who is still captured in the past.
Yeah, she'll always be the girl from yesterday
Yes, she'll always be that girl who still lives in the past.
Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: GLENN LEWIS FREY, JACK TEMPCHIN
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@jeanpierrerdc9651
Ce n’était pas vraiment triste la façon dont ils se sont dit au revoir
Ou peut-être que ça lui faisait tellement mal qu’elle ne pouvait pas pleurer
Il a emballé ses affaires, est sorti et est parti
Et elle est devenue la fille d’hier
Il a pris l’avion pour traverser la mer
Vers un pays étranger
Elle est restée à la maison et s’est efforcée de comprendre
Comment quelqu’un qui avait été si proche pouvait-il être si loin ?
Et elle est devenue la fille d’hier
Elle ne sait pas ce qui est juste
Elle ne sait pas ce qui ne va pas
Elle ne connaît que la douleur d’une attente aussi longue
Et elle ne compte pas les larmes
Qu’elle a pleuré pendant son absence
Parce qu’elle sait au fond de son cœur
Qu’il reviendra un jour
La lumière est allumée à la fenêtre, elle attend près du téléphone
Parler à un souvenir qui ne reviendra jamais à la maison
Elle rêve de son retour et des choses qu’il pourrait dire
Mais elle sera toujours la fille d’hier
Oui, elle sera toujours la fille d’hier
@ninglumluikham8437
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@retired_early
This song is just so sad and beautiful.
@ronnierodrigo6118
So cool this old ballad song
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I really like this song
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