During the mid-70s, I was studying at UST High School, together with my best friends like Bien Perez, Bob Novales, Bong Lopez, Cere Castaneda, Roy Roque, and many others.
We were listening to music from “Saturday Night Fever” and “Grease.” And “Hotel California” which would blast out from jeeps and provincial buses in Metro Manila.
The Eagles were among the most successful recording artists of the 1970s. Their best-selling studio album Hotel California is rated as the 37th album in the Rolling Stone list "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" and the band was ranked #75 on Rolling Stone's 2004 list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time
They “broke” up in 1980 and Glen Fry’s music was heard on “Miami Vice.” I could here it now and see Sonny Burnett aka Sonny Crockett driving fast in his Ferrari. “You belong to the city.”
In 1994, they got back together for “Hell Freezes Over” and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.
Don Henley has recently announced a studio album is coming out on October 30, 2007. This will be the first studio album by the band in 28 years. Guitarist Joe Walsh says the group plan to tour extensively after the release of the new album.
"We're just finishing vocals and mixing it. We're all finally signing off on it," Walsh told Billboard.com All of the band members -- Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Timothy B. Schmit and Walsh -- wrote songs for the album, which he said "go in some really, really new, different directions. It's hard to compare to anything that I hear out there now."
Am sure many parents in their 40s would be among the first to buy this new album a couple of months from now. I would.
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