Description: The Eagles came together in Los Angeles in 1972, a time when Americans were hungry for a different kind of music. Combining delicate harmonies and smooth, country-inspired rhythms in hits like "Lyin' Eyes" and "Peaceful Easy Feelin'", the Eagles created some of the most popular music of all time -- just as they were setting new standards for decadence, egomania, drug use, and intra-band strife.

Drawing on scores of interviews with band members as well as their friends, ex-wives and-lovers, handlers, roadies, and hangers-on, Marc Eliot reveals for the first time what life was really like inside this hugely popular but deeply troubled group. The book follows the Eagles from their early, idealistic days as Linda Ronstadt's backup band to their self-immolation amid million-dollar lawsuits, Lear-jet courtships, and debilitating cocaine habits -- with a coda on their "Hell Freezes Over" tour, the astounding comeback that made them the top-grossing live act of 1995 and 1996. This is a story about a band that embodied the excesses of the 1970s -- and that gave us, in their masterpiece Hotel California, the decade's unmistakable sound track.

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