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- Hotel California’ (1976) The Eagles' greatest hit builds to an epic guitar jam but starts as a wounded morality play about a hedonistic culture in a Hell of its own making where the night man tells Don Henley, "You can check out any time you like but you can never leave."
- Take it Easy’ (1972) This carefree tribute to the spoils of the sexual revolution made a solid case for standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, while announcing the arrival of the Eagles as their debut single, hitting No. 12 on Billboard’s Hot 100.
- Take it to the Limit’ (1975) A majestic waltz with a soulful lead vocal from Meisner, soaring harmonies and a tasteful string arrangement, "Take it to the Limit” peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 as the third and final single from “One of These Nights.”
- Desperado’ (1973) This mournful cowboy ballad was the melancholy highlight of their second album, also titled “Desperado,” and remains one of their most beloved songs, despite the mystifying decision in 1973 not to make it a single.
- "Hotel California" From: Hotel California(1976) Turns out this song's off-the-cuff brilliance wasn't so off-the-cuff, after all. The concluding twin-guitar solo on "Hotel California" has moved into classic-rock lore, representing the most famous in a series of fiery collaborations between Don Felder and recently installed new member Joe Walsh.
- "Take It Easy" From: Eagles(1972) The opening track on the Eagles' first album perfectly sums up their early country-rock aesthetic, so much so that Glenn Frey said its first few jangly guitar strums "felt like an announcement, 'And now ...
- "One of These Nights" From: One of These Nights(1975) The goal was to break the ballad template, stirring in contemporary R&B sounds and a sneaky lyric that pulls no punches.
- "Take It to the Limit" From: One of These Nights(1975) As this became Eagles' highest charting single yet, Meisner found himself under crushing pressure to hit the song's heart-rending high note onstage night after night.
- "Hotel California" (1976) Photo : Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images. “We were all middle-class kids from the Midwest,” Don Henley said. “‘Hotel California’ was our interpretation of the high life in Los Angeles.”
- "Take It Easy" (1972) Photo : Gijsbert Hanekroot/Getty Images. The song that became the Eagles’ national anthem was written by Jackson Browne on a road trip that took him through Utah and Arizona.
- "Desperado" (1973) Photo : GAB Archive/Redferns/Getty Images. “Desperado” is the stunning title track of the Eagles’ second album, an imagined Western – with a dramatically cinematic orchestral arrangement and lyrics about coming to terms with your wild side.
- "Peaceful Easy Feeling" (1972) Photo : Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns/Getty Images. The third hit single from the Eagles’ debut was their first collaboration with songwriter Jack Tempchin, who’d write several songs with the band as well as Frey’s 1985 solo hit “You Belong to the City.”
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