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Jul 22, 2023 · For someone who has aged as gracefully as Henley, it’s a song that fits hit like a glove. From 'The Boys of Summer' to 'The End of The Innocence', here are all the best songs from the solo career of Eagles drummer and singer Don Henley.
Sep 4, 2021 · Here is a collection of Greatest Hits and Tracks from Don Henley, solo.
May 6, 2024 · According to Don Henley, the co-founder of the Eagles and the lead vocalist of “You Are Not Alone,” the song was inspired by his experience of losing both of his parents. Henley said, “I thought of all the people who have lost loved ones, and how they must feel like they’re on an island.”
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- "The Boys of Summer" From: 'Building the Perfect Beast' (1984) One of the best-ever coming-of-age songs may or may not be autobiographical. But how can one read lyrics like "Don't look back, you can never look back" and not think of the Eagles breakup?
- "The End of the Innocence" From: 'The End of the Innocence' (1989) One of Henley's most poignant tracks also happens to be one of his strongest musical statements.
- "All She Wants to Do Is Dance" From: 'Building the Perfect Beast' (1984) The keyboards on the hit "All She Wants to Do Is Dance" can be a little overbearing at times.
- "Not Enough Love in the World" From: 'Building the Perfect Beast' (1984) The bulk of Building the Perfect Beast is centered on keyboards as lead instrument.
- “Johnny Can’T Read”
- “Dirty Laundry”
- “The Boys of Summer”
- “Sunset Grill”
- “Who Owns This Place?”
- “I Will Not Go Quietly”
- “The Heart of The Matter”
- “The Garden of Allah”
- “Taking You Home”
- “The Brand New Tennessee Waltz”
The first single from Don Henley’s solo debut, this song served notice that his solo career would not be Eagles redux. Its jittery New Wave sound was a lot closer to The Cars. It also signaled that solo Henley would be about hard-hitting social commentary, here taking on the idea of students getting an academic pass if they’re good at sports. Thoug...
Don Henley’s breakthrough solo song continued the modern New Wave sound, even with two other Eagles (Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit) lending a hand. It takes on a topic he knew a few things about; namely tabloids and their appetite for celebrity blood. Suffice to say, he got even, but the song was right on target about where journalism was headed....
This album and its follow-up were the high-water mark of solo Don Henley, spawning seven Top 40 hits between them. This is a contender for the quintessential Henley song, full of sharp observations and drenched in California sunshine. With a vocal performance for the ages, it pledges unchanging love during changing times. Though the song began life...
The fourth and last single from Perfect Beastdidn’t do as well chart-wise as the rest, being a little more epic and challenging. But it’s as close as you’ll get to a “Hotel California” follow-up, visiting a dead-end bar in roughly the same neighborhood. The tune is perfectly haunting, and the story takes a surprise turn at the end: The narrator may...
There aren’t a lot of stray Don Henley songs but here’s a good one that fell through the cracks. He wrote it for the 1986 Scorsese film, where it appeared alongside fresh tracks by Mark Knopfler, Eric Clapton, and others. Henley’s tune echoes the dark mood of the film. Like many of the 80s tracks he produced with Danny Kortchmar, it has a sleek sou...
A contender for the heaviest rock song in Don Henley’s catalogue, this is also one of the deep cuts that should have been a single. The six-minute track boasts a sweeping lyric, in part about holding onto love and getting the hell out of a small town, but also about Henley defending his own space in the rock landscape. The studio band (mostly an ov...
After all these heavy songs, Don Henley calls on his ability to break hearts with a love ballad. He came up with a gem to close the third album, and recorded it in old-school style: No big synths or whomping drums here, just a guitar-based sound that suits the emotive vocal. But if the music harks back to younger days, the lyric is entirely grown-u...
One of three new tracks on the Actual Miles compilation, this dark-humored song finds Don Henley meeting up with the Devil, who admires Henley’s car and professes to be pretty satisfied with the direction consumer society has gone. The setting is appropriately a once-glamorous, long-demolished Sunset Boulevard hotel (which really existed). This was...
After an eleven-year break and an Eagles’ reunion, it was a less spiky Don Henley who showed up on the next solo album. Inside Jobis warm and melodic for the most part, gathering his longtime musical partners together once more. “Taking You Home” was new territory for Henley: a love song with a happy ending. Accordingly, it topped the adult-contemp...
Since Don Henley helped popularize country-rock with the Eagles, it’s surprising that it took until 2015 for him to make a full-fledged country album. Cass Countyproved to be a star-studded affair, with Henley doing new and classic tunes in the hallowed company of Merle Haggard, Dolly Parton, and others. One of its sweetest moments can be found on ...
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The End of the Innocence is the third solo studio album by Don Henley, the co-lead vocalist and drummer for the Eagles. The album was released in 1989, on Geffen Records, and was his last release on that label.
Mar 20, 2024 · The early 80s were a time of uncertainty for Don Henley. “I felt tremendous pressure, not to measure up to the success of the Eagles, but simply to write and record without them,” he tells Classic Rock, in an exclusive interview. “Having a solo career was something I’d never considered. I felt unmoored, adrift.”.
