“I don’t think we’ll have to go out into the desert and take peyote and puke like we did in the old days – when we were the hip young LA cowboys”: How Don Henley and Glenn Frey remembered the Eagles’ wild years as they created the band’s swan song

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How do you follow an album as brilliant and successful as Hotel California? That was the dilemma facing the Eagles at the end of the ‘70s – and in the end, the pressure was too much.

The band’s 1979 album The Long Run arrived three years after Hotel California – an eternity by the standards of that time, when major acts regularly delivered an album every year.