Happy Birthday to Don Henley, who turned 70 today!!! Henley and the late Glenn Frey co-founded the Eagles in 1971, and are responsible for the band’s best loved songs, including “Hotel California,” “One Of These Nights,” “Desperado,” “Best Of My Love,” “Life In The Fast Lane,” “Tequila Sunrise,” “Take It To The Limit,” “New Kid In Town,” “The Long Run,” and many more. Following last week’s triumphant “Classic West” show at L.A.’s Dodger Stadium, the Eagles — once again featuring Deacon Frey and Vince Gill — will play on July 29th as part of the “Classic East” concert at New York’s Citi Field.
Variety reported on Monday night (July 17th) Henley performed with Jackson Browne at a private house party in Los Feliz, California which jointly benefitted Oceana, the world’s largest ocean conservation organization, and the Walden Woods Project. Among the high profile attendees were Sam Waterston, Ed Begley Jr., Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, Anjelica Huston, and Bill Murray, “who performed impassioned spoken-word renditions of George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein classics while accompanied by a quartet of orchestral musicians.”
Last year, the Eagles were saluted with the prestigious Kennedy Center Honor. In 2015, Don Henley released his latest solo album, Cass County, which marked his highest charting solo set to date — debuting on the Billboard 200 album charts at Number Three — a full four spots higher than his last album, 2000’s Inside Job. In addition to that, Cass County debuted at Number One on Billboard‘s Top Album Sales and Top Country Albums charts marking the first chart-topping album of Henley’s solo career, selling more than 87,000 units in its first week of release. Cass County features collaborations with Mick Jagger, Stevie Nicks, Merle Haggard, Dolly Parton, Martina McBride, and Miranda Lambert, among others.
