Eagles, The Story of: The Long Run

By Marc Shapiro

With their easy-going country rock, The Eagles epitomized the laid-back style of Southern California during the 1970s. They sold millions of records and their album California is widely regarded as a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0711948178
• ISBN13: 9780711948174
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Omnibus Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Good but with some obvious mistakes

The book is balanced between the early and later years of the band's career, unless other written about bands (like Nicholas Schaffner's A Saucerful Of Secrets, for example, that deal more with early Pink Floyd) yet contains some silly mistakes. One is the already mentioned about a quarrel in a 1980 gig. In a sentence of the book says it was between frey and Felder but in the next seems to involve Frey and Henley. Another flaw is quotting Don Felder appearing on the Eagles' maiden debut album, when everybody knows he didn't become a member until their third. Next mistake (though apparently unnoticed by most readers of the book) is on the back cover. Marc Shapiro declares the band reunited in 1994 to tour 'the stadiums of the USA'. Petty nationalism or what? THe HFO tour also went overseas so his quote is wrong. Besides that, the book is enjoyable and well documented, in my humble opinion, though it quottes a lot of the HFO documental. I still find strange that those still in this come-and-go group didn't bother collaborating with Dhapiro and only those who by then were ex members(Meisner and Leadon) did. The central section of the book feature a few pages full of photos of the band mostly in concert that will delight every Eagles fan. In a nutshell - an interesting but imperfect chornicle of the Eagles' career. I know nobody's perfect but the three mistakes listed above would have been so easy to correct since they're so obvious. 4/5.