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Eagles - Dark Desert Highway

How America’s Dream Band Turned into a Nightmare

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Eagles - Dark Desert Highway

By: Mick Wall
Narrated by: Jeff Harding
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'This could be heaven or this could be hell...'

So sings Don Henley on their biggest hit, 'Hotel California', and it is true that the Eagles story was one that blurred the ultimate Hollywood highs and subterranean LA lows beyond recognition.

The band that embodied the American dream with globe-straddling success, impossibly luxurious lives, almost supernatural talent also descended into nightmare with bloodletting betrayal, hate-filled hubris, the skeletons of perceived enemies, brutally discarded lovers and former band mates left unburied on the road behind them. The story of the Eagles is a truly gothic American fable: one of ultimate power and rivers of money; of sex and drugs at a time when both were the lingua-franca of sophisticated So-Cal living; of a band who sang of peaceful easy feelings in public while threatening to kill each other in private.

Now, for the first time, esteemed music biographer Mick Wall will provide the definitive insight into America's bestselling band of all time, a band who have sold more records than Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones combined, exploring their meteoric rise to fame and the hedonistic days of the 70s music scene in LA, when American music was taking over the world. Entertainment & Celebrities Music Celebrity Inspiring
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Shooting from the hip - a no holds barred account of the Henley and Fry control of a rock juggernaut, reflecting poorly on the drivers.

Beautifully jaundiced, amusing and cynical

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I liked the author’s knowing, cynical snark, Frankly it suits this rather sordid tale perfectly. Interesting insightful stories made me want to revisit a bit of the magic.
But Cocaine and Hugh Bris will always be a downer however high you fly.

A good story well told

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The first Eagles track I remember was One of These Nights, which came out when I was 10 or 11. I wasn't into glam rock and actually thought that it was this band from the States that was properly glamorous. I used to chuckle at the snootiness and pretentiousness that passed for music 'journalism' back in the day. If only they could light up a joint and relax to the mellow sounds of the Eagles they would have been far less uptight thought I. Probably not a massive amount of new material here but it's more about the ride, which Jeff Harding narrates with gusto. F*ck yeah!🤣

Entertaining listen

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Thoroughly entertaining romp through the Eagles backstory.
Initially I was a little miffed, not to hear Mick reading this himself, in his inimitable style but in actualitae, it soars even higher when given an American accent.
A loquacious tour de force…🙂

Mick Wall for President

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I suspect a touch of hyperbole + sensationism for effect. Still captured an era, taut, with a strong narrative drive, + is expressively written.

Comprehensive history by a talented writer.

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