If you can say that you wrote Desperado or Hotel California, well, you can pretty much do a mic drop when it comes to musical accomplishments in life.
That's where Glenn Frey and The Eagles belong, game-changers in the music industry.
If you've listened to just about any radio station since the 1970s, odds are good that you've heard their music. Pop music. Classic Rock. Even Country.
Eagles songs, or covers by other artists, are played on those stations every day.
And that's a nice comforting thing to hear on the radio.
Once upon a time I was asked who my favorite band of all-time was, and I answered The Eagles.
There were some snickering as typical answers are supposed to be The Beatles, The Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Who, blah blah blah
Apparently if you didn't start in the 60s, you aren't eligible to be a greatest of all-time.
Well, I disagree with that assessment. The Eagles were an amazing band, and after they broke up, they all went on to varying degrees of solo success.
I'm sure if we counted the hits from some of those bands to those of The Eagles, the tally would be closer than you might think at first glance.
Which brings us to the 80s, and I began listening to Top 40 music and was hearing classic Eagles songs while Don Henley and Glenn Frey were bringing their solo efforts to the airwaves.
With hits in Beverly Hills Cop and Miami Vice, Frey proved he was more than just the Garfunkel of the Don Henley/Glenn Frey collaboration.
Imagine the surprise when the Eagles reunited nearly 15 years later and buried their creative hatchets. Embarking on worldwide farewell tours that seemingly never ended, the guys sounded just as good decades removed from the 70s as they did in their prime.
And while they could have easily just played their greatest hits, Frey and Henley sat down and continued to write new Eagles songs.
Their last radio hit, Hole In The World, was their response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11.
It is as moving and beautiful of a song as the songs they had penned together decades earlier.
And now with the passing of Glenn Frey, the music industry has lost another musical genius.
For the fans, we are left with a "hole in the world tonight..."
Farewell and Rest in Peace, Glenn. Thank you for all the musical memories.
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