Here are some of his most indelible moments.A few years ago, Alex Ross, New Yorker music critic and author of the bestseller The Eternal Noise, began to investigate who was the author of the aphorism that “there are only two kinds of music, the good and the bad.” He concluded that it was said by two jazz titans, Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong. When the Eagles wound down their initial run, Frey made the transition to Eighties solo status better than many of his peers, scoring hits like “You Belong to the City” and “Smuggler’s Blues.” He only recorded sporadically during the past couple decades, but his music remained with us - whether in Eagles concerts or on classic-rock radio. The hits he co-wrote with Henley and the rest of the Eagles - “Desperado,” “One of These Nights,” “Tequila Sunrise,” “Lyin’ Eyes,” “Hotel California,” “Life in the Fast Lane,” “New Kid in Town” - came with melodies that were perfect for the easygoing mood of the Seventies and lyrics that reflected the decade’s sense of world-weariness and cynicism. Frey was a triple threat phenom: a gifted guitar player, dazzling singer and powerful songwriter. Mission accomplished, sir. The music Frey made in the Eagles is some of the most beloved and successful in rock history. “Being in close proximity to Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell, and Crosby, Stills and Nash, this unspoken thing was created between Henley and me, which said, ‘If we want to be up here with the big boys, we’d better write some fucking good songs.'” “In the beginning, we were the underdogs,” Glenn Frey once said of the Eagles‘ formative days on the L.A.
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