“So, this is British Summer Time,” drummer and vocalist Don Henley said to the throng of people on Sunday, as he flitted between singing from behind his kit – ...
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The famous harmonies and solos floated and soared in equal measure over the 65000-person crowd.
Tennis ace John McEnroe even appeared to surprise the punters. There were guest spots during the night, with Deacon Frey – son of Glenn Frey, one of the founding members of the band, who died in 2016 – taking to the stage for renditions of Peaceful Easy Feeling and crowd favourite Take It Easy. With the sky turning from blue to golden-pink during their 23-song set, Eagles were certainly treated to a fine example of a night out in the capital.
Eagles have hinted they may have played their last show in London after performing on a balmy evening in Hyde Park.
Tennis ace John McEnroe even appeared to surprise the punters. There were guest spots during the night, with Deacon Frey – son of Glenn Frey, one of the founding members of the band, who died in 2016 – taking to the stage for renditions of Peaceful Easy Feeling and crowd favourite Take It Easy. With the sky turning from blue to golden-pink during their 23-song set, Eagles were certainly treated to a fine example of a night out in the capital.
Our mission tonight is to give you a two-hour vacation” (from the headlines and chaos in the world today) Don Henley announces at the start of the concert ...
After 50 years, it’s of course still great to see the Eagles on-stage and doing so well, and, as such, it is hardly surprising that they play it comparatively safe at this point: with crowd-pleaser after crowd-pleaser, these are all of the classics the audience have come to expect. In the City brings an insane guitar solo from Walsh and Peaceful Easy Feeling is performed marvellously by Deacon Frey, the late Glenn Frey’s son. But this also invokes some more melancholy attitudes – as guitarist Joe Walsh says about halfway through the show, he enjoyed himself a lot more “being 20 in the 70s than being 70 in the 20s”.
The soft rock legends headlined American Express Presents BST Hyde Park on Sunday night (26.06.22), and drummer and vocalist Don Henley suggested they might ...
He told the crowd: “We’d be in the middle of a take and the power would go off.” The Eagles hinted their Hyde Park concert could be their last ever London show. Eagles hint their BST Hyde Park concert could be their last in London
As Eagles began to play the opening notes of his 1984 solo song, Don Henley told the BST Hyde Park audience: “This one is for our brother Taylor Hawkins.”.
Eagles Eagles So sit back, relax and enjoy the music.”
It may seem hard to believe, but June 2022 marks 50 years since the Eagles released their debut album. Since then, they've racked up six number one albums ...
They followed that with ‘Rocky Mountain Way’ and ‘Desperado’, which saw the stage lit up with a backdrop that enhanced the song’s delicate melody as the audience sang and swayed along, before finishing on ‘Already Gone’. The upbeat, cheeky, clever breakup song provided a real singalong moment, and the special appearances from John McEnroe (yes really) playing guitar and Patty Smyth on tambourine and backing vocals – as well as the return of Deacon Frey to the stage – made it even better. It finished the show on a huge high and I for one didn’t want to go home after that! From his solo track ‘In The City’, which featured some wicked slide guitar, to his jokes about ‘being 20 in the 70s [being] better than being 70s in the 20s’ before kicking into a funky version of ‘Life’s Been Good’ where he whipped the crowd up into a call-and-response amid some psychedelic video effects, he kept the crowd rapt with his mix of wicked guitar solos – including riff-offs with Vince and guitarist Stuart Smith on ‘Funk #49’ – and vocal yelps and barks through a special tool on his microphone. The reception he got from the crowd was absolutely wonderful and it hope it encourages him to come back to the UK at some point in future (just me who’d love to see him in the legends slot at C2C next year?). For the next two hours, the band took us on – in Don Henley’s words – ‘a hell of a ride’ through their back catalogue. The crowd were clapping and cheering along straight away and it set the template for an evening of fantastic music.
Joe Walsh, Don Henley and co are now well into their seventies, but close your eyes at their BST gig, and they sounded immortal.
In a set littered with solo material, Don Henley’s ability to hit the notes of the airborne chorus to his Boys of Summer was remarkable. Today, with almost three decades of sobriety to his name, he is the most effortlessly charismatic member of a group that looked like they were knocking on a bit even when they were young. In the minutes before the Eagles began their set at Hyde Park, a lubricated American with a £263 ticket was trying to decide how many measures of Jack Daniels he and his friend should order.