Reviews

Live music: The Eagles

The Eagles’ smooth drive-time rock has always divided opinion. Regardless of where you stand on their artistic merits, however, who could disagree that the Californians have provided popular music with one of its great soap operas?

Though their songwriting was occasionally laid back to the point of horizontal, off stage they lived at full throttle. Drugs, groupies, fist-fights: it seemed the only dull moments were on their albums. They were every rock biographers’ wildest dreams come true.