Don Henley Live In Concert!

In the fall of 1971, a band was formed that would forever change the face of music. Glen Frey and Don Henley formed the now legendary band, the Eagles. The Eagles are a group that pioneered and personified a uniquely American musical style blending country, folk, R&B, rock and pop sensibilities.

The Eagles would go on to become one of the most creatively and commercially successful bands of all time, selling over 100 million albums worldwide. In the course of their decades-long career, the group won four Grammy awards, topped the album charts five times and became one of the top concert draws of the era.

They were the first band in history to rack up domestic unit sales of over 10 million for two separate albums –Hotel California (15 million and counting) and Eagles – Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 (which, at 26 million copies, surpasses Michael Jackson’s Thriller as the best selling album of all time in the U.S.).

Don Henley Live

Now in support of his new solo album, Henley visits South Florida on his new tour. Inside Job is the Warner Bros. Records debut of Don Henley and his first new release since 1989’s multi-platinum The End Of The Innocence. Written and produced by Henley, in collaboration with Stan Lynch (formerly of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers), Inside Job features thirteen new songs, including the single “Taking You Home,” and comprises, according to the artist, “a diary of sorts — a chronicle of the past eleven years.”

Don Henley

While the Texas-born singer and songwriter may have been absent from the recording studio during the past decade (a greatest hits album, Actual Miles was released on the Geffen label in 1995), he was not resting on his laurels. When asked why it has been so long between albums for him, Henley answers,

“After a couple of decades of being a public figure, a person grows tired of his own face, his own voice. If this malaise is allowed to continue unchecked, it can deteriorate into something that my pals and I call â€˜Death By Show Business.’ This doesn’t refer to literal death — although that is sometimes the case — but more to a loss of enthusiasm and a withering of creativity — a sort of atrophy of the spirit.

One day you wake up and you’re wearing the pathetic clown suit. Although I always tried to lead a varied life that included charitable work, I had reached a point where I wanted to do something proactive — something that wasn’t completely â€˜me’ oriented.”