On the death of Glenn Frey – Three minutes Californian well-being – Süddeutsche.de

Glenn Frey and the Eagles were working hard on their permeability. In the US, they stand for a lifetime feeling.

obituary by Andrian Kreye

In America, they mourn the death of Glenn Frey just with a similar fervor as much of the Western world in the past week to David Bowie. This has mainly to do with the fact that America today in very many parts still sound like The Eagles , which founded the guitarist Frey with drummer Don Henley in Los Angeles 45 years ago. Especially if you leave the big cities and a country station turns on.

For Europe this is not quite comprehensible despite such time hits such as “Hotel California,” “Desperado” and “Take It Easy”. But the Eagles were happens to be the greatest of all American rock bands. On the list of best-selling musicians of all time, they are currently in fifth place. Only – what it’s not in mourning in America. The aim here is that the Eagles representative stand for a way of life, of which in America only a faint echo remained.

Zugereiste freeloaders a pop culture revolution

To some quick clichés successive grab: When Americans hear the Eagles, they immediately think of summer Sunday afternoons, open car window, cans of beer and this mixture of nonchalance and melancholy, with which one gets heartbreak, loneliness and forlornness unplanned teenage years in the handle

On the death of Glenn Frey Eagles – a career in songs

From” Take It Easy “to” Hotel California “: Glenn Frey and the Eagles lived and dismantled the California dream.
                

That had planned exactly as Glenn Frey, Don Henley and the changing members of the Eagles. Because in the musical atmosphere of departure of Laurel Canyon, so that today mythical umrankten district in the hills above Hollywood, they were not only laggards. They were the newcomers freeloaders a pop-cultural revolution that so however much more money earned than the cultural natives of this area like David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, Neil Young or Joni Mitchell.

Glenn Frey was made Detroit pulled to Los Angeles. At home he had played in a number of long-forgotten rock bands, but also with Bob Seger. Linda Ronstadt then hired him together with the three other newcomers Don Henley (Texas), Bernie Leadon (Minnesota) and Randy Meisner (Nebraska) as a companion volume. After the tour with her they founded in 1971 the Eagles. What followed was the first band in rock history, which had clearly set the goal of capturing a zeitgeist to write hits and sell.

Although critics grumbled that they had effeminate rock. Today’s Hollywood director Cameron Crowe was 15 and was still in high school when he interviewed the band for the city newspaper The San Diego Door . The band and the teenager remained friends, even when he for the music magazine Rolling Stone worked, what he later processed in his movie “Almost Famous”. Last summer he once wrote an essay about the Eagles, where he remembered how hard the band was working on their permeability. As she spent days and nights in the studio to write ballads and mid-tempo songs that country and folk, soaring vocal harmonies and flaky acoustic guitars brought to such a touch of genius mediocrity that the whole world believed for three or four minutes in Californian well-being to.

Almost ten years later exploded the summer fibrillation the Eagles in a supernova of cocaine, alcohol and inflated egos in Long Beach, California wegtauchen. Glenn Frey and the second guitarist Don Felder threatened during an ongoing concert before a very large audience repeatedly beating on. The dispute went so deep that the band announced that they would only re-occur if hell zufriere, which means so much in American, like that Christmas and Easter fall on a day.

“Hell Freezes Over “then was also the live album, which she published in 1994 after a tour in which Glenn Frey said repeatedly, they would have never resolved, but made only 14 Year holidays. In the meantime, the individual musicians had long been established as an independent superstars. Don Henley perhaps more successful than the other. But Glenn Frey ended up a few hits. He was one of the first musicians who recognized the appeal of Hollywood. So he wrote his hit “The Heat Is On” for Eddie Murphy’s “Beverly Hills Cop” and “Part of Me, Part of You” for “Thelma & amp; Louise”. He had his biggest Eighties moment but with an appearance in the series “Miami Vice”, for which he wrote “You Belong to the City” and “Smugglers Blues”.

On Monday Glenn Frey is after surgery died in New York at a cluster of acute illnesses. He was 67 years old.