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A bad year indeed.  Glenn Frey, from Eagles passes on!

 

Eagles guitarist Glenn Frey, 67, dies

 

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_87779368_w3a0c8fq.jpgImage copyright: Image caption. Frey died of complications from illnesses including pneumonia

 

Eagles guitarist Glenn Frey has died at the age of 67, the band has announced.

He died in New York City on Monday from complications arising from rheumatoid arthritis, colitis and pneumonia.

"Words can neither describe our sorrow, nor our love and respect for all that he has given to us," his family and fellow band members said.

 

The Eagles were one of the most successful bands of the 1970s, with multiple hit singles including Hotel California, in 1976.

Frey co-founded the Eagles in 1971 with Don Henley, Bernie Leadon and Randy Meisner.

He co-wrote Hotel California with Henley, and composed a number of the band's biggest songs on his own, including Heartache Tonight and Lyin' Eyes.

'We were family'

The Eagles notched up more than 150 million album sales worldwide, with Hotel California and their greatest hits among the best selling in history.

"He was like a brother to me; we were family, and like most families, there was some dysfunction," Henley said in a statement.

"But, the bond we forged 45 years ago was never broken, even during the 14 years that the Eagles were dissolved."

_87779388_030996659-1.jpgImage co  pyright: Getty Images. Image caption: Frey, pictured second from left with the Eagles in the 1970s, wrote some of their best selling hits  

 

After the Eagles' acrimonious split in 1980, Frey enjoyed success as a solo artist, most notably with The Heat is On, recorded for the 1984 film Beverly Hills Cop.

The band reunited in 1994 and became a hugely popular touring act.

Henley had vowed that the Eagles would only get back together when "hell freezes over" - which became the name of their album of the same year.

 

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Ender

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Heard about it from Joe Augustine on the radio this morning.. It's a sad ending of 2015 and beginning of 2016. So many musicians lost in a short period.

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He used to live Life in the Fast Lane but least he's got that Peaceful Easy Feeling now. In Heaven, he'll be the New Kid in Town.

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He used to live Life in the Fast Lane but least he's got that Peaceful Easy Feeling now. In Heaven, he'll be the New Kid in Town.

Yeah he checked in to Hotel Cali
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He used to live Life in the Fast Lane but least he's got that Peaceful Easy Feeling now. In Heaven, he'll be the New Kid in Town.

 

... drinking Tequila Sunrise with a Witchy Woman... in The Long Run, it wasn't a Wasted Time... as he wasn't a Victim Of Love, sitting in The Sad Cafe, listening to the Hollywood Waltz, looking into some Lyin' Eyes...... After The Thrill Is Gone

 

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Can never forget this haunting tune:

 

Mirrors on the ceiling

Pink champagne on ice

And she said

We are all just prisoners here

Of our own device

And in the master's chambers

They gathered for the feast

They stab it with their steely knives

But they just can't kill the beast

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