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    I dont know if this has been posted or not. If so, please direct me in the right path.

    I have the book, The Ealges: Flyin high.

    I know there is a book called, To the limit: the untold story of the eagles. Im getting that one soon.

    I was wondering are there any other books that are about the Ealges or that they have written?


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    Default Re: Eagles books

    Well... a certain ex-Eagle wrote a book recently.... lol.

    Marc Shapiro wrote one called The Long Run, which is just as good as any other.

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    A few other books I can think of where the Eagles get some major ink, although they are not exclusively about the band are 1) Desperados - The Roots of Country Rock; 2) You'll Never Make Love In This Town Again; 3) Laurel Canyon - The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Legendary Neighborhood; and 4) Hotel California.

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    I also have a book called The Eagles by Laura Jackson. I have several of the books listed here but have not read any of them, just thumbed through them. My thinking is that if I read them, I will read something I don't want to know about and therefore will be disappointed. Silly huh? One of these days I am going to start Heaven And Hell just because curiosity will get the better of me.
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    The book you have by Laura Jackson is Flying High.

    TBF, as a Tim fan, you might as well read the books. Tim is barely mentioned, particularly in To The Limit, which Felder's book parallels in many ways. You're not going to find out anything that you didn't already know unless it's a bit more about the drug use and promiscuity of several band members. I would not bother with The Long Run though because it is very basic indeed.

    My own preference is for Flying High, and I have to say it is because Glenn is treated reasonably well in it. The treatment of Glenn in To The Limit is at best perfunctory. I am trying to be kind. The book was written with Henley's cooperation so Henley features extremely strongly in it.

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    Thanks Dreamer. I will look into getting those books.

    Quote Originally Posted by Freypower View Post

    My own preference is for Flying High, and I have to say it is because Glenn is treated reasonably well in it.
    Thats what i have been noticing, as i am currently reading it. I just started it yesterday evening!

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    Quote Originally Posted by sodascouts View Post
    Marc Shapiro wrote one called The Long Run, which is just as good as any other.
    Hmmm... and it's only a penny (used copy). I'll give it a try. My Eagles library is growing!

    What about this Laura Jackson tome, "Flying High"? The cover blurb referring to the band's "insatiable appetite for drugs and groupies" does not bode well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NightMistBlue View Post
    Hmmm... and it's only a penny (used copy). I'll give it a try. My Eagles library is growing!

    What about this Laura Jackson tome, "Flying High"? The cover blurb referring to the band's "insatiable appetite for drugs and groupies" does not bode well.
    Flying High is my favourite because it treats Glenn with the respect he deserves. The others don't, especially Eliot. Shapiro is a hodge podge of old interviews with no new information & I don't recommend it.

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    I don't remember much detail on the "insatiable appetite for drugs and groupies".

    I've read the first 200 pages or so of the Geffen book and it provides good background of the business side of the music business at that time. I'm not sure how much I trust the detail because a couple of the Eagles stories have minor errors compared with the source they reference (Marc Eliot's book and another called Mansion on the Hill).
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    Oh no! I'll have to read the Tom King book (on Geffen) again, at least the Eagles parts. I listened to the audiobook in 2009, long before my conversion to Eaglesmania. How dismaying about the inaccuracies; the book was praised for its strong research. The author passed away - he was only in his 40s I think - a couple of years after The Operator was published.

    I want to check out "Heaven is Under Our Feet: A Book for Walden Woods too. A woman I work with has a copy autographed sweetly by Mr. Henley - a friend got it for her at a local book signing. It says, "Rosemarie, I've heard you're very beautiful. I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to see you." What a charmer, that Don.

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