The Birth Of The Eagles! Linda Ronstadt’s Back-Up Band Had A “Peaceful Easy Feeling!”

To celebrate the recent Kennedy Center honors, here’s a look at the great career of Linda Ronstadt

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Meet The Eagles!

The story of The Eagles is a fascinating one for so many reasons. They wrote some of the biggest hits of all time, like “Best Of My Love”, “Hotel California” and “Peaceful Easy Feeling”…

I recently found a great article that explains how one of the biggest-selling groups of all time began as Linda Ronstadt’s backup band!

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Linda Ronstadt was one of the best singers of the 70’s, which big hits like “You’re No Good”, “Blue Bayou” and “Hurts So Bad”…and she was close friends with the musicians who would become The Eagles!

History of the Eagles documentary


Meet The Eagles!

There is a great documentary that was made about The Eagles…a history of the band that includes incredible rare early footage of the band, along with candid interviews from all members…

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The original members of the band were Bernie Leadon, Glenn Frey, Don Henley and Randy Meisner…four musicians who played on…

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  1. Linda was a wonderful singer, understood she did, how to make this fan fall for her charming ways. Wish her all of God’s help, my prayers will follow.

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  2. I loved them – thanks for sharing

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  3. Whoa, who knew that there was so much serendipity at play in the birth of The Eagles. Thank you for sharing!

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  4. She had a marvelous voice. I have seen a lot of documentaries featuring her. She’s an American treasure.

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  5. I just checked, and I hadn’t seen this previously, John.
    Great feature!
    Best wishes, Pete.

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    • Ronstadt had a great career, but apparently last week she criticized one of Trump’s people and it created a bit of a firestorm, so I wanted to reiterate just how influential she was, especially to the careers of The Eagels…thanks for reading Pete!

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