Eagles

Year:
1998
Inducted by:
Jimmy Buffet
Category:
Performers

Bernie Leadon
Don Henley
Don Felder
Glenn Frey
Joe Walsh
Randy Meisner
Timothy B Schmit

Introduction

There’s a reason the Eagles’ “best of” album was the first album ever to be certified platinum.

This Southern California country rock band gave rock a litany of hits: “Take It Easy,” “Peaceful Easy Feeling,” “Witchy Woman,” “Tequila Sunrise,” “The Best of My Love,” “Lyin’ Eyes,” “Desperado,” “Hotel California” and we could go on.

Jimmy Buffett Inducts the Eagles

at the 1998 Induction Ceremony

Jimmy Buffett Inducts the Eagles

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Eagles acceptance speeches

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Eagles perform "Hotel California"

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Eagles perform "Take It Easy"

Hall of Fame Essay

1998

Parke Puterbaugh

The Eagles soared above the rapidly changing landscape of America in the Seventies, casting the social mores of those high-flying years into keenly observed songs that everyone came to know by heart.

In their flight across a decade that they defined as authoritatively as any band, the Eagles mirrored the larger changes taking place in society. They began as wide-eyed innocents with a country-rock pedigree and ended as purveyors of grandiose, dark-themed albums chronicling a world of excess and seduction that had begun spinning seriously out of control.