Donald Henley (born July 22, 1947 in Gilmer, Texas) is an American rock musician who is the drummer and one of the lead singers and songwriters of the band The Eagles. He has since got the successful solo career & has played the initiation role around many induces.

Early years and The Eagles

Don Henley moved from either Linden, Texas to Los Angeles in 1970 to record an album with his early band, Shiloh. Shiloh was bankrolled by fellow Texan Kenny Rogers, then dislodge by having cash from either his band "The First Edition." Shortly thenceforth, Henley met Glenn Frey through Amos Records in Los Angeles. It two became members of Linda Ronstadt's backup band, which two months late became its have work, A Eagles.

A foremost Eagles album was freed within 1972 and contained the hit song "Take It Easy,"When well as Henley's number one hit songwriting attempt, "Witchy Woman." When a seventies progressed, Henley's rough vocals replaced Glenn Frey's twangy tenor when a focal point of the Eagles "sound." A band broke higher within 1980; during a Eagles' being Henley co-wrote (unremarkably by having Frey) virtually all of the band's right-known songs, notably "Desperado" and "Hotel California".

Solo career

Resulting a breakup of the Eagles, Henley start a productive solo career, the virtually all successful of any of the Eagles. His 1st solo release, 1982's ''I Can't Stand Still, was a moderate seller. A song "Dirty Laundry", a denouncement of local television news, received the virtually all airplay. Henley & Stevie Nicks would co-write and duet in her Billboard Hot 100 #6 hit "Leather and Lace" that equivalent month.

This was followed within 1984 by Building the Perfect Beast'', which featured layered synthesizers and was a marked departure from either a Eagles' united states-rock healthy. One release, "The Boys of Summer", reached #5 on the Billboard Hot 100. A song's haunting rhythms & lyrics of loss & aging, capped by seeing "a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac," immediately connected by owning the certain age bracket. A music video for the song was a striking, reminiscent, black-&-write, French New Wave-influenced masterpiece directed by John Baptiste Mondino that won several MTV Video Music Awards including Best Video of the Year. Henley besides won a Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance for the song. A album's "All She Wants To Do Is Dance" (#9 in Hot 100), "Sunset Grill", & "Not Enough Love in the World" too received considerable airplay.

Henley's next album, 1989's The End of the Innocence, was even additional successful. the title track, a colloboration by owning Bruce Hornsby, was a melancholy, piano-driven tale of searching for bits of happiness within the corrupt globe that reached #5 as a only. A hit watch-higher, "The Heart of the Matter", was an affectional risk remembrance of the misplaced love. Two one songs utilized a effectual system of varying a words in a chorus both instance these are sung, to advance the song's narration. A album's "The Last Worthless Evening" & "New York Minute" were among a more songs that gained radio airplay. Henley once more won a Right Male Rock Vocal Performance Grammy for the album.

Together tours Henley would play drums & sing at the same time merely in certain Eagles songs; in his solo songs he would either play electric guitar and sing or upright sing. Sometimes Eagles songs would become drastic rearrangements, like "Hotel California" with four trombones.

An extended period of time forgoing the recently recording followed, when Henley waited retired the dispute by having his record company when besides participating around the 1994 Eagles reunion tour & survive album. Henley eventually freed a second solo studio recording, Inside Job, in 2000, to a usually indifferent response, although a track "Taking You Home" received airplay.

When of 2005, Henley continues to tour with A Eagles.

Causes

Around 1990 Henley founded a Walden Outdoors Design to help protect Walden Pond from development. A Thoreau Institute at Walden Wilderness was began inside 1998 to provide for locate & education on Henry David Thoreau.

Henley co-founded a non-non-profit-making Caddo Lake Institute in 1993 to underwrite ecological education and locate. When section of a Caddo Flow of any stream Coalition, CLI aids protect the Texas wetland where Henley spent much of his childhood.

Around 2000 Henley co-founded by using Sheryl Crow the Recording Artists' Coalition, a class action founded to protect musicians' rights against most common music industry business practices. In that role he testified prior to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary in 2001 [http://judiciary.senate.gov/testimony.cfm?id=198&wit_id=261] & the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation in 2003 [http://www.azoz.com/news/0019d.html].

Henley is non universally an dreamer. Inside the March 2001 locate in Charlie Rose, he stated that "rock bands work best as a benevolent dictatorship," by owning the maaround songster in a band ("me and Glenn Frey") existence a ones that might hang on to a power.

Discography

Solo Albums

''I Can't Stand Still (1982) #24 US, US Sales: 500,000 Building the Perfect Beast (1984) #13 The states, #14 UK, US Gross revenue: 3,000,000 The End of the Innocence (1989) #8 U.s., #17 UK, US Gross revenue: 6,000,000 Actual Miles: Henley's Greatest Hits (1995) #48 US, US Sales: 1,000,000 Inside Job (2000) #7 The states, #25 UK, US Gross revenue: 1,000,000 One of These Nights [live] (2002)

Hit Singles

from either Bella Donna (Stevie Nicks album) 1982 "Leather and Lace" (by owning Stevie Nicks) #6 US from either We May't Could have Still 1983 "Dirty Laundry" #3 US from either Bulding a Hone Beast 1985 "The Boys Of Summer" #5 U.s.a., #12 UK 1985 "All She Wants to Do Is Dance" #9 US 1985 "Not Enough Love in the World" #34 US 1985 "Sunset Grill" #22 US from either A Prevent of the Innocence 1989 "The End of the Innocence" #8 US 1989 "The Last Worthless Evening" #21 US 1990 "The Heart of the Matter" #21 US from either Patty Smyth'' (Patty Smyth album) 1992 "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough" (Patty Smyth by using Don Henley) #2 United states of america, #22 UK non-album re-reprint single 1998 "The Boys Of Summer" (re-issue) #12 UK from either Within Job 2000 "Taking You Home" #58 United states of america (#1 Fully grown Coeval)