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June 13, 2000

Life in the Slow Lane

Don Henley on marriage and family, the tensions inside the Eagles and his first album in eleven years.

Inside Job

On his first two solo albums (I Can't Stand Still and Building the Perfect Beast), Don Henley made yearning his great theme. Something had disappeared that could never be recovered -- the Sixties? the Eagles? love? hope? -- and songs like "The Boys of Summer" and "Long Way Home" summoned the deep...

2000 RS: 3.5of 5 Stars

The End Of The Innocence

1989

Building The Perfect Beast

1984

I Can't Stand Still

1982

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Heartache and outrage aren't the most obvious bookends for a songwriter's work, but those two emotions are clearly important touchstones for Don Henley. That was true when he was in the Eagles -- he, after all, was the voice of both "Desperado" and "Life in the Fast Lane" -- and it became even more the case with his solo career, where he scored hits with both the sneering rage of "Dirty Laundry" a...

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