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The album's title track was their fourth number-one single on the pop charts, as well as their highest certified single, being certified Platinum. The Eagles also hold the distinction of releasing the highest-selling album of the 20th century in the United States.
The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1971. With five number-one singles, six number-one albums, six Grammy Awards and five American Music Awards, the Eagles were one of the most successful musical acts of the 1970s in North America and are one of the world's best-selling music artists, having sold more than 200 million records worldwide, [1] including 100 million sold ...
Rolling Stone listed it as number 368 on their 2012 edition of the 500 greatest albums of all time list with the comment that the album "created a new template for laid-back L.A. country-rock style". [3] It rose to number 207 in the 2020 edition of the list. [4] It was included in Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. [30]
The song was the Eagles' first single in 1972, with Frey its lead vocalist. [49] At the 58th Annual Grammy Awards, the remaining members of the Eagles and Jackson Browne performed "Take It Easy" in his honor. [50] The road [51] running next to the high school (now a middle school) that Frey attended in Royal Oak, Michigan also bears his name. [52]
Its title song is the group's second number one single on the Billboard Hot 100. The album sold four million copies and received a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year . A single from the album, "Lyin' Eyes", was also nominated for Record of the Year , and won the Eagles' first Grammy for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals at ...
Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) is the first compilation album by the American rock band the Eagles, released by Asylum Records on February 17, 1976. It contains a selection of songs from the band's first four albums, which were released from 1972 to 1975. On the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, the album reached number one, where it stayed for five ...
Eagles won numerous Grammy Awards during the 1970s and became one of the world's most successful rock bands of all time. [22] They are also among the top five overall bestselling bands of all time in America, and the highest-selling American band in U.S. history. [23] Henley and Frey have been called the American version of Lennon and McCartney ...
The song, recognized as "the best-selling single of all time", was released before the pop/rock singles-chart era and "was listed as the world's best-selling single in the first-ever Guinness Book of Records (published in 1955) and—remarkably—still retains the title more than 50 years later".