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Don Henley of the Eagles performs at MGM Grand Garden Arena on Sept. 27, 2019 in Las Vegas.was following its 1976 release. It spawned two No. 1 songs on Billboard’s Hot 100 and spent eight weeks atop the Billboard 200. The RIAA has certified it for sales of more than 26 million copies in the U.S.
But its significance came from far more than its sales success. Though not officially positioned as a concept album, its eight songs nevertheless served as an unfettered, often cinematic, look at American disillusionment, especially when -- as “Life in the Fast Lane” declares -- “everything, all the time” becomes a personal manifesto.
has said the iconic title track is about the shift from “innocence to experience,” and while he may have been talking about a person, it also appropriately described America in its bicentennial year. Eleven years beforethe Eagles already understood the corrosive forces at play when our baser instincts go unchecked and narcissism runs rampant.
Remarkably, until Friday night , the Eagles had never played the album all the way through. In the first of three shows at Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Garden Arena, the band performed the album from front to back, following with a blazing greatest hits set that had the audience at the sold-out, 13,000-seat arena constantly on its feet.
In an amusing nod to the album era, the show opened with a mysterious, caped man striding across the stage and placing adisc onto a turntable. When it came time to flip the album, a woman dressed in a cigarette girl costume came and did the honors.They first played with the band in July 2017 at the Eagles’ first gigs following
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