It topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1977 and won a Grammy Award for record of the year in 1978.
But Meisner was uncomfortable with fame.
“We did two or three encores, and Glenn wanted another one,” Meisner said, referring to his bandmate, the singer-songwriter who died in 2016.
“I told them I couldn’t do it, and we got into a spat,” Meisner told the magazine.
“That was the end.”Meisner left the band in September 1977 but was inducted with the Eagles into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.
Persons:
Meisner, “, ”, Rolling Stone, Glenn, ” Meisner, Parke Puterbaugh
Organizations:
Eagles, Roll Hall of Fame, Hall of Fame
Locations:
California, Knoxville