Eagles - Dark Desert Highway

"""Mick Wall treats us to a savvy, authoritative chronicle of the flight of the Eagles, immersing us in the heady world of the Laurel Canyon scene and the other aspiring musicians who would rise to fame together. The Eagles persevered through obscurity and management and recording challenges to finally realize their dream, but the brilliance of their songwriting and musicianship was juxtaposed with the menacing tide of cocaine abuse, a broken brotherhood, and too much money. The Eagles: Dark Desert Highway is a comprehensive history of a band that burned so bright, yet finally succumbed to the heat."" * Sandra B. Tooze, author of Levon: From Down in the Delta to the Birth of the Band and Beyond * ""Hip, wise and witty, Wall knows these beatniks out to make it rich for who they were and spares nobody in his bare knuckles account, a sordid only-in-Hollywood tale that could have come from James Ellroy."" - Joel Selvin, author of Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day ""Entertaining and often edgy. . . . Wall captures the spirit of that era's 'fast lane' in a manner reminiscent of a highly caffeinated Tom Wolfe, treating the band in the manner that Wolfe did Phil Spector or the Merry Pranksters. . . . [A] rock bio in which nobody, including the author, takes it easy."" - Kirkus Reviews ""Wall knows the decade inside out, its derangements and its alchemies. The freewheeling style he adopts - he writes like a DJ on West Coast FM radio in 1977 - gets into the spirit, gladly granting the Eagles a free pass to snort coke off their amps."" - The Telegraph"