Product Description

The Eagles are the most popular, enduring rock band in America. With singles and albums hitting the top of the charts for a quarter century and a greatest hits collection that has sold more copies than any other recording in history, the Eagles have entered the pantheon of pop music. To the Limit is the unauthorized account of the group from its earliest years through the breakup, solo careers, and reunions. Blending the country and folk music of the late sixties with the melodic seductiveness of Detroit-style roots rock, the Eagles brought a new sound to a stagnant music scene. Under the brilliant management of David Geffen, the Eagles projected a public image of unshakable camaraderie-embodied by the cerebral, brooding Don Henley and the intuitive, self-destructive Glenn Frey-bolstered by the gorgeous harmonies of their songs. Behind the scenes, however, there was another story. At turns revealing, inspiring, funny, and shocking, To the Limit is the chronicle of a time, a place, and a group that succeeded in changing forever the world of popular music.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #30533 in Books
• Published on: 2004-12-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 420 pages

From the Author
For those who know my books, this is in keeping...
Greetings to my friends and fans in Great Britain and beyond. Those of you who know my previous works, books which include (among others) Death of a Rebel, the story of Phil Ochs; Down Thunder Road, the Making of Bruce Springsteen; and Walt Disney, Hollywood's Dark Prince; I think you will find this biography of the Eagles very much in the tradition of what I do -- getting and telling the "real story." For those of you not familiar with my work, let me welcome you to my world. I hope anyone who comes upon To The Limit, old friends and new, finds it worthwhile and enjoyable. Thank you, and I'll see you soon.

Marc Eliot

About the Author
Marc Eliot's previous biographies include Walt Disney: Hollywood's Dark Prince and Death of a Rebel: A Biography of Phil Ochs. He lives in New York City.

Customer Reviews

Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll Desperadoes
Having been a fan since Take It Easy, I've read some of the tomes written about the band, and been bored to tears in many cases.
This book had me from the first chapter. Marc Eliot has succeeded where other writers failed and that is the reader is told the story of the Eagles from the beginning, through the drug use, alcoholism, to the acrimonius split, the infighting, to Hell Freezes Over right up to the latest round of tours. He also doesn't leave out his own problems with Don Henley who said the book was full of lies and inaccuricies (Don, I love ya but you really need to get out more). In the updated version, Eliot takes us to places no other author has, we are shown how easy it was to fall into the "sex, drugs and rock and roll" lifestyle favoured by most artists in the 70's.
It is far from your usual run of the mill biography of a band, it goes deep inside, shows you more than you sometimes feel comfortable with, more than you really wanted to know in some parts. He doesn't flinch from the unseemly, the sex, the drugs, the drink, we even get to know more about the first line up, Randy Meisner, Bernie Leaden, also about Don Felder and the reason for his departure,the wonderful Joe Walsh and how he battled his demons and won, Henley's gambling, Frey's sex crazed drug fuelled lifestyle (if this is true, this guy should be long dead). It is basically one of the best biographies I've read in a very long time, and the best one of the Eagles on the market.

A Gem of a book about a Gem of a band.
There's only one word to discribe To the Limit by Marc Eliot,and that word is Masterpiece.His in depth story of this Legendery group's rise to the top is very compelling,intrueging and at times very emotional.Having just read the book whilst listening to their Classic songs brought back very fond memories of seeing them at Murryfield Stadium in Edinburgh on a beautiful summers night in 1996 something i had waited 25yrs for.Thanks for bringing back those memories through this book, will there ever be a more popular band than the EAGLES! Yeah,WHEN HELL FREEZES OVER.

Cameron Turner. Sauchie. SCOTLAND.

At last, someone who appreciates the best !!!
With their string of achievements since they formed in the early 70s, it's about time a biography like this appeared.

Marc Elliot has an open minded view on his subject, and had me hooked from Chapter 1.

The autor also had the priviledge of interviewing Don Henley extensively for this book, and briefly covers the band's solo achievements through the 80s and 90s.

A must buy for the dedicated Eagles fan. 'Take it to the limit...one more time."

(NEED MORE BOOKS ON THESE GUYS!!!)