Eagles is an American rock music group that was formed
in Los Angeles, California in the early 1970s. With five number one singles and
four number one albums, the Eagles were among the most successful recording artists
of the 1970s. At the end of the 20th century two of their albums, Eagles: Their
Greatest Hits 1971-1975 and Hotel California, ranked among the ten
best-selling albums according to the Record Industry Association of America.
Their
early music was a hybrid of country and bluegrass instrumentation grafted onto
the harmonies of California surfer rock, producing tender ballads and soft top-down
country-flavored pop-rock about relationships, cars, and the wandering life. The
originators of this genre were gifted singer/songwriters, among them Gram Parsons,
Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, and Warren Zevon. The Eagles took the singer-songwriter
ethos to a group setting with increased emphasis on arrangements and musicianship,
and the group's early sound became synonymous with the southern California country
rock. On later albums the band dispensed with bluegrass instrumentation and gravitated
to a more straight-ahead rock sound.
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