The Onstage Fight That Broke Up the Eagles
It s not unusual for rock bands to have creative tensions, but few bands take it to the limit quite like the Eagles. The 70s superstars broke up in 1980 after two of the band members actually threatened each other with physical violence onstage in front of a concert audience.
The Eagles were already struggling with a great deal of internal turmoil due to the pressure to follow up their career-changing 1976 album
Hotel California. The sessions for the subsequent album,
The Long Run, dragged on interminably and resulted in an uneven album, and by the time they wound up the tour in support of that album, things came to a head between singer-guitarist Glenn Frey and guitarist Don Felder.