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9/24/1979 Eagles release The Long Run

 

The Long Run from the Eagles got released on this day in 1979.  The group's 6th album was the first for Timothy B. Schmit and the last that Don Felder's last in the group.   It would also be a long run before the band put out another album. Its follow-up wouldn't come for another 28 years.  The lp also was a long time in the making.  Work on it began in 1978 with a plan for it to be a double album.  It took a year and a half to complete and the recording was done in several different studios before the band decided to settle on a single disc release and selected the 10 songs that made the cut.  According to Don Henley, the process left the group so "...completely burned out", and "...physically, emotionally, spiritually and creatively exhausted" that they disbanded in 1980 and did not regroup until fourteen years later.

 

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on September 24 include...

 

1941 Linda McCartney (Eastman) born. 

1965 Bob Dylan opens US tour in Dallas, Texas.

1967 Traffic's live debut takes place in London.

1971 T-Rex releases Electric Warrior.

1975 Rush releases Caress Of Steel.

1988 James Brown is arrested in Georgia following a 2 hour high speed chase by police. 

1990 AC/DC releases The Razor’s Edge.

1993 Steven Adler gets $2.5 million in settlement over his firing by Guns N' Roses

1994 Van Morrison releases Hymns To The Silence.

1994 Eric Clapton plays Saturday Night Live.

1998 Steven Tyler of Aerosmith throws out ceremonial first pitch before Expos-Cardinals game in St. Louis.

2003 Dave Matthews Band draws close to 100,000 to Central Park concert.

2008 Come Dancing, a musical by Ray Davies of the Kinks, opens at England's Royal Stratford Theatre.

2010 Heart's Nancy Wilson and Cameron Crowe divorce...