2023-07-28 04:13:50
– Death at 77 of bassist Randy Meisner, founding member of Eagles
Randy Meisner was the lead bassist and vocalist for the Eagles, one of the fastest-selling bands in rock history, with iconic tracks like “Hotel California” and “Take It Easy.” He died at age 77.
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American bassist and singer Randy Meisner, founding member of the band Eagles, died Wednesday evening in Los Angeles at the age of 77, following complications related to a chronic lung disease, announced Thursday a press release on the site of the group.
Randy Meisner (far left) with the Eagles.
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Randy Meisner was the lead bassist and vocalist for Eagles, one of the fastest-selling bands in rock history, with such iconic tracks as ‘Hotel California’, ‘Take It Easy’ and ‘One of These’. nights”. “Randy was an integral part of Eagles and instrumental in the group’s early success,” the statement read. His vocal range was astonishing, as evidenced by his signature ballad, “Take It to the Limit.”
Born into a Nebraska farming family in March 1946, the musician had played with Rick Nelson and Poco’s Stone Canyon Band, before co-founding Eagles.;The band has sold over 150 million albums in over half a -century career, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. Pioneers of laid-back, country-tinged rock from the West Coast, Eagles dominated early 1970s American pop, seeing their members change over the decades.
Glenn Frey, founding member, died in 2016 at the age of 67. The current lineup of Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit will embark on a final tour that will begin in September in New York and is expected to continue through 2025. Randy Meisner, who left the lineup at the end of the 1970s and had been replaced by Timothy B. Schmit, was not to participate in the tour.
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