Don Henley

Don Henley (2008)

Donald Hugh "Don" Henley (born July 22, 1947 in Gilmer , Texas ) is an American rock musician who was best known as a drummer and together with Glenn Frey as a band leader and singer of the country rock band Eagles . Nonetheless, he has had a very successful solo career since the early 1980s. As a member of the Eagles and as a soloist, he received a total of eight Grammy Awards . He has been a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the Eagles since 1998, and has also been a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame since 2000 .

Henley, who plays guitar and keyboards in addition to the drums , is considered a perfectionist, which is clearly reflected in the more than 45 years of his musical career. In addition, his distinctive and Grammys-winning singing voice made him an unmistakable and integral part of the international music industry.

Life

1970 Henley moved from Linden ( Texas ) to Los Angeles to record an album with his band Shiloh take. In Los Angeles he met Glenn Frey . Both became members of Linda Ronstadt's backing band and founded the Eagles in 1971 . Her first album came out in 1972 and contained the hit Take it easy . Henley has co-written most of the Eagles' popular songs, including Desperado and Hotel California . The band split up in 1981 after deep disagreements.

After the Eagles broke up, Henley started a successful solo career, including a number of guest appearances with well-known colleagues, including Stevie Nicks , with whom he was dating at the time. His first solo album was released in the summer of 1982 and was called I Can't Stand Still . It sold poorly, but in the fall of 1984 it was followed by Building the Perfect Beast , which now contained synthesizer sounds and moved a little away from the country rock sound of the Eagles. The single The Boys of Summer , a composition by Mike Campbell , to which Henley wrote the lyrics, reached the fifth place on the Hot 100 of Billboard magazine.

Henley's next album wasn't released until mid-1989 and was titled The End of the Innocence . It was just as successful as its predecessor. There followed a long time without a new production, as Henley had fallen out with his record company and helped reunite the Eagles.

In the fall of 1995 the greatest hits album Actual Miles: Henley's Greatest Hits , which contained two new songs and a bonus track, was released. In spring 2000 a new solo album was finally released: Inside Job . Since then the musical work with the Eagles has been in the foreground again. After the Eagles tour in 2009, Henley went on a solo tour through the USA and Canada .

After a break of 15 years, Henley released a solo album called Cass County in the fall of 2015 , most of which was recorded in Texas and Tennessee. The Rolling Stone listed Henley on rank 87 of the 100 best singers and together with Glenn Frey on rank 49 of the 100 best songwriters of all time .

Private

Henley is committed to protecting the environment. He founded the non-profit organization Caddo Lake Institute to promote environmental education and research in the 1990s. The Caddo Lake Institute, as part of the Caddo Lake Coalition, helps protect the Texas wetlands , where Henley spent much of his childhood. He also initiated the Walden Woods Project, which aims to preserve the historical cultural landscape in Concord in connection with the literary work of Henry David Thoreau .

The musician lives on a farm in Malibu and Dallas. In 1995 he married Sharon Summerall, a former model from Texas. Colleagues including Bruce Springsteen , Sting , Billy Joel , John Fogerty , Jackson Browne , Donna Lewis , Sheryl Crow , Glenn Frey and Tony Bennett were invited to the wedding on his farm in Malibu . Henley and his wife, who has multiple sclerosis , have three children, two daughters and a son. Henley addresses his wife's illness in the song Everything Is Different Now on the album Inside Job .

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1982	I can't stand still	-	-	-	-	US24 gold (35 weeks)US	First published: August 13, 1982
1984	Building the Perfect Beast	DE28 (12 weeks) DE	-	-	UK14th silver (11 weeks)UK	US13 × 3 Triple platinum (63 weeks)US	First published: November 19, 1984
1989	The End of the Innocence	DE87 (1 week) DE	-	-	UK17th gold (16 weeks)UK	US8th × 6 Six-fold platinum (148 weeks)US	First published: June 27, 1989
2000	Inside job	DE14 (5 weeks) DE	-	CH77 (3 weeks) CH	UK25 (4 weeks) UK	US7th platinum (32 weeks)US	First published: May 23, 2000
2015	Cass County	DE21 (3 weeks) DE	AT34 (1 week) AT	CH20 (3 weeks) CH	UK7 (7 weeks) UK	US3 (13 weeks) US	First published: September 25, 2015

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1995	Actual Miles: Henley's Greatest Hits	-	-	-	UK- silver UK	US48 platinum (26 weeks)US	First published: November 21, 1995
2009	The very best of	-	-	-	UK29 silver (3 weeks)UK	-	First published: June 16, 2009

more publishments

• 2015: The Concert for Walden Woods
• 2015: Don't Look Back - 1985 Radio Broadcast

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1982	Johnny Can't Read I Can't Stand Still	-	-	-	-	US42 (11 weeks) US	First published: August 1982
	Dirty Laundry I Can't Stand Still	-	AT8 (12 weeks) AT	-	UK59 (4 weeks) UK	US3 gold (19 weeks)US	First published: October 1982
1983	I Can't Stand Still I Can't Stand Still	-	-	-	-	US48 (11 weeks) US	First published: January 1983
1984	The Boys of Summer Building the Perfect Beast	DE18 (12 weeks) DE	-	-	UK12 gold (22 weeks)UK	US5 (22 weeks) US	First published: October 1984
1985	All She Wants to Do Is Dance Building the Perfect Beast	-	-	-	-	US9 (19 weeks) US	First published: February 1985
	Not Enough Love in the World Building the Perfect Beast	-	-	-	-	US34 (17 weeks) US	First published: May 1985
	Sunset Grill Building the Perfect Beast	-	-	-	-	US22 (14 weeks) US	First published: August 1985
1989	The End of the Innocence The End of the Innocence	DE54 (12 weeks) DE	-	-	UK48 (5 weeks) UK	US8 (18 weeks) US	First published: June 1989
	The Last Worthless Evening The End of the Innocence	-	-	-	-	US21 (18 weeks) US	First published: October 1989
1990	The Heart of the Matter The End of the Innocence	-	-	-	-	US21 (21 weeks) US	First published: January 1990
	How Bad Do You Want It? The End of the Innocence	-	-	-	-	US48 (12 weeks) US	First published: June 1990
	New York Minute The End of the Innocence	-	-	-	UK97 (2 weeks) UK	US48 (16 weeks) US	First published: November 1990
2000	Taking You Home Inside Job	-	-	-	-	US58 (20 weeks) US	First published: June 2000

As a guest musician

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1981	Leather and Lace Bella Donna	-	-	-	-	US6 (19 weeks) US	First release: October 1981 Stevie Nicks feat. Don Henley
1992	Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough Patty Smyth	DE51 (14 weeks) DE	AT28 (2 weeks) AT	-	UK22 (6 weeks) UK	US2 (24 weeks) US	First release: August 1992 Patty Smyth feat. Don Henley

More singles

• 1982: You Better Hang Up
• 1985: Drivin 'With Your Eyes Closed
• 1986: Who Owns This Place?
• 1989: I Will Not Go Quietly
• 1989: If Dirt Were Dollars
• 1993: Sit Down You're Rockin 'the Boat
• 1995: The Garden of Allah
• 1995: Everybody Knows
• 1996: Through Your Hands
• 1996: You Don't Know Me at All
• 2000: Workin 'It
• 2000: For My Wedding
• 2000: Everything Is Different Now
• 2015: Take a Picture of This

Video albums

• 2001: Live Inside Job (US: platinum)

Awards

Solo artist

• 1985 : MTV Video Music Awards - Video of the Year ( The Boys of Summer )
• 1986: Grammy Award - Best Rock Vocal Performance (male)
• 1989: Grammy Award - Best Rock Vocal Performance (male)
• 2001: Nomination Grammy Award - Best Rock Vocal Performance (male)
• 2001: Nomination Grammy Award - Best Pop Vocal Album (male)

Member of the Eagles

• 1976 Grammy Award - Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus
• 1977 Grammy Award - Best Arrangement For Voices
• 1977 Grammy Award - Record of the Year
• 1979 Grammy Award - Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group
• 2007 Grammy Award - Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group
• 2008 Grammy Award - Best Pop Instrumental Performance
• 2015 Kennedy Prize

Web links

Commons : Don Henley  - Collection of Images

• Official website (English)
• Don Henley in theInternet Movie Database(English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" - The Eagles in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
2. ↑ Songwriters Hall of Fame - Don Henley ( Memento of the original from November 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ^ Grammy winner on Grammy.com
4. ↑ CASS COUNTY PREMIERES AS AN NPR “FIRST LISTEN”. Retrieved on September 21, 2015 (English): "Don Henley's first solo album in 15 years" 
5. ↑ 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. Rolling Stone , December 2, 2010, accessed August 7, 2017 . 
6. ↑ The 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time. Rolling Stone , August 2015, accessed August 7, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Don Henley's rock star Efforts to Save Caddo Lake . In: Texas Heritage for Living . May 21, 2018 ( texasheritageforliving.com [accessed November 17, 2018]).
8. Jump up ↑ The Walden Woods Project - The Walden Woods Project preserves the land, literature and legacy of the quintessential American author, philosopher, and naturalist, Henry David Thoreau, to foster an ethic of environmental stewardship and social responsibility. Retrieved November 17, 2018 (American English). 
9. ↑ Biography on donhenley.com
10. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
11. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK US