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Charges are dropped midtrial in 'Hotel California' lyrics case. Don Henley plans to fight on
NEW YORK (AP) — From the start, the case was highly unusual: a criminal prosecution centered on the disputed ownership of a cache of hand-drafted lyrics to “Hotel California” and other Eagles hits. Its end was even more unexpected. In the middle of trial, New...
Don Henley wraps up testimony in Eagles lyric sheets case, saying they were his property
NEW YORK (AP) — The lyrics to “Hotel California” and other classic Eagles songs should never have ended up at auction, Don Henley told a court Wednesday. “I always knew those lyrics were my property. I never gifted them or gave them to anybody to keep or sell,” the Eagles...
In court, Don Henley recounts the making of the Eagles' megahit 'Hotel California'
NEW YORK (AP) — Seated in a courtroom witness box, Don Henley opened a large brown envelope Tuesday and paged through the aging yellow sheets of a legal pad. “Well, it's got two song titles written on the top,” he explained when asked what it contained. “ 'After the Thrill is...
Eagles' Don Henley quizzed at lyrics trial about time a naked 16-year-old girl overdosed at his home
NEW YORK (AP) — Don Henley was asked in a New York courtroom Monday about a seamy episode from his past: his 1980 arrest after authorities said they found drugs and a naked 16-year-old girl suffering from an overdose at the Eagles co-founder's Los Angeles home. Henley was...
Don Henley tells court he never gave away drafts of 'Hotel California' lyrics
NEW YORK (AP) — Don Henley never gave away handwritten pages of draft lyrics to “Hotel California” and other Eagles hits, he said Monday, calling them “very personal" in testimony that also delved into an unrelated piece of his past: his 1980 arrest. Henley, the...
Backstory of disputed 'Hotel California' lyrics pages 'just felt thin,' ex-auction exec says
NEW YORK (AP) — When Christie's was offered the chance to sell 13 pages of draft lyrics to the Eagles’ “Hotel California” in 2015, auction house executive Tom Lecky was “super excited.” But red flags started waving when seller Craig Inciardi said he had gotten them from a...
On decades-old taped call, Eagles manager said 'pampered rock star' was stalling band biography
NEW YORK (AP) — The Eagles' manager once told their authorized biographer that his book wasn't getting published because of friction from “a pampered rock star,” according to a recording played in court Thursday. “It’s gonna come out when God Henley says it can," Irving...
Unpublished Eagles book dished on the band's 1980 breakup, manager says at trial over lyrics pages
NEW YORK (AP) — A never-published biography of the Eagles delved deeply into the superstar classic rock band's 1980 breakup, their longtime manager testified Wednesday, saying co-founders Glenn Frey and Don Henley were “very disappointed” with the manuscript. The book never...
Welcome to the 'Hotel California' case: The trial over handwritten lyrics to an Eagles classic
NEW YORK (AP) — In the mid-1970s, the Eagles were working on a spooky, cryptic new song. On a lined yellow pad, Don Henley, with input from band co-founder Glenn Frey, jotted thoughts about “a dark desert highway" and “a lovely place” with a luxurious surface and ominous...
