Glenn Frey, Eagles guitarist and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, passed away on January 18. He was 67. Glenn fought a courageous battle for the past several weeks but, sadly, succumbed to complications from rheumatoid arthritis, acute ulcerative colitis and pneumonia. An American rocker whose band dominated charts throughout the 1970s with hits such as ‘Hotel California’.

About Frey’s career:-

• ‘The Eagles’, fronted by Frey and drummer-vocalist Henley, dominated the American rock charts throughout the 1970s with hits including ‘Take It Easy’, ‘One of These Nights’- songs that endure as cover-band classics to this day.
• The group postponed by a year a December appearance to receive the prestigious Kennedy Center Lifetime Artistic Achievement award due to Frey’s health problems.
• The rock group was founded in the early 1970s and inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.
• Its six Grammys range from Record of the Year in 1977 for “Hotel California” to Best Pop Instrumental Performance in 2008 for ‘I Dreamed There Was No War’.
• The Eagles pioneered the West Coast sound of laid-back, country-tinged rock that dominated early 1970s American pop and saw a changing cast of core members throughout the decades. It split in the early 1980s, only to reform in 1994.
• In addition to his amazing work with The Eagles, he also contributed music to such films Beverly Hills Cop, Ghostbusters II, Thelma & Louise.
• The multi-talented singer also dabbled in acting on TV’s Miami Vice, Nash Bridges and HBO’s Arli$, and had a small role working with Tom Cruise in his classic film Jerry Maguire, where he played the frugal Arizona Cardinals owner who finally gives Cuba Gooding Jr.’s character a big money contract.

Frey was born in Detroit on November 6, 1948.