Eaglemania

The Mis-Adventures of Judy Sibling

Now, Judy Sibling was a downright mess (but a totally survivable one), and with absolute certainty (at times) an altogether delightful mess at that ! On a good day she might just luck out and put on a matching pair of socks, (and in this book we shall also talk extensively about her not so good days----). But Judy Sibling was a genius at some things, such as lawerin' and finding missing persons. As a down-right awesome sleuth, no equal existed to match her positive percentage regardless of how haphazard her efforts would appear to be to any outside observers. For the complete enjoyment of this exciting story, you need to be informed that Judy Sibling graduated from law school at the rather tender young age of 18, after six years of intensive study at the prestigious Tennvalina University. Judy was by far the youngest (and also the sharpest) student ever to graduate from Tennvalina University and she did so with honors (after being awarded a full scholarship from Realsmart High School), it is fitting to say, the most notable high school in the entire area. Needless to say her family and very many friends were extremely proud of her and all were anxious to see the actual improvements to the world they correctly imagined could happen upon this sharp, attractive little female's exciting entrance into adult-hood----! You are in for many exciting surprises as Judy is constantly getting herself into(and back out of----!) situations you never even dreamed imaginable----! But it had been positively the worst year of Judy Sibling's career. She had desperately tried (but with only a certain degree of success) to defend one of her former high school class mates Henry Strongdorf in a second degree murder trial that simply, absolutely, refused to go their way. The problem was, although Henry had professed to be completely innocent of the matter, the gun allegedly used to commit the murder in question had no doubt been discovered by the state investigators to be under the front seat of poor Henry Strongdorf's pick-up truck, and although Henry's fingerprints were actually never found on the weapon, the barrel of the of the pistol was covered with dried blood that proved to be of the same type as the blood type of the deceased! Helen Riffraf's mutilated body (or, a least what was left of it) had been found at the bottom of a deep ravine about 15 miles from town. Stray dogs had made a point to chew both her ears off and there was but a hole where one of her eyes used to be. Pieces of half-rotten flesh were all that was left to cover her internal organs, while the length of time that the carcass (for quite obvious reasons) remained in that particular location had contributed such a negative impact on the locally surrounding air quality that it had become nearly impossible to breath in the area without noticeably gasping for that non- existent breath of fresh air. (I wonder if the city morgue stinks half as bad) ?

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Eagles on track

Eagles began as a backing group for vocalist Linda Ronstadt before striking out on their own. All being accomplished vocalists, musicians and songwriters, they jointly set themselves the goal of ‘number one singles and albums, great music, and a lot of money’. With guitarist Glenn Frey and drummer Don Henley as the combined driving force, by 1975 they had topped the singles and album charts at home and found major success in Britain and across the world, while establishing themselves as America’s foremost band. The global success of Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 and Hotel California, to this day the first and third best-selling albums in America of all time, proved impossible to surpass, and after several line-up changes, they disbanded in 1980. A resumption in 1994 was cemented with the live/studio album Hell Freezes Over, followed in 2007 by Long Road out of Eden, their first studio album for 28 years. After Frey’s death in 2016, they recruited new members maintaining a live schedule that continues to this day. This book recounts the band’s rise, fall and rise again, with a detailed look at every track on each studio and live album, plus an overview of original songs and cover versions recorded but never officially released. John Van der Kiste has published over ninety books, mostly historical biography and music, including 1970: A Year in Rock, and titles on Mott the Hoople and Ian Hunter, Free and Bad Company, and Manfred Mann’s Earth Band in the 1970s for Sonicbond’s Decades series. He has reviewed books and records for the local and national press and fanzines co-founded and edited the 70s fanzine Keep on Rockin, and written booklet notes for CD reissues from EMI and other labels. A former DJ and performer with various groups, he also co-wrote one track on Riff Regan’s Milestones (2015), and played harmonica on London’s The Hell for Leather Mob (2020). He lives in Devon, U.K.