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Short story:
The Boys Of Summer by former Eagles member Don Henley peaks at No5 on the Billboard Top 40 singles chart in the USA.
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Don Henley : Boys of Summer was one of those great, rare moments where I got so inspired by the track that Mike Campbell had given me that it just sort of wrote itself. It came just screamin' out of me. And I was jumping up and down in the car 'cause I knew I had something there. I said, "This is good and I know it's good, it's great."
I like writing that way sometimes. Maybe it's sort of impersonal; I suppose people have this vision of two guys sitting down with guitars in a room with a little light bulb and some cigarettes and beer. And sometimes we used to do it that way, Glenn and I would sit down and bang 'em out that way.
But sometimes I like to be alone with the material, because the actual process of writing and recording with all the equipment and the people around gets in the way of dreaming, gets in the way of the creative process. I like to write with people who don't mind giving me a cassette and leaving me alone. On the other hand, I'm not opposed to sitting down with somebody and writing with them.
We recorded the whole song in whatever key it was written in, and I did it, and I said, "This is not quite right." And it was finished, we'd done the whole thing, and the album was late - and I said, "We've got to raise this up half a step." And they all looked at me like, "You're nuts! What's the matter with you?" And I said, "No, believe me, it'll be a lot better."
So we did it all over again, and they went, "Geez, you're right!"
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I like writing that way sometimes. Maybe it's sort of impersonal; I suppose people have this vision of two guys sitting down with guitars in a room with a little light bulb and some cigarettes and beer. And sometimes we used to do it that way, Glenn and I would sit down and bang 'em out that way.
But sometimes I like to be alone with the material, because the actual process of writing and recording with all the equipment and the people around gets in the way of dreaming, gets in the way of the creative process. I like to write with people who don't mind giving me a cassette and leaving me alone. On the other hand, I'm not opposed to sitting down with somebody and writing with them.
We recorded the whole song in whatever key it was written in, and I did it, and I said, "This is not quite right." And it was finished, we'd done the whole thing, and the album was late - and I said, "We've got to raise this up half a step." And they all looked at me like, "You're nuts! What's the matter with you?" And I said, "No, believe me, it'll be a lot better."
So we did it all over again, and they went, "Geez, you're right!"
(Source : not known)