To the Limit: The Untold Story of the Eagles

Before reading this book I was only aware of the music of The Eagles nothing of their story. I found the book well paced and informative without being bogged down in minute details. The author gives well balanced arguments at many of the key points in the bands history (such as when Leadon & subsequently when Meisner left the band). He also gives a vivid picture of the L.A. music scene that produced and shaped America's most successful band of the 1970s. The book concludes on the Hell Freezes Over Tour and contains a postscript covering The Eagles induction into the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame in 1998. I felt the author gave the band the credit they deserved for their music, acknowledging that they had been short changed over the years by music critics. Throughout the book there is a genuine appreciation for the great music that The Eagles created.

Plenty of gravy but little meat ! (0/2 people found this helpful)

If you're looking for a chug along diary of the Eagles from the beginning-fine you found it.

If you're looking for an incisive behind -the-scenes-look at the band and the individuals -FORGET IT this book skates over the surface better than Torvill & Dean . I wanted a REAL look at this phenomenon and DIDN'T GET IT !!

Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll Desperadoes (9/9 people found this helpful)

Having been a fan since Take It Easy, I've read some of the tomes written about the band, and been bored to tears in many cases.
This book had me from the first chapter. Marc Eliot has succeeded where other writers failed and that is the reader is told the story of the Eagles from the beginning, through the drug use, alcoholism, to the acrimonius split, the infighting, to Hell Freezes Over right up to the latest round of tours. He also doesn't leave out his own problems with Don Henley who said the book was full of lies and inaccuricies (Don, I love ya but you really need to get out more). In the updated version, Eliot takes us to places no other author has, we are shown how easy it was to fall into the "sex, drugs and rock and roll" lifestyle favoured by most artists in the 70's.
It is far from your usual run of the mill biography of a band, it goes deep inside, shows you more than you sometimes feel comfortable with, more than you really wanted to know in some parts. He doesn't flinch from the unseemly, the sex, the drugs, the drink, we even get to know more about the first line up, Randy Meisner, Bernie Leaden, also about Don Felder and the reason for his departure,the wonderful Joe Walsh and how he battled his demons and won, Henley's gambling, Frey's sex crazed drug fuelled lifestyle (if this is true, this guy should be long dead). It is basically one of the best biographies I've read in a very long time, and the best one of the Eagles on the market.

First Class Book (3/3 people found this helpful)

The only thing that made me slightly uncomforatable was how the author has rounded on them in the updated version. I felt it was a bit petty but since I didnt have Don H breathing down my neck, I cant say I would not have dont the same thing.

Thanks Marc.

A Gem of a book about a Gem of a band. (15/16 people found this helpful)

There's only one word to discribe To the Limit by Marc Eliot,and that word is Masterpiece.His in depth story of this Legendery group's rise to the top is very compelling,intrueging and at times very emotional.Having just read the book whilst listening to their Classic songs brought back very fond memories of seeing them at Murryfield Stadium in Edinburgh on a beautiful summers night in 1996 something i had waited 25yrs for.Thanks for bringing back those memories through this book, will there ever be a more popular band than the EAGLES! Yeah,WHEN HELL FREEZES OVER.

To the Limit: The Untold Story of the Eagles

Marc Eliot

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A good place to start (2/2 people found this helpful)

Plenty of gravy but little meat ! (0/2 people found this helpful)

Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll Desperadoes (9/9 people found this helpful)

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A Gem of a book about a Gem of a band. (15/16 people found this helpful)

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