![]() I wrote the chorus and added changes in the chorus. We were there for two or three hours, until we finally arrived at it. I heard what he had and I sat down at his piano and I threw a few things at him. And Joe called and asked if I’d help him finish writing this song. He had a couple verses of lyrics and he had verse music. ![]() “And he didn’t quite have a title for it yet. “They were making Hotel California and Joe Walsh was writing this song,” he said. In a 2018 interview with The College Crowd Digs Me, Vitale looked back at the creation of the song. It was written by Joe Walsh along with drummer Joe Vitale. But “Pretty Maids All in a Row” is one of just two songs on the album (along with Randy Meisner’s “Try and Love Again”) where Henley and Frey receive no songwriting credits. “Life in the Fast Lane” is by Henley, Frey, and Joe Walsh. “New Kid in Town” was written by Henley, Frey, and their longtime buddy J.D. “That could be one of the best songs ever.”Īll three songs he picked appear on Hotel California. ![]() “‘New Kid in Town,’ ‘Life in the Fast Lane,’ ‘Pretty Maids All in a Row,'” Dylan said. ![]() But then in his epic song “Murder Most Foul,” released in March, he called out Don Henley and Glenn Frey by name, along with their 1975 classic “Take It to the Limit.” That inspired historian Douglas Brinkley to ask Dylan to name his favorite Eagles song when he interviewed him recently for The New York Times. Up until this year, Bob Dylan had never really expressed much interest in the Eagles. ![]()
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