Music

November, 1982

ReviewsThroughout their history, The Eagles took the rap for mellow--shorthand for a laid-back California music with drifting harmonies and redundant choruses. It was a bad rap, because the band's lyrics were frequently anything but mellow and often reflected the overwound mainspring of drummer Don Henley, who with the other members agreed to disband the supergroup for the Eighties. Now Henley's first solo effort, I Can't Stand Still (Asylum), takes revenge on a gossip-hungry public and the boys...