{"id":631146,"date":"2026-04-27T04:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/631146\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T04:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:08:13","slug":"the-1994-song-don-henley-wrote-about-stars-he-cant-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/631146\/","title":{"rendered":"The 1994 song Don Henley wrote about stars he can’t stand"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sun 26 April 2026 19:56, UK <\/p>\n

The road to being one of Eagles didn\u2019t come easy for Don Henley<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He was looking to pay his dues just like everyone else when he started working with Glenn Frey, and even though he had to work through some of the hardest trials and tribulations that any rock star has ever gone through, it was always worth it if it meant getting a song out of the deal at the end of a day in the studio. He wasn\u2019t looking for perfection by any stretch, but after slaving away on his songs, he could tell when a few new faces were becoming a bit too bigheaded for their own good.<\/p>\n

The whole point behind show business was always about not taking yourself too seriously, but even Henley had to look at how shallow some of the pop elite had become by the time he made his solo records. He was always the quick-witted one in the group when it came time to come up with a great idea for a song, but when you look at the kinds of artists that had come up in the band\u2019s wake, Henley wasn\u2019t looking around and liking what he saw.<\/p>\n

A lot of his best solo hits were about taking on the horrors that come and go in the music industry, and while everyone could sit down and listen to a song like \u2018Boys of Summer\u2019<\/a>, \u2018New York Minute\u2019 and \u2018A Month of Sundays\u2019 were a lot closer to the kind of person that Henley was writing for. There were plenty of people that were getting swallowed by the changing times, but the last thing that he was going to deal with was the elite whining about everything.<\/p>\n

So when Eagles finally reformed, Henley had the perfect piece to work on when he and Frey first sat down to write again. There was confusion over whether they even had it in them to write a song anymore, but once Henley settled on the title \u2018Get Over It\u2019, he had the perfect vehicle for the kind of shallow celebrities that only wanted to talk about how they have been wronged every single time they are in trouble.<\/p>\n

Frey even remembered Henley getting angry just thinking about the song, saying<\/a>, \u201cHe said, \u2018Well, I have this title, \u2018Get Over It\u2019\u2019, and he proceeded to tell me about all the things that were pissing him off at the time. All these celebrities are complaining that everything that goes wrong is somebody else\u2019s fault. [He said], \u2018I\u2019m just fed up with that, so I\u2019m going to write a song about it.\u2019\u201d And with a Chuck Berry rhythm behind him, Henley seemed ready for anything when he premiered the tune on Hell Freezes Over.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Because while Eagles were known for being the breezy rock and roll band that sang about taking it easy and taking it to the limit one more time, Henley sounds like he\u2019s the disgruntled uncle that is putting a badass little kid in their place. Some of the lyrics do seem a little bit trite nowadays, but the lines about finding someone\u2019s inner child and kicking their little ass do go down pretty well all things considered.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s not like Henley was pointed out a problem that everyone fixed, either. Especially now that reality television is one of the biggest mediums in the world, it\u2019s easy to see everyone from millionaires to musicians to actors to even leaders of the free world complaining that everything they do is a personal attack against them and how they\u2019re the real victim in every part of their lives.<\/p>\n

Henley wasn\u2019t claiming to be one of the greatest rock stars in the world by any means, but the problem that he had was the narcissists who thought that they could get away with anything they wanted. He had already said his piece on journalism on \u2018Dirty Laundry\u2019, but this was when he felt like he could finally let everything off his chest properly.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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