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...onset of the '80s, Don Henley was sitting behind the drums of the Eagles, a colossally successful Los Angeles band with a lot of hits behind it and a future of guaranteed disintegration. There was a fair portion of intramural rivalry among band members. There was also a sense, even among the group's fans, that the Eagles' sound -- smooth melodies and often aseptic lyrics that took listeners on a twilight tour of the Hotel California -- might be about played...
Glenn Frey, Henley's friend and co-writer in the band, was the one who put the wraps on it. He called Henley one September afternoon in 1980 and told him he was making an album on his own. No Eagles invited. "He didn't say that he was through with the group, but I knew what he meant," Henley says. "He was tired of all the diplomacy and compromise necessitated by a group situation. Still, I was shocked and hurt. You just don't think of ending something that was great...
...those morning people, try the Harvard and Radcliffe crew teams, which last year both finished first at the Eastern Sprints and second at the Henley Regatta in England. Although crew is a spring sport, the biggest crew event comes in the fall, when zillions of drunk and obnoxious prep school kids invade Cambridge for the Head of the Charles Regatta. No one actually watches the race, just sit on the shore and people-watch...
...HENLEY NOTEBOOK: The Radcliffe varsity eights, considered by many to be the top boat in the country, did not compete in the national championships in order to prepare for its first trip to the Royal Henley Regatta in England...
...program will also be sending three boats to Henley: the varsity heavies will be competing for the Ladies Challenge Plate, the JV heavies will be split into fours and the lightweight eights will be rowing in the Thames...