The Eagles will celebrate the 50th anniversary (a little bit late) of their “One of These Nights” album with a new deluxe edition featuring previously unreleased music.
The expanded set arrives May featuring a new mix of the original album, plus Dolby Atmos and high resolution mixes as well. An unreleased 1975 concert featuring a previously unreleased 16-song performance by the legendary group rounds out the upcoming set.
The previously unavailable recording preserves the Eagles’ performance at the Sunshine Festival in Anaheim on September 28th, 1975. Recorded at the end of the tour for “One Of These Nights“, the show features Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Randy Meisner, Bernie Leadon, and Don Felder. Their set includes songs from that album as well as hits from the group’s first three records.
The show also finds the Eagles in a significant transition period, as it also marks Leadon’s final performance with the band in the classic era, while Joe Walsh, who would become an official member months later, joins the group for the encore, performing his song “Rocky Mountain Way.”
The band had been gaining momentum thanks to heavy touring and a steady stream of popular singles in the first few years of their career. But 1974’s “On the Border” took things up a notch, as they scored their first No. 1 single, thanks to “Best of My Love.”
The band was able to build on that positive development when “One of These Nights” arrived in June of 1975. The album soared to the top spot of the Billboard album charts, even as the seasons were changing within the group. It was the first full record for new recruit Don Felder, who had joined up in the closing moments of the sessions for “On the Border”.
The group as a whole, were also continuing to evolve. “We like to be a nice little country-rock band from Los Angeles – about half the time,” Don Henley said in 1975. “We wanted to get away from the ballad syndrome with ‘One of These Nights.’ With Don Felder in the band now, we can really rock. He’s made us nastier and did a great guitar solo on the single.”
But “One of These Nights” also ended up being the swan song for multi-instrumentalist Bernie Leadon who made his exit after touring in support of the album.
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