{"id":69170,"date":"2016-01-18T22:57:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T03:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=69170"},"modified":"2016-01-18T22:57:01","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T03:57:01","slug":"founder-and-guitarist-of-eagles-glenn-frey-dies-at-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/01\/18\/founder-and-guitarist-of-eagles-glenn-frey-dies-at-67\/","title":{"rendered":"Founder and guitarist of Eagles Glenn Frey, dies at 67"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_69167\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69167\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/1150970_433423766771362_1702050440_n-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69167\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69167\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/1150970_433423766771362_1702050440_n-1.jpg\" alt=\"Founder and guitarist of rock band Eagles died at age 67 (Photo taken from Glenn Frey's official Facebook fan page)\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/1150970_433423766771362_1702050440_n-1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/1150970_433423766771362_1702050440_n-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/1150970_433423766771362_1702050440_n-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/1150970_433423766771362_1702050440_n-1-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Founder and guitarist of rock band Eagles died at age 67 (Photo taken from Glenn Frey&#8217;s official Facebook fan page)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Founder member and guitarist of the rock band Eagles Glenn Frey died at the age of 67 in New York City due to his complications from rheumatoid arthritis, colitis and pneumonia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> &#8220;Words can neither describe our sorrow, nor our love and respect for all that he has given to us, his family, the music community &amp; millions of fans worldwide,\u201d said in a statement by his band members posted on their website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cGlenn fought a courageous battle for the past several weeks but, sadly, succumbed to complications from Rheumatoid Arthritis, Acute Ulcerative Colitis and Pneumonia.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe Frey family would like to thank everyone who joined Glenn to fight this fight and hoped and prayed for his recovery,\u201d the statement added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Frey\u2019s battle on intestinal tissues that requires a major surgery and long duration of recovery caused the band to postpone Kennedy Center Honors last November.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He co-founded the Eagles in 1971 together with Don Henley, Bernie Leadon and Randy Meisner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Among his compositions that became the band\u2019s biggest hits were Heartache Tonight and Lyin\u2019 Eyes. He also co-wrote Hotel California with Henley. And he\u2019s behind his biggest hits Lover\u2019s Moon and The One You Love.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Even the Eagles got dissolved for 14 years, Henley said in a report by British Broadcasting Corporation, \u201cthe bond we forged 45 years ago was never broken. He was like a brother to me; we were family, and like most families, there was some dysfunction. But, the bond we forged 45 years ago was never broken.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founder member and guitarist of the rock band Eagles Glenn Frey died at the age of 67 in New York &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":69167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,2,106],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-69170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-rewrite","mauthors-mavelle-p-durian","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}