The Eagles Hotel California court case lifts lid on ‘pampered rock stars’
The Eagles' manager once told their biographer that his book wasn't getting published because of friction from “a pampered rock star,” a court heard on Thursday.
“It’s gonna come out when God Henley says it can," Irving Azoff said in the same years-old phone call, apparently referring to band co-founder Don Henley. "Now it’s up to God.”
The recording emerged at the criminal trial of three collectibles experts charged with conspiring to hang onto and sell sheets of handwritten, draft lyrics to the megahit “Hotel California” and other Eagles favorites.
The biographer, Ed Sanders,
