On Decades-Old Taped Call, Eagles Manager Said ‘Pampered Rock Star’ Was Stalling Band Biography

On Decades-Old Taped Call, Eagles Manager Said ‘Pampered Rock Star’ Was Stalling Band Biography
Eagles manager Irving Azoff (C) arrives at supreme court to testify in New York on Feb. 22, 2024. Mary Altaffer/AP Photo
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NEW YORK—The Eagles’ manager once told their authorized biographer that his book wasn’t getting published because of friction from “a pampered rock star,” according to a recording played in court 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.”