LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-NOV 6, 2019…TODAY WOULD HAVE BEEN GLENN FREY’S 71ST BIRTHDAY. FREY WAS RAISED IN THE DETROIT AREA BEFORE HEADING TO LOS ANGELES IN 1968. IN DETROIT FREY WAS PART OF BOB SEGER’S POSSE( FREY SUPPLIED BACKING VOCALS AND PLAYED GUITAR ON SEGER’S HIT ‘RAMBLIN’ GAMBLIN’ MAN’). FREY HEADED TO L.A. TO BE PART OF THE MUSIC SCENE AND HOOKED UP WITH J.D. SOUTHER. THIS LEAD TO A GIG BACKING UP LINDA RONDSTADT, WHERE HE MET DON HENLEY. WITH HENLEY, FREY FORMED THE EAGLES. WITH THE EAGLES FREY WENT ON TO SELL OVER 170,000,000 ALBUMS WORLDWIDE. AFTER THE BREAKUP OF THE EAGLES, FREY WENT ON TO A SUCCESSFUL SOLO CAREER . WITH THE EAGLES AND SOLO CAREER COMBINED , FREY RACKED UP TWENTY FOUR TOP 40 HITS ON THE BILLBOARD CHARTS. FROM THE YEAR 2000 ON FREY SUFFERED FROM RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS. THE MEDICATION HE WAS GIVEN TO CONTROL THE DISEASE EVENTUALLY LEAD TO HORRIBLE SIDE EFFECTS, WITH FREY COMING DOWN WITH COLITIS AND PNEUMONIA. FREY WENT TO THE HOSPITAL IN 2016 FOR AN OPERATION FOR HIS COLITIS. HE NEVER HAD THE OPERATION DUE TO COMPLICATIONS FROM PNEUMONIA, AND WAS PLACED IN A MEDICALLY INDUCED COMA. FREY DIED AT THE COLUMBIA MEDICAL CLINIC ON JANUARY 18, 2016 AT THE AGE OF 67 FROM COMPLICATIONS OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS, COLITIS AND PNEUMONIA. IN 2018, GLENN FREY’S WIDOW FILED SUIT AGAINST MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL AND HIS GASTROENTEROLOGIST FOR THE WRONGFUL DEATH OF GLENN FREY.
LET’S REMEMBER GLENN FREY WITH SOME SOLO STUFF
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