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Article: THE LONG RUN: FINALLY, THE EAGLES MAKE THEIR BOXED SET
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 19, 2000
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Virtually everybody who is anybody in the music business has been
immortalized by a boxed set: from Eric Clapton and Bob Dylan to
Linda Ronstadt, Stevie Wonder, Jimi Hendrix, Tom Petty, Sammy Davis
Jr. - well, you get the idea.
There has been one major holdout until now, however: The Eagles,
who finally embraced boxed-set mania with last week's release of the
four-CD "The Eagles: Selected Works 1972-1999."
"Yeah, it seemed like we were the only guys not to have a boxed
set," Eagles cosinger Glenn Frey says from Los Angeles.
"I hope people will understand that our label, Elektra/Asylum, has
been asking for this boxed set since 1985. But we never put one out.
We had two `Greatest Hits' ...