The American rock band The Eagles, responsible for songs like Hotel California, announced their farewell tour The Long Goodbye, after 52 years together.
“Everything has its time and the time has come to close the circle. The official farewell tour is currently in the planning phase,” indicates a statement published this Thursday on its official website.
The band currently made up of Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit, with Vince Gill and Deacon Frey, brought forward the first 13 concert dates in the United States and specified that they will add more to their calendar once they manage to agree on schedules with the enclosures.
“We want to give all our fans the opportunity to see us on this last tour,” they stated in their statement, in which they also took the opportunity to express their gratitude to the musicians who have accompanied them for decades and to their followers.
The tour will kick off at New York’s Madison Square Garden on September 7 and will go through cities including Boston, Denver, Indianapolis, Atlanta and Detroit.
In addition, they will have the presence of the rock and jazz band Steely Dan as the opening act for the tour.
“This is our swan song (farewell song), but the music goes on and on,” they said.
The Eagles formed in the city of Los Angeles in 1971 and nine years later they disintegrated due to disagreements and drug problems.
By then they had already created their biggest hits like Take it easy, from 1971, and in 1976 they presented Hotel California, one of the most popular songs in rock history.
The self-titled album was listed by the specialized magazine Rolling Stone as one of the 500 best albums of all time.
In 1994 they met again giving concerts until today and in 2016 the band went through difficult times after the death of one of its founders, vocalist Glenn Frey.
