Happy Birthday Glenn Frey ! Glenn Lewis Frey (pronounced Fry; born November 6, 1948) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, producer and actor, best known as a founding member of the Eagles. Frey played guitar with the Eagles as well as piano and keyboards and sang lead vocals on many Eagles hits such as Take It Easy, Peaceful Easy Feeling, Tequila Sunrise, Already Gone, Lyin Eyes, New Kid in Town, and Heartache Tonight. After the Eagles disbanded, Frey achieved solo success in the 1980s, especially with two No. 2 hits: the soundtrack songs The Heat Is On (from Beverly Hills Cop) and You Belong to the City (from the television series Miami Vice, the soundtrack of which stayed on top of the U.S. album charts for 11 weeks in 1985). His other contributions to the soundtrack, Smugglers Blues, hit No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100. Frey also contributed the song Flip City to the Ghostbusters II soundtrack, and Part of Me, Part of You to the soundtrack for Thelma & Louise. During his solo career, Frey had 12 charting songs in the U.S. Top 100. Eleven of those were written with Jack Tempchin who also wrote Peaceful Easy Feeling.[11] In the late 1990s, Frey founded a record company called Mission Records with attorney Peter Lopez.[12] Frey never released any of his own work on the label and the company has since disbanded. On May 8, 2012, he released his first solo album in 20 years, After Hours, featuring covers of pop standards from the 1940s-1960s.
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