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Why Eagles Fired Their Producer to Complete ‘On the Border’

When Eagles released their third album, On the Border, on March 22, 1974, it arrived amid a year of turmoil for the band. They had just added Don Felder to the lineup, and soon after the record’s launch they fired manager Elliot Roberts to sign with Irving Azoff instead. But they’d already fired Glyn Johns, producer of their first two LPs, after three months of effort in the U.K. had produced unsatisfactory results. “I just think it was time for a change,” Glenn Frey said cautiously in an interview with Crawdaddy (via the Guardian). Pointing out the band remained friends with Johns, he explain…