Don Henley told an audience in Las Vegas that the Eagles are working on an album.
Don Henley dropped a bombshell during a private concert in Las Vegas on Saturday: The Eagles are working on their first album of all new music in 28 years.
"It's coming out in 60 to 90 days, if we don't kill each other first," Henley told a VIP crowd at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
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It would be the group's first such album since "The Long Run" in 1979, which included their last Billboard No. 1 hit, "Heartache Tonight."
Henley, one of the original members, later told the crowd of 10,000 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, "I'll see you this summer," hinting at an Eagles tour.
The Eagles disbanded in 1982 but reunited in 1994 with Henley, Glenn Frey, Don Felder, Joe Walsh and Timothy Schmit.
The band's last release was "Hell Freezes Over" in 1994, which included some new songs and past hits recorded for an MTV audience.
THE VEGAS EXPERIENCE
MSNBC's "Hardball" host Chris Matthews, during his Monday interview with Palms owner George Maloof, said his driver offered him some advice.
"Embrace the superficiality," the limo driver told Matthews, who was on his way to the remote broadcast from a $25,000-a-night sky villa at the Palms' Fantasy Tower.
Matthews was in town to judge the Miss America contest.
Matthews' first trip to Las Vegas didn't include a private limo.
"I drove out here in 1971 to see some friends after leaving the Peace Corps," Matthews told me.
On the way from Utah, he picked up a hitchhiker, "an old hobo who had on the road since the 1930s."
"He insisted I spend a Saturday night in Las Vegas. The thing I remember most was that he was just so optimistic."
THE SCENE AND HEARD
Miss America spies tell me a stalker's photograph was prominently posted throughout the pageant. And I'm told at least one contestant had a tattoo covered with a special spray paint also used to cover blemishes. ...
"American Idol" judge Simon Cowell cleared up a mystery from their November 2005 Las Vegas audition. I caught up to Cowell at the Nevada Ballet Theatre's Black & White Ball on Saturday at Wynn Las Vegas and asked him about a female singer from San Diego who won rave reviews after her performance at the Renaissance Hotel. At the time, judge Randy Jackson told me, "I thought she was a Top 10er." Cowell, a hard man to impress, added, "A Top 1er." Although she was chosen for the Hollywood rounds, she never made it. "She was from Ireland, and she wasn't eligible," Cowell explained. ...
The NFL's crackdown on Super Bowl parties even includes fundraisers for charities. The Chicago Park District wanted to show the game in Soldier Field, with proceeds going to charity, but the NFL said no because it would water down TV ratings.
SIGHTINGS
At the Miss America Pageant finals: Gov. Jim Gibbons and first lady Dawn Gibbons, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam, Marilu Henner, and magician Lance Burton and his girlfriend, Gabriella Versace. ... Mario Lopez, at Turnberry Place on Sunday, working out and rehearsing his lines for the Miss America broadcast. ... David Hasselhoff and friends, having a late supper at the Bootlegger Bistro on Sunday night. ... Cowell, touring the newly opened Panorama Towers on Sunday with Laurence Hallier, one of Panorama's owners. ... In the capacity crowd for Earl Turner's closing show Sunday at Palace Station: Mary Wilson of The Supremes, Antonio Fargas, who played Huggy Bear in the original "Starsky & Hutch," George Wallace and KVBC-TV, Channel 3 anchor Sue Manteris. ... NASCAR driver Michael Waltrip, at N9NE Steakhouse (Palms) on Sunday. ... Kevin Nealon of "Weeds," at Charlie Palmer Steak (Mandalay Bay) Saturday night. ... At the Teammates for Kids poker tournament over the weekend: Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, ESPN's Barry Melrose, Steve Levy and Karl Ravech; pitchers and former pitchers Mike Hampton, Jeff Fassero, Turk Wendell and Steve Karsay; and Jeremy Giambi.
THE PUNCH LINE
"New York has now hit a record low. It was 9 degrees in Central Park today. They're warning New Yorkers now not to leave their middle fingers exposed for more than a couple of seconds." -- Jimmy Kimmel
Norm Clarke can be reached at 383-0244 or norm@reviewjournal.com.
