At lyrics trial, Don Henley recounts making Eagles classic "Hotel California" and says he was not a "drug-filled zombie"
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Seated in a New York courtroom witness box, Don Henley opened a large brown envelope Tuesday and paged through the aging yellow sheets of a legal pad.
"Well, it's got two song titles written on the top," he explained when asked what it contained. " 'After the Thrill is Gone' and 'One of These Nights.'"
Then came another envelope and pad, and another, and one more. They bore 1970s drafts of lyrics to two other Eagles hits, "The Long Run" and "The Sad Cafe." The four pads were in what Henley identified as his handwriting and occasionally that of band co-founder Glenn Frey.
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