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Compilation album by the Eagles
Released February 17, 1976
Recorded 1971–1975
Studio Olympic and Island, London; The Record Plant, Los Angeles; Criteria, Miami
Genre Rock
Length 43:08
Label Asylum
Producer
Glyn JohnsBill Szymczyk
The Eagles chronology
One of These Nights
(1975) Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975)
(1976) Hotel California
(1976)
Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) is the first compilation album by the American rock band the Eagles, released by Asylum Records on February 17, 1976. It contains a selection of songs from the band`s first four albums, which were released from 1972 to 1975. On the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, the album reached number one, where it stayed for five weeks.

The album has the distinction of being the first album to receive the RIAA`s Platinum certification, which was introduced in 1976 to recognize albums that ship one million copies in the United States. It was ranked number four on Billboard`s year-end album chart for 1976, and has spent a total of 422 weeks on the Billboard 200 (as of September 2023). The RIAA has certified the album 38 times platinum, indicating sales of 38 million copies in America alone, which would make Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) the best-selling album of the 20th century in the United States (it was surpassed in platinum certifications by Michael Jackson`s Thriller after Jackson`s death in 2009,[1] but regained the title in August 2018). In 2017, the album was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry as being `culturally, historically, or artistically significant`.[2]

Background
Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) comprises nine singles released between 1972 and 1975, plus the album track `Desperado`. All of the singles except `Tequila Sunrise` had charted in the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, and five had reached the top ten. `One of These Nights` and `Best of My Love` had both topped the chart.

Irving Azoff, the manager of the Eagles, said: `We decided it was time to put out the first greatest-hits because we had enough hits.`[3] According to Don Felder, however, none of the band members had any say in the decision to release the compilation album,[4] which they complained was `nothing more than a ploy by the record company to sell product without having to pay additional production costs`.[5] Don Henley was unhappy that songs like `Tequila Sunrise` and `Desperado` were lifted out of the context of the original album in a way that he thought was detrimental to the nature, quality, and meaning of the music. He said: `All the record company was worried about were their quarterly reports. They didn`t give a shit whether the greatest hits album was good or not, they just wanted product.`[5] Despite being unhappy with the album`s release, the band nevertheless reasoned that it gave them more time to work on the Hotel California album,[6] which was released later in 1976.

Artwork
The cover of the album is an image of a piece of art created by artist Boyd Elder (aka `El Chingadero`), whose work was also used for the cover of One of These Nights.[7] The piece consists of a painted plastic cast of an eagle skull[8] against a light-blue background made of silver mylar. The bumpy appearance of the background gave rise to a myth that it was covered in cocaine powder that the band snorted after the photo shoot. The band chose not to debunk that myth, though Glenn Frey reportedly also noticed the resemblance and told Elder that the background reminded him of `a field of blow` (a slang term for cocaine).[3] The artist was paid $5,000 for his work on the cover.[8]

As with One of These Nights, the original vinyl editions of Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) featured messages printed onto the inner dead wax. In this case, `Happy New Year, Glyn` and `With Love from Bill` appear on sides one and two, respectively.

Track listing
Side one
No. Title Writer(s) Lead vocals Length
1. `Take It Easy` (from Eagles, 1972)
Glenn FreyJackson Browne
Frey 3:29
2. `Witchy Woman` (from Eagles)
Don HenleyBernie Leadon
Henley 4:10
3. `Lyin` Eyes` (from One of These Nights, 1975)
Don HenleyGlenn Frey
Frey 6:21
4. `Already Gone` (from On the Border, 1974)
Robb StrandlundJack Tempchin
Frey 4:13
5. `Desperado` (from Desperado, 1973)
Don HenleyGlenn Frey
Henley 3:33
Side two
No. Title Writer(s) Lead vocals Length
1. `One of These Nights` (from One of These Nights)
Don HenleyGlenn Frey
Henley 4:51
2. `Tequila Sunrise` (from Desperado)
Don HenleyGlenn Frey
Frey 2:52
3. `Take It to the Limit` (from One of These Nights)
Randy MeisnerDon HenleyGlenn Frey
Meisner 4:48
4. `Peaceful Easy Feeling` (from Eagles) Jack Tempchin Frey 4:16
5. `Best of My Love` (from On the Border)
Don HenleyGlenn FreyJ.D. Souther
Henley 4:35
Personnel
Eagles

Glenn Frey – guitars, vocals; piano
Bernie Leadon – guitars, backing vocals; banjo, pedal steel, mandolin
Randy Meisner – bass guitar, vocals
Don Henley – drums, vocals
Don Felder – guitars, organ on `Lyin` Eyes`, `Already Gone`, `One of These Nights`, and `Take It to the Limit`
David Sanborn - alto saxophone
Production[32]

Glyn Johns – producer
Bill Szymczyk – producer
Jim Ed Norman – string arrangements
Allan Blazek – engineer
Michael Braunstein – engineer
Howard Kilgour – engineer
Ed Mashal – engineer
Michael Verdick – engineer
Don Wood – engineer
Henry Diltz – art direction, design
Glen Christensen – art direction, design
Boyd Elder – art direction, design
Irving Azoff – direction
Steve Hoffman – digital remastering
Ted Jensen – digital remastering