How do you follow the best-selling album of the 20th century? By releasing the 5th best-selling original album, that's how. But the success of Hotel California brought a dark side: fist fights, scandals, arrests, and eventually genuine tragedy.

FURTHER READING

1991 GQ interview with Don Henley about his 1980 arrest
https://archive.li/Gk6sp

The story of the death of Lana Rae Meisner, Randy Meisner's wife:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/wife-of-eagles-randy-meisner-shot-and-killed-investigation-ongoing-191471/
https://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/07/entertainment/randy-meisner-wife-shooting-feat/index.html