The Beach Boys and The Eagles at Wembley Stadium
Max Bell, NME, 28 June 1975
"HI, WE'RE THE Eagles from Los Angeles." Well that was a fact as predictable as the set those five gentleman dished up, a kind of drowsy, super-anaesthetic. Pleasant but not lethal enough.
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