The Eagles: Desperados in Blue Jeans and Sneakers
Barbara Charone, Sounds, 27 March 1976
EXACTLY TWO years ago a very hazy Los Angeles sun shone dimly through the polluted clouds onto the suburban racetrack that housed the California Jam. ABC TV, who financed and filmed the event, will still tell you it was the most historical pop concert since Woodstock. And indeed it was.
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