Photo Archive: Poco, 1989









Photographer: James Shea. Art director: DZN, the Design Group.

Original photo used for back cover, plus outtake.Â
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Photos show band members Billy Swan, Jimmy Griffin, and Randy Meisner. The second photo includes producer Reggie Fisher (top).


The Eagles pose following a press conference in Hamburg during their European tour. Read more here.






Prior to their show at the Rotterdam Ahoy, the Eagles were presented with an award from their record company, WEA (Warner-Elektra-Atlantic), for exceeding half a million in record sales in the Netherlands.





Photographer Gary McGuire was Glenn Frey’s first cousin (read an interview with him here.) Photos from this session were used in the Hotel California Songbook. There are group photos plus single photos of Glenn and Randy.








Photos of Glenn and Randy.


A photo from this session was used on the cover of the trade publication Record World (May 8, 1976).



These images were taken in Miami while the Eagles were recording Hotel California at Criteria Studios. They are dated by the June 24th, 1976 issue of the Miami Herald Don Henley is reading in the third photo. The hotel and restaurant photos were taken at a Howard Johnson’s in Miami. Many of these photos were originally published in the Eagles’ Hotel California Song Book and Tour Book.











Don Henley is reading from a Miami Herald newspaper dated June 24th, 1976.
The placemat on Randy’s table matches a placemat from Howard Johnson’s restaurant.


Randy is wearing Fred Perry Etonic tennis shoes, named for the famous tennis player.

