The Eagles Hotel California court case lifts lid on ‘pampered rock stars’

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} The Eagles' manager once told their biographer that his book wasn't getting published because of friction from “a pampered rock star,” a court heard on Thursday. Azoff said he found the draft's discussion of the Eagles’ breakup “unacceptable" and the band never authorized publication because the book “wasn't very good.” “It didn’t, to me, capture the essence of the joy of the story,” Azoff added on the witness stand Thursday, elaborating about the Eagles “chasing the American dream and how important they were to establishing Southern California as a mecca of music." “Somebody else might have thought it was very good," he said, but "we didn’t think it was good for the Eagles.” Defendant memorabilia seller Edward Kosinski arrives at supreme court Then one of Kosinski's lawyers played a recording of Azoff proclaiming he was “phenomenally, absolutely happy” with the book. Asked on the witness stand who the “pampered rock star” was, Azoff said: “Probably all of them.” “You'd agree that you told Mr. Sanders that the book was going to come out when ‘God Henley’ says it can?” attorney Scott Edelman asked at another point.