The Very Best Of (Eagles album)

The Very Best Of
Greatest hits album by Eagles
Released	October 21, 2003
Recorded	1972-2003
Genre	Rock
Length	140:48
Label	Warner Strategic Marketing
Producer	Glyn Johns, Bill Szymczyk, Eagles, Elliot Schiner and Rob Jacobs
Eagles chronology
Selected Works: 1972–1999 (2000) The Very Best Of (2003) Eagles (2005)
The Complete Greatest Hits
European album cover

The Very Best Of (released as The Complete Greatest Hits in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand) is a two-disc compilation album by the Eagles, released in 2003.^[1] This album combines all tracks that appeared on the two previously released Eagles greatest hits albums (Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) & Eagles Greatest Hits, Vol. 2), along with other singles not included on the first two compilations, album tracks and the new track "Hole in the World".

The Very Best Of was also released as a limited-edition three-disc set with the third disc being a bonus DVD containing the video for the new song "Hole in the World," as well as a making of the video featurette and "Backstage Pass to Farewell 1."

Commercial performance

The album debuted on the Billboard 200 on November 8, 2003 at number 3, with 162,000 copies sold. It spent 62 weeks on the chart. The album was certified and awarded gold, platinum, and double platinum records by the RIAA on December 17, 2003, and on December 13, 2004, it achieved triple platinum status. The album has sold over 5 million units in the United States.^[2]

As of December 2007, it has spent over 325 weeks in the Irish Album Charts, effectively not having left the chart since its release. In the UK the album (as The Complete Greatest Hits) entered the charts on November 1, 2003 at its initial number 27 peak position, the album did however re-enter the charts in June 2006 when it peaked at number 9 on the UK Albums Chart.

Track listing

• Tracks 1–3 from Eagles (1972)
• Tracks 4–6 from Desperado (1973)
• Tracks 7–12 from On the Border (1974)
• Tracks 13–16 from One of These Nights (1975)
• Track 17 from Hotel California (1976)

• Tracks 1-5 from Hotel California (1976)
• Track 6 was a non-album single (1978)
• Tracks 7-12 from The Long Run (1979)
• Track 13 from Eagles Live (1980)
• Tracks 14 and 15 from Hell Freezes Over (1994)
• Track 16 is a new track (2003)

Personnel

• Glenn Frey – guitars, piano, keyboards, percussion, vocals
• Don Henley – drums, percussion, guitars, vocals
• Randy Meisner – bass guitar, guitars, guitarrone, vocals (disc one and songs 1–5 on disc two)
• Bernie Leadon – guitars, banjo, mandolin, pedal steel guitar, vocals (songs 1–16 on disc one)
• Don Felder – guitars, keyboards, synthesizers, vocals (songs 7, 13–17 on disc one and songs 1–15 on disc two)
• Joe Walsh – guitars, keyboards, organ, synthesizer, vocals (song 17 on disc one and all of disc two)
• Timothy B. Schmit – bass guitar, vocals (songs 6–16 on disc two)

Additional personnel

• Steuart Smith – guitars (song 16 on disc two)
• Scott Crago – drums, percussion (songs 14–16 on disc two)
• Willie Hollis – piano (songs 14–16 on disc two)
• Jim Ed Norman – piano, string arrangements (songs 4, 13, 15 on disc one and songs 2, 4 on disc two)
• David Sanborn – alto saxophone (song 8 on disc two)
• Al Perkins – pedal steel guitar (song 10 on disc one)

Production

• Producers: Glyn Johns, Bill Szymczyk, Eagles, Elliot Schiner and Rob Jacobs
• Engineers: Allan Blazek, Michael Braunstein, Glyn Johns, Ed Mashal, Bill Szymczyk, Michael Verdick, Don Wood
• Assistant engineers: Allan Blazek, Howard Kilgour, Tom Trafalski
• Remastering: Ted Jensen
• String arrangements: Jim Ed Norman

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Charts and certifications

References