Glenn Frey was the Eagles' 'spark plug' – invaluable, driven, reliable

The guitarist and singer who introduced a generation to country-rock was a determined perfectionist with a good head for business. But it was his voice and his songwriting that made the Eagles the biggest-selling US band of all time
If the Eagles were America’s band, Glenn Frey was the one who helped make them so. “Glenn was the one who started it all,” the band’s co-leader Don Henley wrote on hearing of Frey’s death on Monday 18 January. “He was the spark plu