Don Henley

Donald Henley (born July 22, 1947 in Gilmer, Texas) is an American rock musician who is the drummer and one of the lead singers and songwriters of the band The Eagles. He has since had a successful solo career and has played a founding role in several causes.

Causes

In 1990 Henley founded the Walden Woods Project to help protect Walden Pond from development. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods was started in 1998 to provide for research and education regarding Henry David Thoreau.

Related Topics:
Walden Pond - Henry David Thoreau

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Henley co-founded the non-profit Caddo Lake Institute in 1993 to underwrite ecological education and research. As part of the Caddo Lake Coalition, CLI helps protect the Texas wetland where Henley spent much of his childhood.

Related Topics:
Caddo Lake - Ecological - Wetland

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In 2000 Henley co-founded with Sheryl Crow the Recording Artists' Coalition, a group founded to protect musicians' rights against common music industry business practices. In this role he testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary in 2001 http://judiciary.senate.gov/testimony.cfm?id=198&wit_id=261

Related Topics:
Sheryl Crow - Recording Artists' Coalition - U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary

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and the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation in 2003 http://www.azoz.com/news/0019d.html.

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Henley is not always an idealist. In a March 2001 interview on Charlie Rose, he stated that "rock bands work best as a benevolent dictatorship," with the principal songwriters in a band ("me and Glenn Frey") being the ones that will hold the power.

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