{"id":117960,"date":"2024-07-01T18:02:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T18:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/07\/01\/eagles-don-henley-sues-to-get-hotel-california-lyric-sheets-back\/"},"modified":"2024-07-01T18:02:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T18:02:11","slug":"eagles-don-henley-sues-to-get-hotel-california-lyric-sheets-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/07\/01\/eagles-don-henley-sues-to-get-hotel-california-lyric-sheets-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles&#8217; Don Henley sues to get &#8216;Hotel California; lyric sheets back"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-07-01\/Getty_DonHenley_070124.jpg\" alt><figcaption> Simone Joyner\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Eagles<\/strong>\u2019 <strong>Don Henley<\/strong> has filed a lawsuit to get his handwritten notes and lyrics back.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The lyric sheets in question are for songs from the\u00a0band\u2019s classic album <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Hotel California<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">. They were the subject of a criminal trial earlier this year, in which three men \u2014\u00a0<strong>Craig Inciardi<\/strong>, rock memorabilia dealer <strong>Edward Kosinski<\/strong> and rare-books dealer <strong>Glenn Horowitz\u00a0<\/strong>\u2014 were accused of trying to auction them off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The trio claimed they got the sheets from writer <strong>Ed Sanders<\/strong>, who came into possession of the\u00a0documents when he worked on Henley\u2019s never-published biography. Henley had argued that the sheets were stolen and not given to Sanders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The case was eventually dismissed due to a late disclosure of documents by Henley\u2019s team; the lyric sheets have been in the custody of the New York district attorney ever since. Now Henley\u2019s new suit against just Inciardi and Kosinki is seeking to have a court declare he is the rightful owner of the documents and that they be returned to him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cBecause Kosinski and Inciardi have also claimed title over Henley&#8217;s lyric sheets, the issue must be decided in a civil court with appropriate jurisdiction,\u201d reads the lawsuit. \u201cHenley therefore seeks a declaration from this Court that he is the lawful owner of his seized lyric sheets to provide the \u2018satisfactory proof of his title\u2019 that will facilitate the District Attorney&#8217;s return of his property.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simone Joyner\/Getty Images Eagles\u2019 Don Henley has filed a lawsuit to get his handwritten notes and lyrics back. The lyric sheets in question are for songs from the\u00a0band\u2019s classic album Hotel California. They were the subject of a criminal trial earlier this year, in which three men \u2014\u00a0Craig Inciardi, rock<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/07\/01\/eagles-don-henley-sues-to-get-hotel-california-lyric-sheets-back\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,430,452],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}