This is Jane Pauli. The Eagles have been making music for decades, 55 years and counting.

And with their greatest hits album marking its golden anniversary, Sunday morning's Tracy Smith

has plenty of questions for the great Don Henley.

Let's talk big picture Eagles first.

Okay.

I think in response to the recent record that the Eagles set, which we'll talk about in the second,

one writer said,

and I'm going to paraphrase this, there's one thing in America that people agree on or seem to

agree on, and it's the Eagles. I don't know if I would agree with that. You don't think so? Why not?

We have our detractors. I don't think people in America agree on very much of anything right now.

But we are, I guess we're kind of a staple. You know, we've been around for a long time.

We're some of the last of our generation to still be playing live.

The band started in 1971.

Our first record came out in 72.

And we've been touring on and off since then,

of 53 years of playing for people.

So it's been a miraculous run.

And it's a run that people have heavily invested their hearts and their money in.

You just, eagles their greatest hits, just set a record of being a quadruple diamond seller.

Mm-hmm.

Something that has never happened before in history. What was your reaction when you heard that?

Amazement and gratitude. I mean, I knew we were getting, I heard a year, two or three ago,

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