How alcoholics come to arrive at AA is another strong predictor of their future sobriety. Call it the Big Boss effect. One study found that people who were directed to attend the program by a counselor or physician boasted abstinence rates of 60 percent.
Sharon Summerall and Don Henley have been married for 21 years. They were dating for 5 months after getting together in Jan 1994. After 11 months of engagement they married on 20th May 1995.
I remember reading a long time ago that Don Henley was an English major at college in Texas before he moved to California. It may be possible that he was inspired to write this song from a poem by the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas called I See the Boys of Summer''.