Glenn Frey Ronstadt needed a backup band for an upcoming tour, her manager John Boylan hired Frey because he needed someone who could play rhythm guitar and sing. Don Henley was approached by Frey to join Ronstadt. Randy Meisner and Bernie Leadon were also hired, although as the backing band personnel changed through the tour, the four had only played once together at a gig at Disneyland. Frey and Henley decided to form a band together while on the tour, and they were joined by Meisner on bass and Leadon on guitar, banjo, steel guitar, mandolin and dobro, forming the Eagles, with
Glenn Morris died of congestive heart failure "and other complications" at the veterans hospital in Palo Alto, California, in 1974 and was buried in Skylawn Memorial Park in San Mateo, California. He was married from 1937 to 1940 to Charlotte Edwards, whom he had met in college. In 2013 a novel with the title "Olympic Affair" was published by Terry Frei in which he depicts the life of Morris. In this book Frei imagines what the affair with Leni Riefenstahl would be like. Glenn Morris Glenn Edgar Morris (June 18, 1912 – January 31, 1974) was a U.S. track and field athlete.