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
Jacob Frey Jacob Frey Jacob Frey ( ; born July 23, 1981) is the mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota. A member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, he was elected to the Minneapolis City Council in 2013, representing the Third Ward. Frey ran for mayor in 2017 and won. He was sworn into office on January 2, 2018. Frey grew up in Oakton, Virginia, a Washington, D.C. suburb, and received a track scholarship to attend the College of William & Mary, from which he graduated in 2004. His family is of Russian-Jewish descent. After graduating with a degree in government, Frey received a contract