Hotel California<\/a><\/em> lyrics dates back to the late Seventies, when the Eagles contracted the writer Ed Sanders to write a biography about the band. Sanders was given an array of research material for the book, including the notepads with the lyrics. While the book was scrapped just one year later, Sanders reportedly held onto the research material for more than two decades.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\tAccording to Horowitz\u2019s new suit, in 2005, he and business partner John McWhinnie purchased the handwritten lyrics from\u00a0Sanders. Over the next several years, the lyrics were bought and sold a few times, with Horowitz and McWhinnie always involved; eventually, in 2012, the lyrics ended up in the hands of former Rock & Roll Hall of Fame curator Craig Inciardi and rock memorabilia dealer Edward Kosinski. At this point, Horowitz claims, his affiliation with the lyrics was \u201cterminated\u201d and \u201cnever to be reassumed.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tIt was after Inciardi and Kosinski tried to put excerpts from the lyrics up for auction that Henley became involved. According to Horowitz\u2019s suit, Henley\u2019s lawyer reached out to Kosinski about selling some of the notepads back to Henley. A sales agreement for one notepad was drawn up and executed in April 2012 for $8,500. In court, Henley testified that he resented \u201cbuying my own property back\u201d but told the court that it was \u201cthe most practical and expedient way\u201d to remove the auction listing. In doing so, Horowitz claims, Henley and others\u00a0 \u201cboth implicitly and explicitly recognized the legitimacy of the handwritten lyrics as neither counterfeit nor stolen.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
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\n\tAt the same time, however, the lawsuit claims that Henley filed a report with the Los Angeles Sheriff\u2019s Department\u00a0 \u201cin which he falsely alleged\u201d that the papers \u201cconstituted stolen property and [were] unlawfully in the possession of Ed Kosinski and Craig Inciardi.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tAccording to the suit, Inciardi and Kosinski kept trying to sell the lyric sheets over the next few years, and Henley kept trying to stop them. After the musician, with the help of Azoff, tried to block a sale of the \u201cHotel California\u201d draft lyrics in 2016, the Manhattan DA\u2019s office got involved. (Kosinski and Inciardi were the two other co-defendants in the eventually-abandoned criminal case.)<\/p>\n
\n\tHorowitz claims that Henley \u201cknew or should have known\u201d that Horowitz \u201clawfully owned and possessed the handwritten lyrics as of 2005 and lawfully exercised his right of sale thereof in 2012.\u201d Nevertheless, the suit continues, Henley \u201cpursued and materially assisted tin the commencement and continuation of criminal proceedings against [Horowitz] by making false statement to law authorities\u2026 with malicious intent to wrongfully imrpison him and cause adverse publicity to his business.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tHenley, for his part, has always maintained that the notepads were his property. He claimed that the contract Sanders signed stipulated that all \u201cmaterials\u201d given to him for his research remained the property of the Eagles, meaning he had no right to sell them.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tWhen Henley testified<\/a> at the criminal trial last year, he told the court: \u201cThere is no tape or document anywhere where I say, \u2018Mr. Sanders, you\u2019re free to keep these items in perpetuity, and you\u2019re free to sell them.\u2019\u201d He later added, \u201cI had a common-sense understanding that [Sanders] would return the material when he was done with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rare-books dealer previously accused of trying to sell stolen copies of handwritten Eagles lyrics has filed a lawsuit of his own against Don Henley and manager Irving Azoff.\u00a0 Glenn Horowitz was one of three defendants who faced criminal charges last year for conspiring to possess stolen property \u2014 in this case, over 100 pages […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}