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JD Souther, Singer Who Co-Wrote Eagles Classics Like ‘New Kid in Town,’ Dies at 78
JD Souther, the singer, songwriter and actor who co-wrote hits of the Eagles like "New Kid in Town" and "Best of My Love," died Tuesday.
Even Glenn Frey once said — and he was kind of joking because he knows how the royalty thing works — but he said, ‘One of the reasons JD didn’t have a bigger solo career is because he gave us or Linda Ronstadt most of his best songs.’ And that’s sort of true. One interruption in his early solo career came when he, Chris Hillman and Richie Furay were corralled to form a supergroup, the Souther-Hillman-Furay Band, which fell apart after two mid-’70s albums went almost instantly to the cutout bins. Following that, he took a 24-year release from record-making, preferring life in the home he had built for himself in the Hollywood Hills, and ski trips to New England or retreats in Japan, to continuing to work in the music industry.
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