RIP, Glenn Frey
From around the year 2000, Frey suffered from rheumatoid arthritis, which affected various joints in his body. The medication he was prescribed eventually led to colitis and pneumonia. By November 2015, the Eagles announced they were postponing their concert at the Kennedy Center Honors because Frey needed surgery.
Glenn Frey. Photo By Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock
He never had the surgery, though, due to complications from pneumonia. He was placed in a medically-induced coma and died on January 18, 2016 at 67 years old. A couple of years later, Frey’s widow filed a lawsuit against Mount Sinai Hospital and the gastroenterologist, Steven Itzkowitz, for the “wrongful death” of her husband. At the 58th Annual Grammy Awards, the remaining Eagles members performed Take It Easy in his honor.