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"New Kid in Town" is a song by the Eagles from their 1976 studio album Hotel California. It was written by Don Henley, Glenn Frey and J.D. Souther. Released as the first single from the album, the song reached number one in the U.S. and number 20 in the UK. The single version has an earlier fade-out than the album version. The song features Glenn Frey singing the lead vocals, with Don Henley singing main harmony vocals. Randy Meisner plays the guitarrón mexicano, Don Felder plays electric guitars, and Joe Walsh plays the electric piano and organ parts.[3] The song won the Grammy Award for Best Vocal Arrangement for Two or More Voices.

"New Kid in Town"
Cover of the Spanish release
Single by Eagles
from the album Hotel California
B-side	"Victim of Love"
Released	December 7, 1976[1]
Genre	Yacht rock[2]
Length	5:04 (Album Version) 4:49 (Single Version)
Label	Asylum
Songwriter(s)	Don Henley, Glenn Frey, J.D. Souther
Producer(s)	Bill Szymczyk
Eagles singles chronology
"Take It to the Limit" (1975) "New Kid in Town" (1976) "Hotel California" (1977)

Background

J.D. Souther initially wrote the chorus for the song. According to Souther, the band thought it sounded like a hit, but he did not know what to do with it.[4] About a year later, Souther, Frey and Henley gathered for the writing of Hotel California where Souther played the song for them, and the three finished the song.[5]

Souther later said that the song came about as a result of their "fascination with gunfire as an analogy" and added that "at some point some kid would come riding into town that was much faster than you and he'd say so, and then he'd prove it." He said: "We were just writing about our replacements."[6] Similarly, Henley discussed the song's meaning in the liner notes of The Very Best Of:

It's about the fleeting, fickle nature of love and romance. It's also about the fleeting nature of fame, especially in the music business. We were basically saying, 'Look, we know we're red hot right now but we also know that somebody's going to come along and replace us — both in music and in love.'[7][4]

Eagles' biographer Marc Eliot stated that "New Kid in Town" captures "a precise and spectacular moment immediately familiar to any guy who's ever felt the pain, jealousy, insecurity, rage and heartbreak of the moment he discovers his girlfriend likes someone better and has moved on."[8] He also suggests that it captures a more abstract theme of "the fickle nature of both the muse and the masses."[8]

On Henley's first solo album, I Can't Stand Still, he references the song by singing the line "there's a new kid in town" over the rideout of "Johnny Can't Read".[9]

Critical reception

Cash Box said that "Bill Szymczyk’s production brings out the delicacy of the vocal harmonies, and the lyric here is quite effective."[10] In 2016, the editors of Rolling Stone rated "New Kid in Town" as the fifth greatest Eagles song, describing it as "an exquisite piece of south-of-the-border melancholia" and praising its complex, "overlapping harmonies."[4] These harmonies helped the song win the Grammy Award for Best Vocal Arrangement for Two or More Voices.[4][11]

Personnel

Partial credits from liner notes.[12]

• Glenn Frey – lead vocals, acoustic guitar
• Joe Walsh – Fender Rhodes electric piano, Hammond organ, backing vocals
• Don Felder – lead guitars, backing vocals
• Randy Meisner – bass, guitarrón mexicano, backing vocals
• Don Henley – drums, percussion, harmony and backing vocals

Charts

References

External links

• Listen to "New Kid in Town" on YouTube

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[de] New Kid in Town

New Kid in Town ist ein Lied von den Eagles aus dem Jahr 1976, das von Don Henley, Glenn Frey und J. D. Souther geschrieben wurde. Es erschien auf dem Album Hotel California.

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- [en] New Kid in Town

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