Randall H. Meisner

(1946- ) born at Scottsbluff, lived at Mitchell. Musician, singer and composer, as bassist and vocalist and composer for the rock band The Eagles from 1972 to 1977, he and the group received four Grammy Awards, including the 1977 Record of The Year for “Hotel California,” and later the Recording Industry Association of America certified the group’s album Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 as one of the bestselling albums in history; after time off, he later formed his own band to make solo records, and in 1998 he and other members of The Eagles were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at Cleveland, Ohio. Consult Lincoln Journal, July 24, 1978, p. 14 and People Weekly, January 12, 1981, pp. 74-75 and Comtemporary Musicians, Vol 3 (Gale, 1990) 71-73 and The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 3rd ed., Vol 5 (MUZE UK Ltd., 1998) 3613 and Marc Eliot, To The Limit: The Untold Story of The Eagles (Little, Brown, 1998).

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