'I Feel Like We're Getting Toward the End': The Eagles Set to Retire in 2026

The Eagles could be about to retire.

Don Henley announced in an interview on CBS Sunday Morning this week (as per Louder Sound) that the legendary band will retire in 2026 once their current tour ends.

“I think this year will probably be it," he said. "And I’ve said things like that before, but I feel like we’re getting toward the end, and that will be fine, too. I'm okay with that."

“Three of us are 78 years old now, including yours truly," he noted, referring to longtime bandmates Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit. "We all have various ailments."

"We've had a great run, an extraordinary run and and left people with a lot of good memories, and some good music and and I'll be fine when that's done," he added.

The Eagles will finish their final shows of their massive 56-night residency at the Sphere in Las Vegas next month. The final show on their schedule is currently the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on May 2nd.

"I don't ever want to have a one-dimensional life," he continued. "I mean, this is great, this is wonderful, but there are other things."

In other Eagles show news, the band played their first show without guitarist Joe Walsh last month.

Walsh came down with the flu ahead of their concert at the Sphere in Las Vegas on January 24th, which meant they played their first show without him since he joined the band in 1975.

“We had a choice to make,” Don Henley told the crowd (as per Rolling Stone). “We could either cancel the whole thing, or we could man up and do the show. So we came down here this afternoon and had an emergency rehearsal for two hours. And fortunately, in this band, we have a deep bench.”