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What can you tell me about Don Henley’s The Boys Of Summer? – A

It sounds like it was plucked from the pages of a James Ellroy novel. But the famous line about seeing “a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac” was true to life. Eagles drummer Henley said: “I was driving down the freeway and got passed by a $21,000 Cadillac Seville, the status symbol of the upper-middle-class bourgeoisie and there was this Grateful Dead ‘Deadhead’ bumper sticker.”