Kenny Rogers and Don Henley's first taste of success

Kenny Rogers and Don Henley's first taste of success

Growing up in a small town in East Texas, Don Henley knew what it was like to feel disconnected from the world around him. At the time, one of the only ways to pass the time was to listen to the radio, through which Henley discovered the world beyond his small hometown, helping him through those ‘difficult adolescent years’ like ‘a friend in the dark’. From there, it was like Henley was always destined to make it in music. In school, his footbal…