Glenn Frey is a rock singer.
`` Already Gone '' is a song recorded by the American rock band Eagles for their 1974 album On the Border . The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1971 by Glenn Frey , Don Henley , Bernie Leadon , and Randy Meisner . Glenn Lewis Frey ( [ fraɪ ] November 6 , 1948 -- January 18 , 2016 ) was an American singer , songwriter and actor , best known as a founding member of the rock band Eagles . Frey was the lead singer and frontman for the Eagles , roles he came to share with fellow member Don Henley , with whom he wrote most of the Eagles ' material .