Eliot: Music insanity followed film craziness

The wind-chill reading dipped to 9 degrees this morning. That's just too cold for me.
I'm trying to warm myself up by reading MARC ELIOT'S fiery tell-all, "TO THE LIMIT: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE EAGLES."
There haven't been many scandalous revelations thus far in the tale. GLENN FREY, DON HENLEY, RANDY MEISNER and BERNIE LEADON have come from various backgrounds (none in CALIFORNIA) to form the band that would define the West Coast sound of the 1970s.
I am intrigued how DAVID GEFFEN rose to power -- it was Geffen who launched the Eagles' career, having determined that the old guard of the music industry was growing increasingly out of touch with music's vanguard.
Eliot likens Geffen's creation of Asylum Records to the quest for creative freedom taken by silent film stars Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith when they broke away from the movie establishment to found United Artists.
"It was considered by everyone in Hollywood to be the height of insanity, a case of the inmates running the asylum," Eliot writes of the film stars' decision. "Now, it was rock and roll's rubber room that was about to run amok, as Geffen swung the door to his version of creative freedom wide open."
As I delve deeper into Eliot's book, I am sure to discover the musical madness that awaits.