Joseph Fidler Walsh was born on November 20, 1947, in Wichita, Kansas. His father, Lt. Robert Newton Fidler, was a flight instructor for the Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star in the United States Air Force and died in a plane crash in Okinawa on 22 July 1949. Walsh's mother was a classically trained pianist of Scottish and German ancestry.

Walsh was adopted by his stepfather at the age of five and given his stepfather's surname, but retained Fidler as his middle name. He is an American rock singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. In a career spanning more than 50 years, he has been a member of three successful rock bands: James Gang, Eagles, and Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band.

Walsh reached a national audience as a member of the James Gang, whose hit song "Funk #49" highlighted his skill as both a guitarist and singer.

Walsh has also experienced success both as a solo artist and as a prolific session musician, being featured on a wide array of other artists' recordings. In 2011, "Rolling Stone" placed him at the No. 54 spot on its list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".

Walsh joined the Eagles in 1975 as the band's guitarist and keyboardist following the departure of their founding member Bernie Leadon, with "Hotel California" being his first album with the band. In 1998, a reader's poll conducted by "Guitarist magazine" selected the guitar solos on the track "Hotel California" by Walsh and Don Felder as the best guitar solos of all time.

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