The Eagles: What you need to know

The Eagles: Timothy B. Schmidt, Glenn Frey, Don Henley and Joe Walsh.

Are you attending the final Eagles show at Mt Smart Stadium tonight. Here's a handy preview guide ...

Updated Sunday playing times

On Sunday...

Gates open at 4.30pm

Eagles on stage at 6pm (concert shifted forward due to worsening weather)

Event concludes approximately 9.15pm

Promoters are advising no umbrellas are permitted and wet weather clothing is recommended as the venue is outdoor stadium with many areas not under cover.

Keep that cellphone holstered

The band is insisting you don't photograph or video or text during the show and if you've got to make a call, go do it out of the way somewhere.

And while it's framed as a "special request from The Eagles Management", the phone thing is backed up with the line: "Please note that failure to comply with this request will result in being removed from the venue."

Oh and don't stand up during the "intimate ballad portions of the performance".

So you want to party like it's 1979?

Be patient. This is the The History of the Eagles tour named after the band's authorised 2013 documentary.

So the show will start out as a chronological lesson on the band's past with mainstays Glenn Frey and Don Henley beginning by playing early material acoustically, before the rest of the band gradually join in for the rest of the three-hour performance.

Yes, they will get to those classic rock anthems, eventually.

Could these be the last Eagles shows ever?

The band are all in their late 60s. The Auckland shows are the last scheduled on the History tour. Talking to TimeOut last year, Henley wouldn't be drawn on whether this was the Eagles' last stand

"I think this is going to last for a while actually and so we're not really worrying too much about the future right now. We are just riding this wave."

The band has just announced another two dozen or so dates in the United States in the northern summer.

Eagles facts as conversation starters while waiting in line for that overpriced beer.

This is the fourth time the Eagles have played in New Zealand and it's 40 years since their first show which was at Carlaw Park, the then home of rugby league in the city. They played at Western Springs in 1978 and on their Hell Freezes Over reunion tour in 1995.

The Eagles' Their Greatest Hits (1971-75) album is the third biggest seller in music history, having sold some 42 million copies.

That Joe Walsh guy has been here a couple more times right?

Yep. And he's staying on after the show too. Walsh will be attending a powhiri at the historic Otatara Pa site in Hawkes Bay on Tuesday.

His ties to New Zealand extend back to when he came here in the late 80s/early 90s producing - and briefly joining - local reggae band Herbs.

Walsh last visited the pa in 2004 saying on a previous visit to the area (during the Herbs period) he had an epiphany which led him to seek help for his drug and alcohol problems.

He also played an anti-drugs concert for MPs at Parliament in 2004.

Transport and gate information and all that

More information, including details about free public transport to the venue is available here

We can't believe it either...

... but not everyone likes the Eagles. Or some just don't like admitting they like the songs.

Here's Canvas columnist James Griffin on that here.

And here's one of the band's most famous critics...