The Tragic Death Of Joe Walsh's Daughter

The car spun out of control, right into a fence across the street, with Emma sustaining massive trauma to the head. The toddler was taken off life support later that day, just weeks before her third birthday.

Her death caused rising tensions in the Walsh family, with Rhodes and Walsh splitting officially soon after. "The accident kind of did us in," Rhodes later said, as reported by the Daily Camera. "We divorced shortly afterward." The Eagles guitarist memorialized his suffering during the dark period in his 1974 solo album "So What" including the title track "Song for Emma".

"To help with closure, I wrote this song for her," Walsh told Rolling Stone in 2016. "And over the process of the next year, my wife and I, we just weren't strong enough to get through the grief and so we separated and eventually got divorced. But I met a girl in Los Angeles, and my song 'Help Me Through the Night' was to her about being there for me. Because I was a wreck. But she was there so that I could grieve Emma."

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