DONAL2228 - Tequila Sunrise
DONAL2228
Apr 16, 2025 12:00am
<p>THE EAGLES....TEQUILA SUNRISE...FOR BEST SOUND AND STEREO SEPARATION, LISTEN WITH EARPHONES!</p><p><br></p><p>Glenn Frey and Don Henley did not write songs together for their debut album, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagles_(album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);"><em>Eagles</em></a><em>,</em> and after they had finished recording the album in London, they decided that they should collaborate. In the first week of their partnership, they wrote "Tequila Sunrise" and "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desperado_(Eagles_song)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Desperado</a>". According to Frey, the song was finished fairly quickly. He said he was lying on a couch playing the guitar, and came up with a guitar riff he described as "kinda <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Orbison" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Roy Orbison</a>, kinda Mexican". He demonstrated it for Henley and said: "Maybe we should write something to this." The title refers to a cocktail named <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tequila_sunrise_(cocktail)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Tequila Sunrise</a> that was then popular. In the liner notes of 2003's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Very_Best_of_(Eagles_album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);"><em>The Very Best Of</em></a>, Henley had this to say about the song:</p><blockquote>I believe that was a Glenn title. I think he was ambivalent about it because he thought that it was a bit too obvious or too much of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clich%C3%A9" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">cliché</a> because of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tequila_sunrise_(cocktail)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">the drink</a> that was so popular then. I said, 'No - look at it from a different point of view. You've been drinking straight tequila all night and the sun is coming up!' It turned out to be a really great song.</blockquote><p><br></p>