donnica59 - Desperado

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donnica59

Sep 21, 2026 01:12pm

<ol><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><span style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 235, 212);">Don Henley has always been unhappy about his vocal on this song. </span></li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><br></li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><span style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 235, 212);">He explained to </span><em style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 235, 212);">Mojo</em><span style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 235, 212);"> in 2015: "When we are in England, recording 'Desperado,' </span></li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><span style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 235, 212);">I was a nervous wreck. </span></li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><span style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 235, 212);">I was standing in this huge room, Island Studios, a big orchestra right behind me, and they were bored to tears. </span></li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><span style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 235, 212);">Some older gentleman had brought chessboards and they would play between takes. </span></li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><span style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 235, 212);">I would hear these remarks like, 'Well, you know, I don't feel much like a desperado.' </span></li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><span style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 235, 212);">I was so intimidated that I didn't sing my best.</span></li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><span style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 235, 212);"> Our producer Glyn Johns, who is still a friend of mine, I think, wanted to get the album done quickly and economically, and he didn't let me do many takes. I wish I could have done that song again."</span></li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><span style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102);">This was the last song the Eagles performed in concert with Glenn Frey.</span></li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><span style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102);"> It closed out their show in Bossier City, Louisiana on July 29, 2015, the last stop on their History of the Eagles tour. </span></li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><span style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102);">Frey died about six months later.</span></li></ol><p><br></p>