lloyd_63 - Desperado
lloyd_63
May 13, 2021 08:54pm
<p>Wikipedia sez:</p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">"</span><strong style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">Desperado</strong><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">" is a song by the American rock band the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagles_(band)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Eagles</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">. The track was written by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Frey" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Glenn Frey</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Henley" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Don Henley</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> and appeared on the 1973 album </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desperado_(Eagles_album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128);"><em>Desperado</em></a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> . </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">According to Henley, "Desperado" was based on a song he started in 1968, written in the style of old songs by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Foster" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Stephen Foster</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">. The song was originally about a friend named Leo and began with "Leo, my God, why don't you come to your senses..." In 1972, after they had recorded their first album </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagles_(album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128);"><em>Eagles</em></a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> in London, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Frey" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Glenn Frey</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> and Henley decided that they should write songs together, and within a day or two after returning from London, they wrote "Desperado". They also wrote "</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tequila_Sunrise_(song)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Tequila Sunrise</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">" in the first week of their collaboration. In their first songwriting session at Henley's home in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_Canyon,_Los_Angeles" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">, Henley played Frey the unfinished version of the song, and said: "When I play it and sing it, I think of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Charles" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ray Charles</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> and Stephen Foster. It's really a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Gothic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Southern Gothic</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> thing, but we can easily make it more Western." According to Henley, Frey "leapt right on it – filled in the blanks and brought structure", and the song became "Desperado". Henley added: "And that was the beginning of our songwriting partnership ... that's when we became a team."</span></p>