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It is now just past 3:30 PM on the East Coast and for my this afternoon's Music Interlude I bring you a song by the Eagles written by Glen Frey and Don Henley from the Eagles' album Desperado... The Key song is by the same name and is one of the eagles' most famous songs. Paul Gambaccini of Rolling Stone felt it was Henley's rough voice that made the song memorable.
LYRICS:
"Desperado"
Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
You been out ridin' fences for so long now
Oh, you're a hard one
But I know that you got your reasons
These things that are pleasin' you
Can hurt you somehow
Don't you draw the queen of diamonds, boy
She'll beat you if she's able
You know the queen of hearts is always your best bet
Now it seems to me, some fine things
Have been laid upon your table
But you only want the ones that you can't get
Desperado, oh, you ain't gettin' no younger
Your pain and your hunger, they're drivin' you home
And freedom, oh freedom well, that's just some people talkin'
Your prison is walking through this world all alone
Don't your feet get cold in the winter time?
The sky won't snow and the sun won't shine
It's hard to tell the night time from the day
You're losin' all your highs and lows
Ain't it funny how the feeling goes away?
Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
Come down from your fences, open the gate
It may be rainin', but there's a rainbow above you
You better let somebody love you
Let somebody love you
You better let somebody love you before it's too late
Writer(s): Donald Hugh Henley, Glenn Lewis Frey
Enjoy my Brothers and Sisters!
LYRICS:
"Desperado"
Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
You been out ridin' fences for so long now
Oh, you're a hard one
But I know that you got your reasons
These things that are pleasin' you
Can hurt you somehow
Don't you draw the queen of diamonds, boy
She'll beat you if she's able
You know the queen of hearts is always your best bet
Now it seems to me, some fine things
Have been laid upon your table
But you only want the ones that you can't get
Desperado, oh, you ain't gettin' no younger
Your pain and your hunger, they're drivin' you home
And freedom, oh freedom well, that's just some people talkin'
Your prison is walking through this world all alone
Don't your feet get cold in the winter time?
The sky won't snow and the sun won't shine
It's hard to tell the night time from the day
You're losin' all your highs and lows
Ain't it funny how the feeling goes away?
Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
Come down from your fences, open the gate
It may be rainin', but there's a rainbow above you
You better let somebody love you
Let somebody love you
You better let somebody love you before it's too late
Writer(s): Donald Hugh Henley, Glenn Lewis Frey
Enjoy my Brothers and Sisters!
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Our Dearest Brother, and, Most Adored Kerry: I thank thee; for thy posting this video! Sgt (Join to see)!!!
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Thank you my friend Sgt (Join to see) for posting the music video of The Eagles performing the classic country-rock song Desperado written by Glen Frey and Don Henley.
Since you posted the lyrics, here is some of the song background from https://www.songfacts.com/facts/eagles/desperado
"On the surface, this song is about a cowboy who refuses to fall in love, but it could also be about a young man who discovers guitars, joins a band, pays his dues and suffers for his art. The stress of being a rock star is a recurring theme in Eagles music (e.g. "Life In The Fast Lane"). The overall theme is how you must suffer for your art. >>
Don Henley began writing parts of this in the late '60s, but it wasn't arranged into a song until his songwriting teammate Glenn Frey came along. It was the first of many songs Henley and Frey wrote together.
Henley explained in the liner notes for The Very Best of the Eagles: "Glenn came over to write one day, and I showed him this unfinished tune that I had been holding for so many years. I said, 'When I play it and sing it, I think of Ray Charles - Ray Charles and Stephen Foster. It's really a Southern gothic thing, but we can easily make it more Western.' Glenn leapt right on it - filled in the blanks and brought structure. And that was the beginning of our songwriting partnership - that's when we became a team."
The album had an Old West theme. It was inspired by The Dalton Gang, a notorious group of outlaws. The Eagles recorded it in the very cosmopolitan setting of Island Studios in the Notting Hill section of London with the British producer Glyn Johns, but they went Western for the tour, making their set look like Deadwood.
Country music is filled with songs that look beyond the archetype to show the nuanced emotions of a cowboy, but "Desperado" was a touchstone in bringing this kind of song to the rock genre. One of its most famous descendants is Bon Jovi's 1986 song "Wanted Dead Or Alive," which draws similar parallels between the life of a cowboy and that of a rock star.
"Desperado," the title track to the second Eagles album, is a classic rock staple, but it was never released as a single. Holding it back from single release helped boost sales of the album, and also the various compilations it would later appear on.
Linda Ronstadt recorded this song and released it on her 1973 album Don't Cry Now a few months after the Eagles' Desperado album was issued. Don Henley and Glenn Frey toured as part of Ronstadt's backing band in 1971 and formed the Eagles shortly after playing on her 1972 self-titled album, which also featured the two members they recruited to round out the group: Randy Meisner and Bernie Leadon. Ronstadt was very supportive, encouraging Henley and Frey to form the group even though it meant losing some of her best talent.
Ronstadt was a once-in-a-generation singer who was well known in the industry but still a club act until her single "You're No Good" took off in 1975. It took five albums for Ronstadt to find her groove, but the Eagles made inroads right away, landing a hit with their first single in 1972, "Take It Easy."
Ronstadt's "Desperado" wasn't released as a single, but it exposed the song to a much wider (mostly female) audience. "I was extremely flattered that Linda recorded 'Desperado,'" Don Henley said. "It was really her that popularized the song. Her version was very poignant and beautiful."
It's worth noting that Ronstadt and the Eagles were all transplants to Los Angeles, where they found each other. She was from Arizona, Henley was from Texas, Frey was from Michigan, Meisner was from Nebraska, and Leadon was from San Diego."
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Since you posted the lyrics, here is some of the song background from https://www.songfacts.com/facts/eagles/desperado
"On the surface, this song is about a cowboy who refuses to fall in love, but it could also be about a young man who discovers guitars, joins a band, pays his dues and suffers for his art. The stress of being a rock star is a recurring theme in Eagles music (e.g. "Life In The Fast Lane"). The overall theme is how you must suffer for your art. >>
Don Henley began writing parts of this in the late '60s, but it wasn't arranged into a song until his songwriting teammate Glenn Frey came along. It was the first of many songs Henley and Frey wrote together.
Henley explained in the liner notes for The Very Best of the Eagles: "Glenn came over to write one day, and I showed him this unfinished tune that I had been holding for so many years. I said, 'When I play it and sing it, I think of Ray Charles - Ray Charles and Stephen Foster. It's really a Southern gothic thing, but we can easily make it more Western.' Glenn leapt right on it - filled in the blanks and brought structure. And that was the beginning of our songwriting partnership - that's when we became a team."
The album had an Old West theme. It was inspired by The Dalton Gang, a notorious group of outlaws. The Eagles recorded it in the very cosmopolitan setting of Island Studios in the Notting Hill section of London with the British producer Glyn Johns, but they went Western for the tour, making their set look like Deadwood.
Country music is filled with songs that look beyond the archetype to show the nuanced emotions of a cowboy, but "Desperado" was a touchstone in bringing this kind of song to the rock genre. One of its most famous descendants is Bon Jovi's 1986 song "Wanted Dead Or Alive," which draws similar parallels between the life of a cowboy and that of a rock star.
"Desperado," the title track to the second Eagles album, is a classic rock staple, but it was never released as a single. Holding it back from single release helped boost sales of the album, and also the various compilations it would later appear on.
Linda Ronstadt recorded this song and released it on her 1973 album Don't Cry Now a few months after the Eagles' Desperado album was issued. Don Henley and Glenn Frey toured as part of Ronstadt's backing band in 1971 and formed the Eagles shortly after playing on her 1972 self-titled album, which also featured the two members they recruited to round out the group: Randy Meisner and Bernie Leadon. Ronstadt was very supportive, encouraging Henley and Frey to form the group even though it meant losing some of her best talent.
Ronstadt was a once-in-a-generation singer who was well known in the industry but still a club act until her single "You're No Good" took off in 1975. It took five albums for Ronstadt to find her groove, but the Eagles made inroads right away, landing a hit with their first single in 1972, "Take It Easy."
Ronstadt's "Desperado" wasn't released as a single, but it exposed the song to a much wider (mostly female) audience. "I was extremely flattered that Linda recorded 'Desperado,'" Don Henley said. "It was really her that popularized the song. Her version was very poignant and beautiful."
It's worth noting that Ronstadt and the Eagles were all transplants to Los Angeles, where they found each other. She was from Arizona, Henley was from Texas, Frey was from Michigan, Meisner was from Nebraska, and Leadon was from San Diego."
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