Desperado

RS Cover Reprints
Buy the Album at Rhino.com

Written by: Glenn Frey, Don Henley
Produced by: Bill Szymczyk
Released: April '73 on Asylum
Charts: Non-single

"Desperado" was the title track of the Eagles' second LP, a concept album about outlaws in the Old West. "In retrospect, I admit the whole cowboy-outlaw-rocker myth was a bit bogus," Henley said in 1987. "I don't think we really believed it; we were just trying to make an analogy."

Appears on: Desperado (Elektra)

Next: Shop Around

Back to RS 500 Albums!
Back to RS 500 Songs!