EAGLES - DESPERADO - Vinyl LP- Asylum Records - 1974 - VG FREE POSTAGE (2764)
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EAGLES - DESPERADO - Vinyl LP- Asylum Records - 1974 - VG FREE POSTAGE (2764)

Eagles – Desperado is the second studio album by the American rock band Eagles, released on April 17, 1973 by Asylum Records. A concept album rooted in Old West outlaw mythology, it blends country rock, folk, and soft rock, and helped shape the Eagles’ identity as both storytellers and genre-blenders.

🎶 Tracklist

Side A:

  1. Doolin-Dalton

  2. Twenty-One

  3. Out of Control

  4. Tequila Sunrise

  5. Desperado

Side B:

  1. Certain Kind of Fool

  2. Doolin-Dalton (Instrumental)

  3. Outlaw Man

  4. Saturday Night

  5. Bitter Creek

  6. Doolin-Dalton / Desperado (Reprise)

🎛️ Production & Personnel

  • Produced by: Glyn Johns

  • Recorded at: Island Studios, London

  • Band lineup:

    • Don Henley – drums, vocals

    • Glenn Frey – guitars, vocals

    • Bernie Leadon – guitars, banjo, vocals

    • Randy Meisner – bass, vocals

  • String arrangements: Jim Ed Norman

  • Cover art: Features the band dressed as outlaws, photographed by Henry Diltz

🌟 Style & Legacy

  • Though the title track Desperado was never released as a single, it became one of the Eagles’ most iconic songs and was later inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

  • Singles Tequila Sunrise and Outlaw Man charted modestly, but the album’s narrative cohesion and Western imagery earned critical acclaim.

  • Certified 2× Platinum in the US, it’s often cited as a cornerstone of the country rock movement.

  • The outlaw theme was inspired by a book on Wild West gunfighters, drawing parallels between rock musicians and renegade cowboys.

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