The soulful croon was Henley’s, the outlaw mythos (“ You’ve got your demons, you’ve got desires - I’ve got a few of my own”) his and Frey’s. He recalls: “I would hear these remarks like, ‘Well, you know, I don’t feel much like a desperado.’” The song’s haunting atmosphere was enhanced by the lush strings of the London Symphony Orchestra - Henley remembers “some older gentleman” bringing in chessboards to play between takes to relieve the boredom. Henley took the lead vocals on this campfire ballad while Frey supplied the poignant piano chords. It didn’t concern the cocktail of the same name - tequila plus orange juice with a dash of grenadine on top to approximate the dazzling hue of a sunrise - but was about someone guzzling tequila from night till morning, a portent, perhaps, of the hard partying to come for the stadium behemoths.Īnother Henley-Frey co-write designed as part of the parent album’s theme of rock star-as-outlaw.
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