{"id":230382,"date":"2025-10-28T16:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/230382\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T16:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:14:12","slug":"glenn-frey-considered-one-eagles-song-to-be-absolutely-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/230382\/","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Frey considered one Eagles song to be absolutely perfect"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Glenn<\/p>\n

(Credits: Far Out \/ Greenwich Entertainment)<\/p>\n

Tue 28 October 2025 13:15, UK <\/p>\n

No song can claim to be perfect from back to front. Even if every instrument is played to the best of the artist\u2019s ability, there will always be those subtle imperfections that muddy up the mix, bringing an added sense of character that no one else can replicate. While the Eagles still had to work out the bugs of their sound throughout their career, Glenn Frey<\/a> felt that one track represented one of the first peaks of their songwriting.<\/p>\n

When the band first got together, though, much of their debut album was assembled piecemeal from different artists. After Frey started the group with Don Henley on the back of Linda Ronstadt\u2019s outfit, much of their debut included a laundry list of songs they worked on in initial jam sessions, like the hard-rocking \u2018Witchy Woman\u2019.<\/p>\n

By the time the band needed their first hits, they made the most out of their friends\u2019 material. Recording old favourites like their cover of the song \u2018Nightingale\u2019, one of their more recognisable hits from their early years, came courtesy of Jack Tempchin, who brought in the mellow groove of \u2018Peaceful Easy Feeling\u2019.<\/p>\n

When the band started to work on a song with Jackson Browne entitled \u2018Take It Easy\u2019<\/a>, Frey\u2019s magic appeared for the first time. Stuck in the second verse, Browne eventually handed the track over to the rest of the group when Frey filled in the blanks, singing about a beautiful woman slowing down to take a look at him from the back of her flatbed Ford.<\/p>\n

Even though the album performed decently on the charts, the band were just as nervous about what becoming stars entailed. After wondering whether they could write anything worthwhile, Frey presented Henley with an idea that he had been working on based on Roy Orbison\u2019s music.<\/p>\n

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Featuring a Spanish-flavoured rhythm guitar part, \u2018Tequila Sunrise\u2019 would mark the first time that Frey and Henley collaborated on a tune, creating the musical embodiment of the sun rising after a night of heavy drinking. Even though Frey and Henley would write many other classics since their first collaboration, Frey insisted that \u2018Tequila Sunrise\u2019 still holds a special place in his heart.<\/p>\n

In the liner notes of The Very Best of the Eagles<\/a>, Frey thought that the piece was as perfect as they could have written at the time, saying, \u201cI love the song. I think the goal of any songwriter is to make a song appear seamless, to never show the struggle. Nothing should sound forced. \u2018Tequila Sunrise\u2019 was written fairly quickly, and I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a single chord out of place.\u201d<\/p>\n

The track was, by and large, an effort straight form the mind of Glenn Frey. \u201cI didn\u2019t even know what a flatbed Ford was,\u201d Jackson Browne told\u00a0Rolling Stone when referring to his lyrics. \u201cYou need a guy like Glenn, who\u2019s a \u2018girl-Ford-Lord\u2019 guy. Also he put himself into the song: The girl \u2018slowing down to take a look at me\u2019 \u2013 that\u2019s pure Glenn Frey.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy to see what Frey is discussing to make it seamless. For all of the woodshedding that goes into writing a melody as bulletproof as this, their delivery makes the whole song sound like they were just in the right place at the right time when the engineer decided to push the record button on the console. <\/p>\n

Even though the accompanying Desperado album didn\u2019t have the same massive response Frey and Henley had thought, it didn\u2019t seem to matter. The songwriting duo behind the Eagles had congealed, and it was time for them to start soundtracking the California dream.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Don Henley thinks he understood exactly why the song was so popular: \u201cThe song\u2019s primary appeal, I think, is that it evokes a sense of motion, both musically and lyrically. The romance of the open road. The lure of adventure and possibility \u2013 Route 66, the Blue Ridge Parkway, Pacific Coast Highway. Great American writers from Thomas Wolfe to Jack Kerouac to Wallace Stegner have addressed this theme of the restlessness of the American spirit, of our need to keep moving, especially from east to west, in search of freedom, identity, fortune and this elusive thing we call \u2018home.’\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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