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Last year, my parents went travelling in Arizona and gleefully sent me pictures every day of them sitting in deserts or standing by a statue of the Eagles<\/a> frontman Glenn Frey. I was\u2026 so happy for them.\u00a0<\/p>\n If you couldn\u2019t detect the subtle hint of sarcasm in that statement, it was more than a little depressing to receive this onslaught of sunny skies and majestic landscapes while I sat at home in the pouring Scottish rain, but nevertheless, the snap of Frey caught my attention despite my gritted teeth.\u00a0<\/p>\n Without disrespecting Arizona in any way, shape or form, it\u2019s not exactly the first place of inspiration you would think of for a band who were famously so Californian that it was almost painful<\/a>. However, as the band were just starting out, it happened that Jackson Browne was also in their orbit. He was just the tonic they needed.\u00a0<\/p>\n Browne and Frey were living in the same apartment building in California, but while the former was writing songs for his debut album, he became a little stuck on a song that would later become \u2018Take It Easy\u2019. He\u2019d already written a lyric of \u201cWell, I\u2019m a-standin\u2019 on a corner in Winslow, Arizona,\u201d based on the time his car broke down in that very same Navajo city. <\/p>\n Yet feeling pretty uninspired by the rest of the contents of the track, he passed it off to his musical acquaintance, Frey, to finish. In that sense, the rest was history, and the tune made the Eagles instantly iconic from their very beginning. But it still left the matter of Winslow itself, and the impact it had on that unsuspecting city.\u00a0<\/p>\n