{"id":551664,"date":"2026-03-29T03:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T03:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/551664\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T03:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T03:56:09","slug":"the-one-song-don-henley-and-glenn-frey-never-agreed-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/551664\/","title":{"rendered":"The one song Don Henley and Glenn Frey never agreed on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/The-singer-both-Don-Henley-and-Glenn-Frey-called-the-greatest-22I-always-loved-it22-Far-Out-Magazine.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-single-feature size-single-feature wp-post-image\" alt=\"The singer both Don Henley and Glenn Frey called the greatest- I always loved it\" layout=\"fill\"  style=\"object-position: 50% 20%\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Credits: Far Out \/ The Eagles \/ Don Henley)<\/p>\n<p> Sat 28 March 2026 22:45, UK <\/p>\n<p>The best pieces of\u00a0the<a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/tags\/eagles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> Eagles<\/a>\u2019 career always come back to the relationship between Don Henley and Glenn Frey.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They clicked instantly when they first became a songwriting team, and even if it took them a while to become one of the biggest bands in the world, there was no one else who could touch those soaring harmonies whenever they performed. But even if they had a lot of great musical willpower behind their biggest hits, it\u2019s not like they were seeing eye-to-eye on absolutely everything they touched.<\/p>\n<p>If anything, Henley was the perfectionist who was always concerned with everything sounding perfect. All good rock and roll needs to be imperfect to some degree, but when looking through a lot of those early records, the frontman did admit to cringing a little bit when looking at the songs that didn\u2019t stand the test of time. They were definitely wet behind the ears in many respects, and when looking at Desperado, the band seemed to want to grow up a little too quickly when looking at their track record.<\/p>\n<p>No one would have had the guts to make their second <a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/classic-western-clint-eastwood-called-overrated\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\u201cI never liked it\u201d: the classic western Clint Eastwood called overrated\">studio album a major Western opus<\/a> centred around musicians being looked at as outlaws, but it\u2019s not like Henley and Frey didn\u2019t have the tunes to back it up. The rest of the world didn\u2019t think so, but \u2018Tequila Sunrise\u2019 and the title track are still some of the greatest tunes in their catalogue, solely for the fact that they are nothing but pure beauty from back to front.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The rockers on the album may not have had the same punch that they should have, but that didn\u2019t mean that they couldn\u2019t kick out the jams when they wanted to. \u2018Already Gone\u2019 on the next record <a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/first-eagles-song-to-feature-don-felder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">introduced Don Felder to the lineup<\/a> in style, and when looking through the rest of the record, they were starting to nail the balance of intense songs and ballads whenever they sequenced their record. But when delving into their leftovers, \u2018James Dean\u2019 never seemed to have the same resonance with everyone. <\/p>\n<p>If you were to have asked Frey, the song seemed like the perfect inclusion to put on Desperado, <a href=\"http:\/\/glennfreyonline.com\/quotes\/songs.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">saying<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/the-investment-firm-that-brought-james-dean-back-from-dead-sell-stocks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"The South African investment firm that brought James Dean back from the dead to sell stocks\">James Dean was the first rock \u2018n\u2019 roll casualty<\/a>. He\u2019s the guy who trademarked blue jeans, white shirts, and a light spring jacket. Jimmy Dean, he\u2019s my first hero, that first angry young man, rebel without a cause.\u201d It definitely checks out as an Eagles tune, but Henley felt that the band didn\u2019t need to be celebrating the kind of guy who was the poster child for living fast and dying young.<\/p>\n<p>He wanted the chance to add some more depth to it, and he felt that \u2018James Dean\u2019 wasn\u2019t the kind of song he could relate to, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theuncool.com\/journalism\/the-very-best-of-the-eagles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">saying<\/a>, \u201cI sat there and listened to the guys talk about James Dean. They had evidently studied him and knew much more about him than I did. I had seen most of Dean\u2019s movies, but I somehow missed the whole icon thing. The mythology never quite reached my part of East Texas, but I pitched in and ended up with a writing credit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Which probably explains why Frey ended up being the one who ended up singing the thing. He was the student of Dean alongside his writing pals Jackson Browne and JD Souther, and when listening to his nasally cadence singing, he does a much better job of selling the picture of some adolescent punk that has stars in his eyes, <a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/other-car-crash-that-defined-rebel-without-a-cause\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"The other car crash that defined \u2018Rebel Without a Cause\u2019: \u201cNow do I get the part?\u201d\">watching Rebel Without a Cause<\/a> and thinking that he could make the same kind of moves that Dean could.<\/p>\n<p>But that kind of division was also what made Frey and Henley so special when they worked together. They were the odd couple of the group for a while, but no matter how high-strung they got trying to make every song perfect, there wasn\u2019t a single piece of their work where they weren\u2019t going to give 100%, even if it meant going along with a song that wasn\u2019t exactly to their taste.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>  <a class=\"fw\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" style=\"\"> ADD AS A PREFERRED SOURCE ON GOOGLE <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"28\" height=\"28\" src=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/themes\/far-out-magazine\/img\/google-discover.svg\" alt=\"\"\/> <\/a>   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credits: Far Out \/ The Eagles \/ Don Henley) Sat 28 March 2026 22:45, UK The best pieces&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[53387,6346,88,53388,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-551664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-don-henley","9":"tag-eagles","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-glenn-frey","12":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}