![]() ![]() She immediately garnered attention from record executives - too much attention, actually - which led to tensions that brought about the band's breakup. ![]() She got her start in the band The Stone Poneys, who scored a big hit with the Michael Nesmith song "Different Drum" in 1967. Casey Kasem described her as "the queen of remakes" for her uncanny ability to transform long-forgotten oldies (or songs from relatively unknown artists) into modern pop hits. Linda Maria Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946) is an American pop singer from Tucson, Arizona, who started her career in the 1960s and has gone on to sell over 60 million albums worldwide. ![]() Souther, and covers of Randy Newman and Neil Young tunes among its many high points, the standouts were stunning versions of “Love Has No Pride” and “Desperado.” In the above clip from onstage at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, New Jersey, in December 1975, Ronstadt follows the familiar piano intro with a plaintive and mesmerizing performance of the song, still a staple of the Eagles’ live show.Collaborators: the Eagles, Warren Zevon, Jackson Browne, Dolly Parton, Randy Newman Her first for Asylum Records after a long stint with Capitol, Don’t Cry Now was her highest charting album to date, although it wasn’t the major breakthrough Ronstadt’s next LP Heart Like a Wheel -her last for Capitol - would be. The drunker everybody was the nicer it sounded. We’d do a lot of bluegrass songs and toward the end of the evening we’d sing a lot of white spirituals. Douglas Dillard would be there, and Rodney Dillard. “We used to sing in the corner of the bar a lot. and I met them all at the Troubadour bar,” Ronstadt told legendary British broadcaster and Old Grey Whistle Test host Whispering Bob Harris in a televised interview from the early Seventies. “There were a lot of guitar players around L.A. Sometime in the late Sixties, Henley had devised a chord progression and melody that would form the basis of “Desperado.” Influenced by the style of 19th century American songwriter Stephen Foster, whose songs, such as “My Old Kentucky Home” and “Oh! Susanna,” Henley learned as a young boy from his grandmother, “Desperado” served as the title track of an album that yielded no hit singles, while its predecessor had produced three, including “Take It Easy” and “Witchy Woman.” What the album did accomplish, however, was to cement the presence of songwriters Henley and Frey within the group, and “Desperado,” while not a hit, or even issued as a single for them, is one of the pair’s most enduring tunes. In 1973, Henley was living in a little house at the top of Laurel Canyon in the Hollywood Hills, furnished with little more than an upright piano and a bed. But I think the overriding premise was that fame - or notoriety - is a fleeting thing.” Like the outlaws of old, we fought with one another, and occasionally with the law. “We all went from town to town, collecting money and women, the critical difference being that we didn’t rob or kill anybody for what we got we worked for it. “The basic premise was that, like the outlaws, rock & roll bands lived outside the ‘laws of normality,’ we were not part of ‘conventional society,’” Henley told Rolling Stone in 2016. The title cut would mark the first-ever co-write for the group’s Don Henley and Glenn Frey. While not a concept album per se, the initial idea for the record was for the group to write about anti-heroes, drawing parallels between the Old West outlaw and the rock & roll lifestyle. Forty-six years ago this week, the Eagles released their sophomore LP Desperado.
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