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"Tequila Sunrise" is a song from 1973, written by Don Henley and Glenn Frey, and recorded by the Eagles. It was the first single from the band's second album, Desperado. [2] It peaked at number 64 on the Billboard Hot 100. A cover version was recorded by country music singer Alan Jackson on the 1993 tribute album Common Thread: The Songs of the ...
Although the title track is one of the Eagles' signature songs, it was never released as a single. The song "Desperado" was ranked number 494 on Rolling Stone 's 2004 list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". The album did yield two singles, "Tequila Sunrise" and "Outlaw Man", which reached number 64 and number 59 respectively.
All of the singles except "Tequila Sunrise" had charted in the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, and five had reached the top ten. "One of These Nights" and "Best of My Love" had both topped the chart. Irving Azoff, the manager of the Eagles, said: "We decided it was time to put out the first greatest-hits because we had enough hits."
The tequila sunrise is a cocktail made of tequila, orange juice, and grenadine syrup. The drink is served unmixed in a tall glass. The drink is served unmixed in a tall glass. The modern drink originates from Sausalito, California , in the early 1970s after an earlier iteration created in the 1930s in Phoenix, Arizona .
The Eagles are an American rock band. Since their debut in 1972, they have released 7 studio albums, 3 live albums, 11 compilation albums, 4 video albums and 30 singles. Of those singles, five topped the Billboard Hot 100. The Eagles have a total of 18 Top 40 hits on the pop charts, as well as several hits on the adult contemporary chart.
[5] In 1972, after they had recorded their debut studio album, Eagles, in London, Glenn Frey and Henley decided that they should write songs together, and within a day or two after returning from London they wrote "Desperado". [5] They also wrote "Tequila Sunrise" in the first week of their collaboration. [6]
Glenn Lewis Frey (/ f r aɪ /; November 6, 1948 – January 18, 2016) was an American musician.He was a founding member of the rock band Eagles.Frey was the co-lead singer and frontman for Eagles, roles he came to share with fellow member Don Henley, with whom he wrote most of Eagles' material.
Selected Works: 1972–1999 is a compilation box set by the Eagles, released in 2000.The box set consists of four CDs featuring their greatest hits, album tracks, previously unreleased live performances recorded on 29–31 December 1999 in Las Vegas and Los Angeles and a 44-page booklet.