Desperado (Eagles album)

Desperado
Studio album by the Eagles
Released	April 17, 1973 (1973-04-17)[1]
Recorded	1973
Studio	Island Studios (London, England)[2]
Genre	Country rock folk rock
Length	35:40[1]
Label	Asylum
Producer	Glyn Johns[2]
The Eagles chronology
Eagles (1972) Desperado (1973) On the Border (1974)
Singles from Desperado
"Tequila Sunrise" Released: April 17, 1973 "Outlaw Man" Released: August 6, 1973

Desperado is the second studio album by the American rock band the Eagles, released on April 17, 1973, by Asylum Records. The album was produced by Glyn Johns and was recorded at Island Studios in London, England. The songs on Desperado are based on the themes of the Old West. The band members are featured on the album's cover dressed like an outlaw gang; Desperado remains the only Eagles album where the band members appear on the front cover.

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. The album reached number 41 on the Billboard album chart and was certified gold by the RIAA on September 23, 1974, and double platinum on March 20, 2001.^[3] In 2000, Desperado was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.^[4]

Desperado was the last Asylum Records album to be distributed in North America by Atlantic Records (catalog no. SD 5068), prior to Asylum's mid-1973 merger with Elektra Records by Asylum's, Elektra's and Atlantic's parent company, Warner Communications.