“Desperado” is one of the first songs that Glenn Frey and Don Henley wrote together. It is also one of The Eagles’ most popular songs. Never released as a single, it nevertheless banked No. 494 on Rolling Stone‘s 2004 list of “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time“. But it didn’t become that popular at first, until Linda Ronstadt recorded it in 1973. Her’s was the version that I first heard.