Statue in Winslow, Arizona, honours Eagles’ Glenn Frey

WINSLOW, Arizona — A life-size bronze tribute statue to the late singer-songwriter Glenn Frey of the Eagles has been installed in the Standing on the Corner park in Winslow, Arizona.

It joins the statue that many think looks like Jackson Browne that has stood in the city’s downtown area since the late 1990s.

Browne and Frey co-wrote the Eagles’ song Take it Easy in 1972 that included the lyric “standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona.”

Last weekend’s installation ceremony kicked off Winslow’s annual Standing on the Corner music festival. Local broadcaster Mark Devine said in a statement that after Frey died in January at age 67, “we thought a statue would be a great way to pay tribute to his everlasting impact on Arizona’s history.”

The statue depicts a longhaired, mustachioed Frey — the way he looked in the early 1970s.

The other statue that resembles Browne is of a man with boots, jeans and a guitar. In front of it is a Route 66 shield painted on the road and behind him is a mural with a woman looking in his direction — a reference to the lines in the song: “Well, I’m standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, such a fine sight to see. It’s a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed Ford slowin’ down to take a look at me.”

The origins of the song date back to the early 1970s when Frey was living below Browne in a $60a-month Los Angeles apartment.

Frey said in a 2003 interview that Browne came up with the Winslow line after getting stranded there once but was stumped on how to finish the verse. Frey suggested the flatbed Ford line, and it clicked.