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- The real-life inspiration for ‘Hotel California’ came from the Eagles’ own experiences with fame and the music industry’s darker side. It represents their encounters with the high life and its embedded decadence, as seen through their rise to stardom in the 1970s.
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Aug 22, 2018 · The senior Eagles, Glenn Frey and Don Henley, quietly tolerated Walsh's destruction but when it was their turn to write about what life on the road meant to them, the result was much less literal...
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Eagles released Hotel California on December 8, 1976, two weeks after the Sex Pistols Anarchy In The UK. On the surface, you couldnt get two records more diametrically opposed or could you? At the time, punk seemed designed to blow the likes of Eagles and their mellow country-rock vibes clean out the water. But closer inspection of their fifth stu...
You want punk? These five middle-class kids from the Midwest (Don Henley) came not to pursue the west coast myth but to bury it. It might have been the epitome of carefree freeway rock, but Hotel California was a dark affair, and certainly melancholy for a mega-seller (to date, the album has sold 32 million copies and counting). If Rumours detailed...
I had rented a house on the beach in Malibu that summer and we were writing songs for what was going to become the Hotel California album,\" guitarist and songwriter Don Felder told Guitarist Magazine of the song's creation. \"Wed just come off One Of These Nights, which was a very successful record for us, but we were under the gun to come up with...
Hotel California was to mainstream US radio what Bohemian Rhapsody was to the UK variety the ostensibly overlong number that broke the mould and forced programmers to indulge the artists creative whims despite the restrictive (three-minute) format. Oh, and the guitar solos not bad. Often voted the best guitar solo of all time duking it out with S...
Wed talked about the fact that nobody from the band was from California,\" says Felder. \"Wed all driven into California at night and, on the horizon, you could see the lights of Los Angeles from about 100 miles away as youre approaching for the first time. And you have all these images that are in your mind: palm trees and movie stars and success ...
\"So we finally invited them over and put up the two-track with all the mixes and I think the last song on the thing, at the time, was Hotel California. Henley turned around and said, Thats our first single. And I went, God, I think thats wrong: thats the wrong format for radio its six minutes long, you cant dance to it and it stops in the middle....
\"Ive never been proven so wonderfully wrong [laughs]. There were times when we disagreed about decisions and stuff but, you know, he was right [about that].\"
Some suggest 'Hotel California' paints a picture of a mental instituion, while others think it chronicles an experience in an actual hotel full of strange guests. The Eagles, however, have declared the song is really a commentary on American self-indulgence and the band's introduction to "the high life".
Aug 20, 2023 · As the Eagles’ best selling single, ‘Hotel California’ encapsulates the sound of California rock in the 1970s and the decadence of an era in American music. The story behind its creation involving dueling egos and creative tensions proves that even rock legends have to collaborate to make magic.
Sep 6, 2022 · There was never any physical Hotel California, as Living a Lot says, but Henley did take inspiration from the Beverly Hills Hotel where the band had stayed for a while. That hotel became the figurative center of the web of Los Angeles and the Eagle's Californian experience.
Aug 22, 2018 · The senior Eagles, Glenn Frey and Don Henley, quietly tolerated Walsh's destruction but when it was their turn to write about what life on the road meant to them, the result was much less literal...
Dec 8, 2016 · Hotel California drew heroic sales figures and critical plaudits in equal measure, and affirmed the band’s shift from laid-back country-tinged pop act to major players in the rock & roll fast...
