We take a deep dive into Hotel California to understand why its lyrics have fascinated listeners for nearly five decades.

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And that’s where I wrote Hotel California. “When I first joined the band,” he continued, "my high school band mate Bernie Leadon told me, ‘If you want to wrote songs with Don [Henley] and Glenn [Frey] ...

Eagles will release a deluxe edition of their classic Hotel California album to celebrate the record's 40th anniversary. Even though the hit album was released in December 1976, most of its impact ...

During a 2016 interview with Rolling Stone, Henley discussed his feelings on The Eagles’ Hotel California. “I think that we were at the height of our powers,” he said. “Every band has a peak, and that ...

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“I didn’t want to do just a remake of the same version of ‘Hotel California’; I thought that had been done twice. It had to be new and fresh,” Felder told us last month. “The choruses where the ...

The best classic rock songs often took inspiration from unexpected sources. For example, Eagles’ “Hotel California” was supposed to feel like a number of classic movies. The 1970s band Steely Dan also ...

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