[62] The Orb, under the name of Jam On The Mutha, produced a version that charted at No. "[18] Frey described the song in an interview with NBC's Bob Costas as a cinematic montage "just one shot to the next ... a picture of a guy on the highway, a picture of the hotel, the guy walks in, the door opens, strange people." This album is the Eagles at their best. The Eagles' original recording of the song features Henley singing the lead vocals and concludes with an extended section of electric guitar interplay between Felder and Joe Walsh. [14], The metaphorical character of the story related in the lyrics has inspired a number of conjectural interpretations by listeners. 1 on that chart. Frey continued: "We decided to create something strange, just to see if we could do it. Billboard album chart, suggesting the Eagles heard it on the album or when they toured together. ", "500 Greatest Songs of All Time: The Eagles, 'Hotel California, Minister Links Rock, Sympathy for the Devil, "In the song "Hotel California," what does "colitas" mean? It is also the last album featuring original bass player and singer Randy Meisner. [66] Alabama 3 covered the song for the album, La Peste (2000). In 2009, the song was further certified Platinum (Digital Sales Award) by the RIAA for sales of one million digital downloads,[32] and has since sold over 3 million downloads. In that sense it became something of a symbol, and the 'Hotel' the locus of all that LA had come to mean for us. [85] The same analogy has been used by various commentators considering scenarios for Brexit, with the term "Hotel California Brexit". [2][7] The song was awarded the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1978. My only regret would be having to explain it in detail to you, which would defeat the purpose of using literary devices in songwriting and lower the discussion to some silly and irrelevant argument about chemical processes. After taking photos of several different hotels the photo chosen by the band was of iconic The Beverly Hills Hotel, which is located on Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills, California. The Eagles were one of the most popular musical acts of the 1970s, and they hit their peak with their landmark Hotel California album. [68] The Cat Empire recorded a version sung in French entitled "L'hotel de Californie" for Triple J's Like a Version segment, and is included in its 2005 compilation album as well as the band's 2003 live album On the Attack. [3] The final section features a guitar battle between Joe Walsh (who had replaced Bernie Leadon after Leadon's departure from the band in 1975) and Felder, which took the two of them sitting together working for around three days to achieve the necessary precision. Paul Risley of Cornerstone Church in Burlington, Wisconsin alleged that "Hotel California" referred to a San Francisco hotel that was purchased by Anton LaVey and converted into his Church of Satan. In a sentence, I'd sum it up as the end of the innocence, round one. The album is the first to be released after the Eagles had reformed following a fourteen-year-long break up. "[20], The Eagles recorded the track with Don Henley on lead vocal three different times, twice at the Record Plant in Los Angeles and finally at the Criteria Studios in Miami. 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The Eagles were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998, and all seven former and present members of the group performed "Hotel California… In her memoir You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again, Phillips wrote that the band members were difficult to deal with and arrogant. Eagles guitarist Don Felder on the '70s rock-n-roll party scene, writing 'Hotel California' and working with Glenn Frey. "Hotel California" is the title track from the Eagles' album of the same name and was released as a single in February 1977. The Eagles were one of the most popular musical acts of the 1970s, and they hit their peak with their landmark Hotel California album. It was 45-years-ago today (January 15th, 1977), that the Eagles' album Hotel California hit Number One. The front cover art for some overseas editions of the 45rpm single released was a reworked version of the Hotel California LP cover art, which used a photograph of the Beverly Hills Hotel by David Alexander, with design and art direction by Kosh. [86][87][88], A book titled Operation Hotel California: The Clandestine War Inside Iraq was written about the clandestine operation named after the song title by CIA–US Special Forces teams in Iraqi Kurdistan in the lead-up to the Iraq War. The album, which was released on December 8th, 1976, was the group's third chart-topper in a row, following 1975's One Of These Nights and 1976's compilation Eagles/Their Greatest Hits […] Released 8 December 1976 on Asylum (catalog no. Every Song On The Eagles’ Hotel California Ranked From Worst To Best. "[54], Other interpretations of the song include heroin addiction and cannibalism. Commercially, "Hotel California" reached the number one position on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached the top ten of several international charts. [6] Writing credits for the song are shared by Don Felder (music), Don Henley, and Glenn Frey (lyrics). It was ranked the number 1 in the list of the best 12-string guitar songs of all times by Guitar World magazine in 2015. Patch On The Cover Of The Beatles Sgt. Henley responded: Thanks for the tutorial and, no, you're not the first to bring this to my attention — and you're not the first to completely misinterpret the lyric and miss the metaphor. Ue come l’Hotel California, "Operation Hotel California: The Clandestine War Inside Iraq", "David Letterman punks The Eagles over licensing their music – watch", "The Definitive Guide To The Music of The Big Lebowski", "Is 'AHS: Hotel' Based On "Hotel California"? The cover photo of The Eagles 1976 album “Hotel California” was taken by photographer David Alexander with art director Kosh. [55] The presence of E major gives a hint of B Dorian. Setting out with photographer David Alexander, the designer shot a shortlist of three locations. Other articles where Hotel California is discussed: Asylum Records and the Sound of Southern California: …easy” but occasionally dug deeper—Hotel California (1976) was an unexpectedly sardonic take on the hedonistic lifestyle of Los Angeles in the 1970s. Believe me, I've consumed enough alcoholic beverages in my time to know how they are made and what the proper nomenclature is. The now-classic album reached No. [36] At the induction of the Eagles into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998, all seven former and present members of the band reunited to perform "Hotel California". Every band has a magic album, Wishbone Ash had Argus, Beatles Sergeant Pepper Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon. Frey and Henley were both interested in the tune after hearing the demo, and discussed the concept for the lyrics. [71], Frank Ocean released a song that samples the entire instrumental track of "Hotel California" on his mixtape Nostalgia, Ultra (2011), entitled "American Wedding". [15] The demos he made were always instrumental, and on every album project he would submit 15 or 16 ideas. "[44] In the 2013 documentary, History of the Eagles, Henley reiterated: On just about every album we made, there was some kind of commentary on the music business, and on American culture in general. [2] In Miami, the band fine-tuned the instrumentation and the lyrics and recorded numerous takes. [37], The song's guitar solo was voted the best solo of all time by readers of Guitarist magazine in 1998,[7] and was ranked 8th on Guitar Magazine's Top 100 Guitar Solos. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart on Jan. 15, 1977. [69] Vocal Sampling have performed an a cappella version, which is included in their 2008 album Akapelleando. [39], Glenn Frey said that originally "We decided to create something strange, just to see if we could do it," and that the song was meant to mimic the imagery of the 1965 novel The Magus by John Fowles, about a man in an unfamiliar rural setting who is unsure about what he is experiencing. While the lyrical content of the album is up for debate, the true beauty of Hotel California is the sound, much of which was unlike anything the Eagles had done before. [21] Frey had also said that the writing of the song was inspired by the boldness of Steely Dan's lyrics and its willingness to go "out there",[18] and thought that the song they wrote had "achieved perfect ambiguity. The Hotel on the cover of the Eagles album is the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. Rolling Stone reported that the band was not upset at this development, as they were not particularly enamored with the idea of "Hotel California" being adapted into a film. "[60], The chorus, or refrain, uses five of the song's seven chords, structured with the melody in a way that shifts the key from B-minor to its relative major of D:[55], Al B. The hotel opened in 1912 an has welcomed a list of celebrities to long to ever list here. The now-classic album reached No. "[2][20] Henley then wrote most of the lyrics based on Frey's idea, and sought inspiration for the writing by driving out into the desert as well as from films and theater. [15][22] The band took a stand and refused the label's request to shorten the song. In a 2009 interview, The Plain Dealer music critic John Soeder asked Henley if he regretted writing the lines "So I called up the captain / 'Please bring me my wine' / He said, 'We haven't had that spirit here since 1969'" because wines are fermented while spirits are distilled. [61] Gipsy Kings recorded a flamenco version sung in Spanish. After taking photos of several different hotels the photo chosen by the band was of iconic The Beverly Hills Hotel, which is located on Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills, California. Genres: Pop Rock, Country Rock, Soft Rock. [67] Nancy Sinatra recorded a cover version for her 2002 album California Girl, an album of songs about California. Five or six best ones were selected, and the best parts were then spliced together to create the released version. That’s because a Mexican company called Hotel California Baja LLC on Wednesday settled a legal dispute with The Eagles, withdrawing an application for a … [38] The song was also included in the music video game Guitar Hero World Tour. Eagles. [33], The Eagles won the 1977 Grammy Award for Record of the Year for "Hotel California" at the 20th Grammy Awards in 1978. I guess you could say it's a song about loss of innocence."[14]. [57] While the Eagles did open for Jethro Tull in June 1972, Don Felder, who wrote the music, did not join the band until 1974 and would not have been backstage at their concerts. 1", Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, https://ultimateclassicrock.com/timothy-b-schmit-cross-that-line/, "The Eagles' 'Hotel California': 10 Things You Didn't Know", "Eagles' Hotel California: the real story", "Interview: Don Felder on The Eagles' classic song, Hotel California", "Conversations With Don Henley and Glenn Frey", "The Eagles: "It's A Record About The Dark Underbelly Of America, "1992 Glenn Frey Interview with Bob Costas", Liner Notes – The Very Best of the Eagles, "20 things to know about Hotel California", "20 Years Ago: The Eagles Release 'Hell Freezes Over, "Adult Contemporary Tracks: April 16, 1977", "Gold & Platinum – Diamond Certifications", "Revisionist History, Holiday Edition: Mariah Gets a 'Christmas' Gift, Wham! Guess what’s right across the street from The Beverly Hills Hotel??? [14] Felder, who met the Eagles through his high school bandmate Bernie Leadon, said that Leadon advised him to make tapes of songs he wrote for the band so that other band members like Henley, whose forte is in writing lyrics, might work with him on finishing the songs they liked. Listen free to Eagles – Hotel California (Hotel California, New Kid in Town and more). [58] Felder has said that he had never heard "We Used to Know", and that he was unfamiliar with Jethro Tull apart from the fact the frontman plays a flute. The demo he made for "Hotel California" showed influences from Latin and reggae music, and it grabbed the attention of Henley who said he liked the song that "sounds like a Mexican reggae or Bolero",[15] which gave the song its first working title, "Mexican Reggae".[16]. [73], "Hotel California" and its lyrics have become absorbed into the wider culture around the world, and have been used by various writers and commentators to reflect on issues ranging from politics to social media and welfare,[74][75][76] or as an observation on a particular situation. Take a look below for 22 more interesting and fascinating facts about the Eagles’ Hotel California album. [17], Henley decided on the theme of "Hotel California", noting how The Beverly Hills Hotel had become a literal and symbolic focal point of their lives at that time. The hotel itself could be taken as a metaphor not only for the myth-making of Southern California, but for the myth-making that is the American Dream, because it is a fine line between the American Dream, and the American nightmare.[45]. This was due to the difficulty of getting a cherry picker over the palm trees on Sunset Blvd. The hotel opened in 1912 an has welcomed a list of celebrities to long to ever list here. [81][82] It has also applied to other ideas such as problem when leaving a service provider or social media network,[83][84] or when exiting cloud computing. Beverly Hills was still a mythical place to us. The song is initially in the key of B-minor. [27], "Hotel California" first entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart dated February 26, 1977,[28] and topped the Hot 100 singles chart for one week in May 1977,[29] the band's fourth song to reach No. In 2008, Felder described the writing of the lyrics: Don Henley and Glenn wrote most of the words. The Eagles' original recording of the song features Henley singing the lead vocals and concludes with an extended section of electric guitar interplay between Felder and Joe Walsh. [8] The lyrics of the song have been given various interpretations by fans and critics alike, the Eagles themselves describing the song as their "interpretation of the high life in Los Angeles". The song has been described as being "all about American decadence and burnout, too much money, corruption, drugs and arrogance; too little humility and heart. The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1971 by Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Bernie Leadon, and Randy Meisner. [70] The Killers and Rhythms del Mundo collaborated their version with Afro-Cuban music for the 2009 Artists' Project Earth charity, and it appeared on the album Rhythms del Mundo Classics. [65] The Romanian band Vama Veche recorded its version with different lyrics entitled "Hotel Cişmigiu", sung in its native language. The song is considered the most famous recording by the band, and in 1998 its long guitar coda was voted the best guitar solo of all time by readers of Guitarist. [14] Walsh and Felder initially started improvising but Henley insisted that the recording should follow the music as first recorded in Felder's demo. This was the Eagles’ first album with Joe Walsh, who had replaced founding member Bernie Leadon, and is the last album to feature bassist … I was trying to use California as the microcosm for the rest of the nation.”. [8] It peaked at number 10 on the Easy Listening chart in April 1977. [93], According to Rolling Stone, Julia Phillips, the producer of films like Taxi Driver and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, was interested in shooting a movie based on the song's story. It also featured one of the more mysterious lyrics of a popular song in the 1970s. [55] With its descending ostinato pattern, it could be considered a fandango, a forerunner of the Baroque chaconne form. For the Eagles album of the same name, see, Crowe, Cameron. The intro and verses' chord pattern counts eight measures, each one assigned to a single chord. [50][51] According to Glenn Frey, the "warm smell" is "colitas... it means little tails, the very top of the plant. [63][64] Mike Piranha recorded "Hotel Honolulu" in 1998, satirizing overdevelopment, crime, and other issues on Oahu; the song became a local hit in Hawaii. [24], As "Hotel California" became one of the group's most popular songs and a concert staple for the band,[25] live recordings of the song have therefore also been released. [15], Henley decided that the song should be a single, although Felder had doubts and the record company was reluctant to release it because, at over six minutes, its duration far exceeded that of the songs generally played by radio stations. "[14] It has also been interpreted as an allegory about hedonism, self-destruction, and greed in the music industry of the late 1970s. 7E-1084; Vinyl LP). [40], Don Henley has given a number of explanations about the song, ranging from "a journey from innocence to experience"[10] to "a sociopolitical statement". Julia Phillips proposed adapting the song into a film, but the members of the Eagles disliked the idea and it never came to fruition. [42] Henley called it "our interpretation of the high life in Los Angeles",[43] and later said: "It's basically a song about the dark underbelly of the American dream and about excess in America, which is something we knew a lot about. It is one of the best-known songs of the album-oriented rock era. The album is one of the best selling albums of all time. Seven different chords are used in the eight measures. In the 1980s the Rev. 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[59] Anderson himself indicated that his comments on the similarities between the songs were meant as a joke, and said: "It's not plagiarism. "Conversations with Don Henley and Glenn Frey" (, Recording Industry Association of America, You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again, "Glenn Frey: How Hotel California destroyed The Eagles", "The Eagles 'Hotel California' Classic Tracks", "Why Hotel California marked a watershed for rock", "Rewinding The Charts: Eagles' 'Hotel California' Checks In At No. [35] It was named one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. ", "Locked into the Hotel California: Or, expanding the Spanish progression", "The Harvard Dictionary of Music — Don Michael Randel | Harvard University Press", "Did Jethro Tull Inspire the Eagles' "Hotel California"? [89][90], Although the Eagles were noted for their reluctance to license their songs for use in shows,[91] the song has been used in a number of films and television shows, such as The Big Lebowski (performed by the Gipsy Kings),[92] Absolutely Fabulous, and The Sopranos. [2][3] They first recorded a riff, but when it came to recording the vocal, it was found to be in too high a key for Henley's voice, so Felder progressively lowered the key from E minor, eventually settling on B minor. I first heard this selection of tracks on the 4th May 1977 at Bingley Hall Stafford during their Hotel California tour. "Hotel California" was the title track of the Eagles' most successful regular album (though second overall to the astronomical sales of Eagles/Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975) and a chart-topping hit in its own right. ... Harmonic progression—it's almost a mathematical certainty that you're gonna crop up with the same thing sooner or later if you're strumming a few chords on a guitar. 1 … Michael Jackson's Thriller has been overtaken as the all-time best-selling album in the US by the Eagles' greatest hits, and that band's album Hotel California is at number three. This was because Henley feared that he would lack control over the project. Its title track, the haunting Hotel California continues to entrance listeners even though during its heyday the song was on the charts for only nineteen weeks and in the number one spot for only one. Writing credits for the song are shared by Don Felder, Don Henley and Glenn Frey. The album was recorded at the Criteria and Record Plant studios between March and October 1976, and then released on Asylum in December. 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