It was a short call: "We're moving." Relaxing in their garden, she had noticed that the blanket she was lying on with the baby was next to a nest of rattlesnakes. He had been doing this at home in Los Angeles' Topanga Canyon, but while on tour he took a call from his wife Susan, who had recently given birth. The Eagles were not yet at the point of communicating via lawyers, but they were referring to one another by surname.Īnother Eagles guitarist, Don Felder, was tasked with recording instrumental snatches onto tape and submitting them to Frey and Henley in hope of their approval. “ 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 - and it made an enormous fortune rather than costing a small one.ĭon Henley had been playing with the phrase "Hotel California" for some time, but to become a song, it had to go through the regimented process the band had adopted by the mid-1970s. I often wonder what would happen if someone tried to make a music video about the song now – as Hotel California is so cinematic and begs for some classic scenes! I want to bring in an article from the BBC, where we get some more insight into a stunning track: The lyrics are so evocative and stunning. I have always wondered what the Eagles’ masterpiece is all about.
I know Hotel California took them in a slightly different direction the title track was certainly more ambitious than anything they had put out before.įrom Hotel Yorba to Hotel California, there have been songs written about different (somewhat unglamorous) locations. Opening an album with a song that is six-and-a-half-minutes might not seem like the best idea in order to keep people interested! I feel many would have considered the Eagles to be a very different band prior to 1976. There is so much to dissect and enjoy when it comes to Hotel California. 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”. The song was also included in the music video game Guitar Hero World Tour. The song's guitar solo was voted the best solo of all time by readers of Guitarist magazine in 1998, and was ranked 8th on Guitar Magazine's Top 100 Guitar Solos. 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". It was named one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. The song is rated highly in many rock music lists and polls Rolling Stone magazine ranked it number 49 on its list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". The Eagles won the 1977 Grammy Award for Record of the Year for "Hotel California" at the 20th Grammy Awards in 1978.
In the 2013 documentary History of the Eagles, Henley said that the song was about "a journey from innocence to experience. 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 was awarded the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1978. 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. 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. Writing credits for the song are shared by Don Felder (music), Don Henley, and Glenn Frey (lyrics). “ Hotel California" is the title track from the Eagles' album of the same name and was released as a single in February 1977. I will come to a couple of interesting articles soon but, first, some information from Wikipedia: I think its title track is one of the best songs ever.
Their fifth studio album, Hotel California, was released in 1976 – it celebrates its forty-fifth anniversary in December. Today, I am investigating the most-famous song by the Eagles. I am going to spotlight a song from a female band.
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