Hotel California is the fifth studio album by the American rock band the Eagles, released on Asylum in late 1976. 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. [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. Julia Phillips proposed adapting the song into a film, but the members of the Eagles disliked the idea and it never came to fruition. It was 45-years-ago today (January 15th, 1977), that the Eagles' album Hotel California hit Number One. 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. Hotel California, an Album by Eagles. 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. 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 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. [59] Anderson himself indicated that his comments on the similarities between the songs were meant as a joke, and said: "It's not plagiarism. were used by an economist to refer to how the appeal of an attractive "Hotel California"-type host country to foreign investors may be countered by the cost of exit on leaving the country. "[19], Frey came up with a cinematic scenario of a person who, tired from driving a long distance in a desert, saw a place for a rest and pulled in for the night, but entered "a weird world peopled by freaky characters", and became "quickly spooked by the claustrophobic feeling of being caught in a disturbing web from which he may never escape. The Eagles - Hotel California - Live Acoustic Version 1994 Hell Freezes Over is the second live album by the Eagles, released in 1994. [34], 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". "[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. Commercially, "Hotel California" reached the number one position on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached the top ten of several international charts. Hotel California is the fifth studio album by American rock band the Eagles, and is one of the best-selling albums of all time. ", Yanis Varoufakis says Brexit is like Hotel California: 'You can check out any time you like but you can't really leave', Brexit, “no-deal” vicino. Sure! [31] Three months after its first release, the single was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), representing one million copies shipped. Writing credits for the song are shared by Don Felder, Don Henley and Glenn Frey. [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". In the 1980s the Rev. Setting out with photographer David Alexander, the designer shot a shortlist of three locations. We wanted to write a song just like it was a movie. [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. Hotel California has been certified 26× Platinum in the U.S., and has sold over 42 million copies worldwide.. [15] The demos he made were always instrumental, and on every album project he would submit 15 or 16 ideas. [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. [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. 7E-1084; Vinyl LP). 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. [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. [66] Alabama 3 covered the song for the album, La Peste (2000). [15][22] The band took a stand and refused the label's request to shorten the song. Frey and Henley were both interested in the tune after hearing the demo, and discussed the concept for the lyrics. Genres: Pop Rock, Country Rock, Soft Rock. [14], The metaphorical character of the story related in the lyrics has inspired a number of conjectural interpretations by listeners. The cover photo of The Eagles 1976 album “Hotel California” was taken by photographer David Alexander with art director Kosh. "Hotel California" is the title track from the Eagles' album of the same name and was released as a single in February 1977. [72] Don Henley threatened a lawsuit for copyright infringement. 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Origins: The Eagles 1976 album Hotel California has sold more than 16 million copies, spawned a best-record Grammy, and is regarded by numerous rock critics as one of the best albums ever. 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. … Tension between the two parties ended the pre-development deal for the film. Lyrics to "Hotel California" on Lyrics.com. Beverly Hills was still a mythical place to us. For the Eagles album of the same name, see, Crowe, Cameron. 1 … The album is the first to be released after the Eagles had reformed following a fourteen-year-long break up. [6] Writing credits for the song are shared by Don Felder (music), Don Henley, and Glenn Frey (lyrics). [23] The song was released as the second single from the album after "New Kid in Town". The song is initially in the key of B-minor. [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. [77][78] The lines "We are programmed to receive / You can check out any time you like / But you can never leave!" 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. Released 8 December 1976 on Asylum (catalog no. [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. [9] In the 2013 documentary History of the Eagles, Henley said that the song was about "a journey from innocence to experience... that's all..."[10]. The hotel opened in 1912 an has welcomed a list of celebrities to long to ever list here. Henley said that Phillips offered the band members cocaine and was "nonplussed" when they turned it down. Eagles guitarist Don Felder on the '70s rock-n-roll party scene, writing 'Hotel California' and working with Glenn Frey. Hotel California was arguably the band's best single album--it was certainly the Eagles' biggest original disc-- and it also underscored the band's need to make a big statement. This was because Henley feared that he would lack control over the project. 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. [11], A demo of the instrumental was developed by Don Felder[12][13] in a rented house on Malibu Beach. [55] One explanation of the progression is that it is a common flamenco chord progression called the "Spanish progression" (i–VII–VI–V in a phrygian context) that is interspersed with consecutive fifths. I guess you could say it's a song about loss of innocence."[14]. [49] "Colitas" means "little tails" in Spanish; in Mexican slang it refers to buds of the cannabis (marijuana) plant. [67] Nancy Sinatra recorded a cover version for her 2002 album California Girl, an album of songs about California. 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]. [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. The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1971 by Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Bernie Leadon, and Randy Meisner. 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]. 1 on that chart. Where is the hotel California? "[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 Eagles were one of the most popular musical acts of the 1970s, and they hit their peak with their landmark Hotel California album. [62] The Orb, under the name of Jam On The Mutha, produced a version that charted at No. [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. [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. 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. [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. All of us kind of drove into L.A. at night. It was really about the excesses of American culture and certain girls we knew. [85] The same analogy has been used by various commentators considering scenarios for Brexit, with the term "Hotel California Brexit". I first heard this selection of tracks on the 4th May 1977 at Bingley Hall Stafford during their Hotel California tour. [69] Vocal Sampling have performed an a cappella version, which is included in their 2008 album Akapelleando. It's just the same chord sequence. 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Patch On The Cover Of The Beatles Sgt. Paul McCartney's "O.P.D." Since its release, "Hotel California" has been covered by a number of artists and has become a part of international popular culture. 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. He recorded the basic tracks with a Rhythm Ace drum machine and added a 12 string guitar on a four-track recording deck in his spare bedroom, then mixed in a bassline, and gave Don Henley and Glenn Frey each a copy of the recording. According to the producer Bill Szymczyk, there were 33 edits on the two‑inch master. recorded his rendition for his album, Private Times...and the Whole 9! Rated #663 in the best albums of 1976. [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. Gets the Boot", "Experience the Music: One Hit Wonders and The Songs that Shaped Rock & Roll", "Flashback: All the Eagles Unite for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction", "The Top 30 12-String Guitar Songs of All Time", "Hotel California by the Eagles: What was it actually about? [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. [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". [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. Believe me, I've consumed enough alcoholic beverages in my time to know how they are made and what the proper nomenclature is. 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. The Eagles were one of the most popular musical acts of the 1970s, and they hit their peak with their landmark Hotel California album. 1. "[14] It has also been interpreted as an allegory about hedonism, self-destruction, and greed in the music industry of the late 1970s. "[54], Other interpretations of the song include heroin addiction and cannibalism. [55] The presence of E major gives a hint of B Dorian. [79] A term "The Hotel California Effect" was then used to refer to the negative effect of financial regulations on investment,[80] and the problems foreign investors faced when getting their money out of China. The eight-measure sequence is repeated in the intro, for each verse and in the outro, providing the harmonic framework for the entire extended dual guitar solo at the end of the song. 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. [14][19] According to Frey's liner notes for The Very Best Of, the use of the word "steely" in the lyric, "They stab it with their steely knives, but they just can't kill the beast," was a playful nod to the band Steely Dan, who had included the lyric "Turn up the Eagles, the neighbors are listening" in their song "Everything You Did". Pepper's Lonely Hearts Cl... Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 Meaning??? [61] Gipsy Kings recorded a flamenco version sung in Spanish. [18], Part of the lyrics, such as "Her mind is Tiffany-twisted, she got the Mercedes bends / She got a lot of pretty pretty boys she calls friends", are based on Henley's break-up with his girlfriend Loree Rodkin. [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". 1 on the Billboard 200 chart on Jan. 15, 1977. The album was recorded at the Criteria and Record Plant studios between March and October 1976, and then released on Asylum in December. 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"? 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. [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. The now-classic album reached No. [49] More recently it was used during the final scenes of the premiere episode of American Horror Story: Hotel in October 2015. The intro and verses' chord pattern counts eight measures, each one assigned to a single chord. 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. 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"[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. The hotel opened in 1912 an has welcomed a list of celebrities to long to ever list here. Five or six best ones were selected, and the best parts were then spliced together to create the released version. Nobody was from California, and if you drive into L.A. at night... you can just see this glow on the horizon of lights, and the images that start running through your head of Hollywood and all the dreams that you have, and so it was kind of about that... what we started writing the song about. 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. [55] With its descending ostinato pattern, it could be considered a fandango, a forerunner of the Baroque chaconne form. There were 3 singles released from the album, each reaching high in the Billboard Hot 100. Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull believed “Hotel California” sounded suspiciously like one of his songs. "Hotel California" is the title track from the Eagles' album of the same name and was released as a single in February 1977. [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. It is one of the best-known songs of the album-oriented rock era. [65] The Romanian band Vama Veche recorded its version with different lyrics entitled "Hotel Cişmigiu", sung in its native language. The first live recording of the song appeared on the Eagles' 1980 live album, and an acoustic version with an extended intro is a track in the 1994 Hell Freezes Over reunion concert CD and video release. Billboard album chart, suggesting the Eagles heard it on the album or when they toured together. 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 […] [2] In Miami, the band fine-tuned the instrumentation and the lyrics and recorded numerous takes. Eagles have performed "Hotel California" 1,038 times live, the third most out of all their songs, after "Desperado" and "Take it Easy". 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… [33], The Eagles won the 1977 Grammy Award for Record of the Year for "Hotel California" at the 20th Grammy Awards in 1978. This was due to the difficulty of getting a cherry picker over the palm trees on Sunset Blvd. 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. [71], Frank Ocean released a song that samples the entire instrumental track of "Hotel California" on his mixtape Nostalgia, Ultra (2011), entitled "American Wedding". 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. In that sense it became something of a symbol, and the 'Hotel' the locus of all that LA had come to mean for us. [8] It peaked at number 10 on the Easy Listening chart in April 1977. In a sentence, I'd sum it up as the end of the innocence, round one. [14] Walsh and Felder initially started improvising but Henley insisted that the recording should follow the music as first recorded in Felder's demo. Hotel California is the title song from the Eagles' album of the same name and was released as a single in early 1977. Frey continued: "We decided to create something strange, just to see if we could do it. Hotel California is the fifth studio album by American rock band the Eagles. It also featured one of the more mysterious lyrics of a popular song in the 1970s. 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But that line in the song has little or nothing to do with alcoholic beverages. [46][47] Other rumors suggested that the Hotel California was the Camarillo State Mental Hospital. [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. [48], The term "colitas" in the first stanza ("warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air") has been interpreted as a sexual slang or a reference to marijuana. [41], In his Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, Volume 1, Steve Sullivan theorizes that the "spirit" that the Hotel California hasn't had since 1969 refers to the spirit of social activism of the 1960s, and how disco and the related pop music of the mid-1970s had turned away from it. [50][51] According to Glenn Frey, the "warm smell" is "colitas... it means little tails, the very top of the plant. 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. [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. Take a look below for 22 more interesting and fascinating facts about the Eagles’ Hotel California album. It is the first Eagles album without founding member Bernie Leadon and the first album with Joe Walsh. For the cover of this album Don Henley wanted to convey: “Faded loss of innocence and decadence. [2] On the various interpretations, Henley said: "Some of the wilder interpretations of that song have been amazing. 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