In a sentence, I'd sum it up as the end of the innocence, round one." įrey 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." In an interview with Cameron Crowe, Frey said that he and Henley wanted the song "to open like an episode of the Twilight Zone", and added: "We take this guy and make him like a character in The Magus, where every time he walks through a door there's a new version of reality. In that sense it became something of a symbol, and the 'Hotel' the locus of all that LA had come to mean for us. Beverly Hills was still a mythical place to us.
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Henley said of their personal and professional experience in LA: "We were getting an extensive education, in life, in love, in business. 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. 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 .
Nobody was from California, and if you drive into L.A. In 2008, Felder described the writing of the lyrics:ĭon Henley and Glenn wrote most of the words. įrey and Henley were both interested in the tune after hearing the demo, and discussed the concept for the lyrics. 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", which gave the song its first working title, "Mexican Reggae". The demos he made were always instrumental, and on every album project he would submit 15 or 16 ideas. 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. 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. ĭon Henley wrote the lyrics to "Hotel California" with Frey.Ī demo of the instrumental was developed by Don Felder in a rented house on Malibu Beach. The Eagles have performed "Hotel California" 1,038 times live, the third most out of all their songs, after " Desperado" and " Take it Easy". Commercially, "Hotel California" reached the number one position on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached the top ten of several international charts. Julia Phillips proposed adapting the song into a film, but the members of the Eagles disliked the idea and it never came to fruition. Since its release, "Hotel California" has been covered by many artists. 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 interpretated 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 best known 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 electric guitar solo performed by both Walsh and Felder, in which they both take turns of playing lead before harmonising and playing the aforementioned arpeggio towards the fade out at the end.
Joe Walsh came up with the dual-guitar descending arpeggio part that ends the song: he did not, however, get writing credits. 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.
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