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As "Hotel California" became one of the group's most popular songs and a concert staple for the band, [27] live recordings of the song have therefore also been released. 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 on the 1994 Hell Freezes Over reunion ...
The first song written for the album was "Hotel California", which became the theme for the album. [4]Don Henley said of the themes of the songs in the album: . They're the same themes that run through all of our work: loss of innocence, the cost of naiveté, the perils of fame, of excess; exploration of the dark underbelly of the American dream, idealism realized and idealism thwarted ...
[1] Author James Perone says that it ties "all the previous songs [from Hotel California] together in this final reflection of the dark side of California Life." [ 6 ] He notes, for example, how the song lyrics contrast the beauty of the California desert with ugly suburban houses and ultimately progresses to criticize the concept of manifest ...
Sotheby's listed the “Hotel California” song lyrics in a 2016 auction but withdrew them after learning the ownership was in question. Sotheby's isn't charged in the case and declined to comment.
A rare-books dealer who was cleared of wrongdoing over an alleged plot to sell the handwritten lyrics to songs from the Eagles’ legendary “Hotel California” album, which singer Don Henley ...
NEW YORK (AP) — When Christie's was offered the chance to sell 13 pages of draft lyrics to the Eagles’ “Hotel California” in 2015, auction house executive Tom Lecky was “super excited.”
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Three men have been criminally charged in Manhattan with possessing about 100 pages stolen from the singer Don Henley of handwritten notes and lyrics for the Eagles ...
In 1974, Henley became involved with Lorelei Shellist, and the breakup of their relationship was the inspiration for the song "Wasted Time" and parts of the lyrics for "Hotel California". [78] [79] Late in 1975, Henley started dating Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks as her relationship with Lindsey Buckingham came to an end. [80]