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Hotel California is the fifth studio album by American rock band the Eagles, released on December 8, 1976, by Asylum Records.Recorded by the band and produced by Bill Szymczyk at the Criteria and Record Plant studios between March and October 1976, it was the band's first album with guitarist Joe Walsh, who had replaced founding member Bernie Leadon, and the last to feature founding bassist ...
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 Eagles had their origin in early 1971, when Linda Ronstadt and her manager John Boylan recruited musicians Glenn Frey and Don Henley for her band. [6] Henley had moved to Los Angeles from Texas with his band Shiloh to record an album produced by Kenny Rogers, [7] and Frey had come from Michigan and formed Longbranch Pennywhistle; the two then met in 1970 at The Troubadour in Los Angeles ...
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.” “It just felt ...
In the mid-1970s, the Eagles were working on a spooky, cryptic new song. On a lined yellow pad, Don Henley, with input from band co-founder Glenn Frey, jotted thoughts about “a dark desert ...
Don Henley never gave away handwritten pages of draft lyrics to “Hotel California” and other Eagles hits, he said Monday, calling them “very personal" in testimony that also delved into an ...
The Eagles have a total of 18 Top 40 hits on the pop charts, as well as several hits on the adult contemporary chart. They are one of the best-selling popular music artists in history. Their highest-selling studio album is 1976's Hotel California, which was certified 26× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. [1]
An unusual criminal case over allegedly stolen handwritten lyrics for the Eagles’ classic rock album Hotel California has been abruptly dropped mid-trial.. Three men had been accused of ...