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Hotel California is the fifth studio album by American rock band 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 Randy ...
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 ...
Their highest-selling studio album is 1976's Hotel California, which was certified 26× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. [1] The album's title track was their fourth number-one single on the pop charts, as well as their highest certified single, being certified Platinum.
"The Last Resort" is a song written by Don Henley and Glenn Frey, which describes industry and commerce inevitably destroying beautiful places. It was originally released on the Eagles' album Hotel California on December 8, 1976. [1]
Eagles Live is the first live album by the American rock band Eagles, a two-LP set released on November 7, 1980. Although the Eagles were already in the process of breaking up, [3] [4] the band owed Elektra/Asylum Records one more album and fulfilled that contractual obligation with a release of performances from the Hotel California and The Long Run tours.
Eagles Greatest Hits Volume 2 is the second compilation album by the Eagles. It features many of their biggest hits not on Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975), including "Hotel California", their signature song. The album was released in 1982, after the band's breakup. That same year, Don Henley and Glenn Frey both released their debut solo albums.
The song "Desperado" was ranked number 494 on Rolling Stone 's 2004 list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". The album did yield two singles, "Tequila Sunrise" and "Outlaw Man", which reached number 64 and number 59 respectively. The album reached number 41 on the Billboard album chart and was certified gold by the RIAA on September 23 ...
Rolling Stone listed it as number 368 on their 2012 edition of the 500 greatest albums of all time list with the comment that the album "created a new template for laid-back L.A. country-rock style". [3] It rose to number 207 in the 2020 edition of the list. [4] It was included in Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. [30]