Hotel California (single)

Hotel California is the name of the title song of the eponymous album by the American band Eagles . The song was also released as a single. It is one of the most famous songs in modern music history and the Eagles of the best known song.



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*1 General  ==General Comments [  edit ] == The original version of the song has the structure of a traditional rock song in the beginning a repetitive melodic guitar theme, then supplemented with singing, with the Guitar and bass supporting vocals. After the passage the song ends with a number, successive guitar solos that varied repeat the opening portion. The prominent guitars are played by Joe Walsh and Don Felder . The lyrics of the song written by Don Henley and Glenn Frey, the music by the aforementioned Don Felder.
 * 2 Interpretation
 * 3 Other embodiments
 * 4 Prices
 * 5 Miscellaneous
 * 6 Hitnotering
 * 6.1 Dutch Top 40
 * 6.2 Radio 2 Top 2000
 * 6.3 JOE FM Hitarchief Top 2000

Walsh said in the Top 2000 à Go-Go version 2007 that the title refers to the many artists who migrated to California around that time to be part of all art movements that took place there and there acquired freedoms. But many went as fast as they came; California was like a halfway house short stay; a hotel .

Hotel California is probably influenced by in 1969 by the group Jethro Tull song published on their album Stand Up 'We used to know'. The agreements are similar and at the time of the release of 'We used to know' toured the two groups together. ==[Interpretation  edit ] == The text of the song is about a weary traveler who spends the night in a luxury hotel that looks initially hospitable and welcoming, but later turns out to be a terrible place where you can never leave.

The abstract structure of the text has led many people make their own interpretations have given. An often-heard theory that the text an allegory for the hedonism and self-destruction in the music industry ofSouthern California during the 70s of the 20th century. Don Henley called it "our interpretation of the high life in Los Angeles" [1]

During an appearance on The Howard Stern Show on July 17, 2008 Don Felder gave the following description of the origin of the text: <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">"Don Henley and Glen wrote most of the words. All of us children or drove into LA at night. Nobody was from California, and if you drive into LA at night ... you can just see this glow on the horizon or lights, and the Images that start running through your head or Hollywood and all the dreams That you have, and so it was a child or about that ... what we started writing the song about. Coming into and from LA ... That Life In The Fast Lane came out of it, and Wasted Time and a bunch of other songs. " <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Other theories about the text that the text satanic would contain aspects (especially the sentence but They just can not kill the beast) that the hotel from the song the Camarillo State Mental Hospital (a facility for mentally disabled) would be, and that the text is a metaphor for cancer . However, all these theories are denied by the Eagles. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">A popular rumor at the University of North Texas is that the song would be about Don Henleys experiences while living in Bruce Hall.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">A portion of the text in the song clearly shows the mood and spirit of California ("a way of life") again, often by people fantasized. A possible metaphor for "the beast" can drink and / or drugs do, but also that people are inclined in a "rut" ending up, a habit to live in. "You can checkout any time you like, But you can never leave!" clearly shows that people are likely difficult from this pattern (life) to escape and often fall back into the daily grind ... may be associated with all sorts of problems associated with alcohol, drugs, money problems, etc. ==Other versions <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">There are a few cover versions of famous Hotel California. So took the Gipsy Kings partial Spanish flamenco version, told in the movie The Big Lebowski . Also, The Scorpions made ​​a cover and in 2004 a version ofWilliam Hung . The Australian band The Cat Empire is a French version known under the title L'Hotel California. The Moonraisers took the song into a reggae version . Also Majek Fashek took a reggae version of the song on. There is also a Dutch version of Jan Rot. ==<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Prices  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Hotel California won a Grammy Award in 1978.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In many over the years established lists of "best pop songs of all time 'Hotel California ends up in the list. In 2010, Hotel California was for the first time in first place in the Top 2000 of Radio 2. That position reached the number in 2014 again. ==<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Miscellaneous  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Hitnotering  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Dutch Top 40 <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Radio 2 Top 2000 <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===JOE FM Hitarchief Top 2000 <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===
 * Besides the original version the song The Eagles have also given a place on their live album released in 1980 and also (but in an acoustic version) on their 1994 released CD and video Hell freezes over .
 * The phrase They stab it withtheir  steely  knives / But They just can not kill the beast is believed to be a reference-with-a-wink "is the following passage from Steely Dan : Turn up the Eagles, the neighbors are listening to their song "Everything You Did '. In an interview in 2003, Glenn Frey this is indeed confirmed. <sup class="noprint nopopups" style="line-height:1;">[source?]