Hotel California is a music album which was released in the month of December in the year 1976 and it depicts the emotional exhaustion of the West Coast when the love and peace converted into Sceptical pleasure seeking. It was a soundtrack of immoral times and yet was able to sell about 16 million copies or may be more. This album is given by a band that has matured and learned the hard way that is by continuously touring for five years and constantly giving hit records. It is said by many famous personalities that this album explores the bottom of success and the dark side of paradise.
It is the title song of an album given by Eagles by the name of Eagles itself. It is one of the very popular songs from a rock oriented album. The original recorded voice in the title song is of Don Henley who himself had written the lyrics of the song. He has sung in lead voice while concluding the song with the music of electric guitar which was interplayed between Don Felder and Joe Walsh. This song was on the top 100 playlist of Billboard for a whole week in May 1977. The group crossed all the boundaries of rock with their music all over the world.
The band of Eagles got disbanded in 1982 and left behind a musical void which could only be filled by this spectacular album Eagles and became the world's most loved album due to this title song Hotel California. The Eagles had ruled the music world in the decade of 70s. They had achieved a whole lot of Platinum and Gold records, a number of awards and maintained the constant demand of music and live performances. Now, the latest six most respected and multi talented groups of musicians present a recreation of the song in their own versions.
Hotel California is the most recognized song among all classic rock songs and even among the complete Eagles collection. It narrates the story of a person who is driving through the highway and stops at a hotel for taking some rest when he gets tired but the hotel turns out to be a great pleasure place having a disturbing story. The people do not try to understand the actual meaning of the lyrics and generally figure out that the hotel would really be a lovely place and only if the song is heard carefully it can be well understood that there is a dark side of the hotel which is being talked about. The album contains a lot of other chart busters also like One of These nights, Take it Easy, Heartache Tonight, Take it to the Limit, Lyin' eyes, New Kid in Town, Witchy Woman, Desperado, Tequila Sunrise, Best of my Love and Life in the Fast Lane and many more recent releases like Love will keep us Alive and Get Over It.
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