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  Urban Legends Reference Pages: Music (Hotel California)
The Hotel California was the name of an inn run by cannibals who were in the habit of taking in guests only to serve them up for dinner.
Hotel California is an allegory about hedonism and greed in Southern California in the 1970s.
The real Hotel California is not a place; it is a metaphor for the west coast music industry and its effect on the talented but unworldy musicians who find themselves ensnared in its glittering web.
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 Hotel California By The Eagles Song Download - The Best Song of 80's - Hotel California Song History - Hotel California ...
Hotel California was the Eagles fifth album released in 1976 and probably their most recognized.
Song Hotel California was an enormous success for the band, The Eagles, a band known for combining rock and country sounds.
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 Hotel California (song) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Hotel California" was the title song from Eagles' album of the same name, and was released as a single at the end of 1976.
On the surface, the song is a tale of a weary traveler who becomes trapped in a nightmarish hotel that at first appeared tempting; as a metaphor the song may be commenting on drug addiction or simply the decadent lifestyle the hugely successful band had been caught up in.
As one of the group's most popular and well-known songs, "Hotel California" has been a concert staple for the band since its release; performances of the song appear on the Eagles' 1980 live album and, in an acoustic version, on the 1994 Hell Freezes Over reunion concert CD and video release.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hotel_California_(song)   (779 words)

  
 BBC - Northern Ireland - Music
Hotel California is undoubtedly one of the most memorable, dynamic and enigmatic songs of the 1970’s.
The album they unleashed that month was Hotel California and it was to become the most successful album of their career.
That hotel closed in 1998 but famous travel writer Joe Cummings, who personally contacted the Eagles or rather Don Henley and his legal people, was told they had no connection at all with Hotel California in Todos Santos.
www.bbc.co.uk /northernireland/music/story_behind/hotel_california.shtml   (754 words)

  
 Hotel California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hotel California was the Eagles' fifth album of original material and became a major commercial hit; since its release in late 1976, it has sold over 16 million copies in the U.S. alone, and is their best-selling album of original material.
Hotel California was ranked 95th in a 2005 survey held by British television's Channel 4 to determine the 100 greatest albums of all time.
Hotel California touched on many themes, including innocence (and the loss thereof), addiction to drugs, death, the dangers, temptations, and transient nature of fame, shallow relationships, divorce and loss of love, the end results of manifest destiny, and the "American Dream".
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 The song that won't check out - Telegraph
Three decades later some taste-makers still think of Hotel California as an overlong dirge; a song that's the antithesis of cool, conjuring images of a bunch of hairy musos who filled the charts while the likes of the Pistols, the Clash and the Damned were tearing up the rulebook.
Hotel California is about teetering on the cusp between the two states.
Hotel California is so complex that most musicians have left it well alone.
www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/04/26/bmhotel126.xml   (1019 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Hotel California: Eagles: Music
Hotel California was arguably the band's best single album--it was certainly the Eagles' biggest original disc-- and it also underscored the band's need to make a big statement.
HOTEL CALIFORNIA is 43 minutes of pure enjoyment, the classic album of the 1970s, and the greatest rock album of all time.
Hotel California deservedly hit #1 on the album charts upon release in late 1976 and has sold a staggering 16 million copies in the US alone and still holds up today, especially with the remastering job courtesy of Ted Jensen in 1999.
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 The Eagles - Hotel California lyric facts and meanings
California is used as the setting, but it could relate to anywhere in America.
The hotel on the album cover is the Beverly Hills Hotel, known as the Pink Palace.
The music bears a resemblance to the Jethro Tull song "We Used to Know." During a BBC radio interview, Ian Anderson (Tull's frontman) said laughingly that he was still waiting for the royalties.
www.rock-songs.com /songfacts/hotel-california-eagles.html   (787 words)

  
 BBC - Radio 2 - Sold On Song - TOP 100 - Hotel California
By the time the Eagles came to record their fifth album, they were in the enviable position of being the biggest band in America but by then they were barely talking to each other.
The tale was brooding and atmospheric, marking the hotel’s sad decline from elegance to decadence.
Hotel California is widely held to be an allegory for the death of the hippie dream.
www.bbc.co.uk /radio2/soldonsong/songlibrary/hotelcalifornia.shtml   (364 words)

  
 Hotel California Tunes
Hotel California is being billed as the first in a series of "short plays" from comic actors Richard...
First twenty bars of the solo from hotel california, this thing was a pain in the behind to put on the composer...
Hotel California, the members of the band all enjoyed successful solo careers, blending hard and soft rock to create a multitude of popular tunes...
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 TV ACRES: Real Estate - Hotels, Motels & Inns > Hotel California
- Mysterious hotel that was the focus of the hit song "Hotel California" recorded by the rock group The Eagles in 1976.
The idea for their Hotel California album came while one of the Eagles was watching episode No. 26 "The Guests" (3/23/64) of the sci-fi series THE OUTER LIMITS.
The lyrics in the Eagles song "They stab it with their steely knives but they just can't kill the beast" and "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave" were inspired by the program's plotline.
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 Locked into the Hotel California
Not many listeners will have been concerned about the song's contents, and we may assume that it is the music more than the lyrics, though the atmosphere of latter fits the former quite well, that made the song so popular.
The family of Dorian songs, for example, may be seen as using the seventh degree as a co-tonic and even employing two enharmonic variants of this seemingly identical note.
Though pop songs tend to adhere to a single key, pop music's harmonic reach is wide enough to encompass the tone sets of modal frames.
www.icce.rug.nl /~soundscapes/VOLUME09/Locked_into_the_Hotel_California.shtml   (8056 words)

  
 Todos Santos Pages - Hotel California
She also directly addressed the 1928 claim and unequivocally states that the hotel was founded in 1950, not 1928.
Some say it was the Hotel California for a long time and then, in the late 70's early 80's, the Hotel Mission Todos Santos and then the Hotel California once again.
There weren't many takers for an urban legend either, but by the time the hotel was open again as Hotel California in the late 80's, the legend had begun to grow.
www.todossantos-baja.com /todos-santos/eagles/hotel-california.htm   (1255 words)

  
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 Eagles Song Meanings - Hotel California - Lyric Interpretations.com
The generally agreed upon interpretation is that Hotel California is a song about the music business in California, and the effect that it has on young and naive artists.
The song is about anything addictive and corruptive that drags you down and wrecks your life, be it lust (which is the example), gambling, drinking, drugs or anything else which you allow to possess you.
Another interpretation I have found interesting is comparing the hotel with alcoholism/drug addiction (they stab it with their steely knives, but they just can't till the beast) and trying to overcome the addiction.
www.lyricinterpretations.com /lookat.php/bands/eagles/78699f8ef953535   (2009 words)

  
 BBC News | ENTERTAINMENT | 'Hotel California' for sale
A Mexican hotel which is rumoured to be the inspiration behind The Eagles' hit song Hotel California is up for sale for $1m.
Di Genaro, who came to Todos Santos from California, said: "When we purchased it we were told by some of the locals that this was the hotel that The Eagles sang about.
But it won't stop fans wanting to believe that the hotel in Todos Santos is the real Hotel California, according to US rock critic Anthony de Curtis.
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 Eagles: Hotel California
The song "Hotel California" is to many people identical with the Eagles.
The perfect way to discover the Eagles would probably be via their Best Of album but of all their individual releases, "Hotel California" stands out.
The last song "The Last Resort" closes the album just as perfectly as it was opened by the title song and everything inbetween is a joyride...
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This Orlando hotel displays a wealth of rock memorabilia, including outfits worn by Jimi Hendrix and Elvis.
The hotel’s Beach Club includes a 12,000-square-foot pool with zero-entry sand beach, 260-foot slide, and underwater speakers playing rock music.
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 The Eagles - Hotel California: The chords of the song
The Eagles - Hotel California: The chords of the song
PLEASE NOTE: This file is the authors' own work and represents their interpretation of the song.
Song: Hotel California Written by: Don Felder, Don Henley and Glenn Frey Band: The Eagles Album: Hotel California (1976) Key: Bm [first (12-string) guitar plays Em with capo on the 7th fret]
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 Hotel California USA - Welcome to THE Hotel California!
We're living it up at the Hotel California and hope you'll enjoy the magic that awaits those venturesome enough to dive into the colors of California getaway.
Many hotels around the globe call themselves Hotel California, named for the song that's captured the hearts of millions of people.
Like the spirit of surfing, travel, vacations, hotels and California itself, we believe that Hotel California can be any place that makes you feel good.
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 Hotel California
Hotel California was the Eagles fifth album realeased in 1976 and probably their most recognized.
The next song, New Kid In Town, is another excellent song and features the only lead vocal from Glenn Frey on the album.
If you would like any of these complete songs please email me at jmarsh@psci.net and I will send you the complete song.
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 "Hotel California"
He was the one who constructed the song's basic elements, including the 12-string introduction and the solos at the end, back in Los Angeles on his four-track Teac tape deck.
that "Hotel California" was about "facing some of the harsh realities of fame and life in Hollywood" that the Eagles had endured on their way to pop superstardom.
During the last leg of the tour, bassist Randy Meisner decided he'd seen enough hotel rooms in his seven years as an Eagle and left for the quiet of Nebraska to recuperate and instigate a solo career.
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 Salon.com Mothers Who Think | Welcome to the curriculum from hell
Yet, even as a veteran of institutional goofiness, I was caught off guard -- floored, to be honest -- when "Hotel California," the song by the Eagles, was the basis for an assignment in my kid's English class.
The first time this happened -- "Hotel California" was assigned as part of a poetry unit in my daughter's junior high class -- I went along.
I was still reeling from the fact that my son hadn't even heard of Sartre when the "Hotel California" assignment came into his life.
archive.salon.com /mwt/feature/2000/09/13/hotel_california/index.html   (721 words)

  
 Urban Legends -- Hotel California (All Lies)
The song is a warnings to other young artists not to fall into the same trap.
That the song is about the Church of Satan is obvious from both the lyrics and the Hotel California album cover.
The Hotel California album was a best seller, which it couldn't have been without help from the forces of darkness.
www.all-lies.com /legends/media/music/hotelcalifornia.shtml   (481 words)

  
 Welcome to cremationofcare.com - You are currently within the 'The Illuminati' section.
Was the song 'Hotel California' by seventies band 'The Eagles' inspired by (or even written about) the Bohemian Grove?
Some will say that the song is about drugs, some about an asylum for the insane, others will go as far as to say that it is about Satanism, but nobody seems to really know for sure.
Chapter 27 starting on page 201 of Cathy O’Brien’s controversial book Trance Formation of America documents how the 'Hotel California' was used within the mind control programmes of which she fell victim to at the Bohemian Grove.
www.cremationofcare.com /illu_hotel_california.htm   (491 words)

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