Eagles – Hotel California

HD Remastered Official Music Video for “Hotel California” (Live from the Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland in 1977) performed by the Eagles. Original song from ‘Hotel California’ (1976).

“Hotel California” – Single by Eagles from the album Hotel California
B-side: “Pretty Maids All in a Row”
Released: February 22, 1977
Recorded: 1976
Songwriters: Don Felder Don Henley Glenn Frey
Producer: Bill Szymczyk
Charted No.1 in US, Mo.8 in UK,. No.1 in Canada, No.2 in France, No.6 in Germany

Written by Don Felder, Glenn Frey and Don Henley, this song is about materialism and excess. California is used as the setting, but it could relate to anywhere in America. Don Henley in the London Daily Mail November 9, 2007 said: “Some of the wilder interpretations of that song have been amazing. It was really about the excesses of American culture and certain girls we knew. But it was also about the uneasy balance between art and commerce.”

“Hotel California” first entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart dated February 26, 1977, and topped the Hot 100 singles chart for one week in May 1977, the band’s fourth song to reach No. 1 on that chart. It peaked at number 10 on the Easy Listening chart in April 1977. Billboard ranked it number 19 on its 1977 Pop Singles year-end chart. Three months after its first release, the single was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), representing one million copies shipped. In 2009, the song was further certified Platinum (Digital Sales Award) by the RIAA for sales of one million digital downloads, and has since sold over 3 million downloads.