We take a deep dive into Hotel California to understand why its lyrics have fascinated listeners for nearly five decades.

This December will mark 50 years since the release of Hotel California, the Eagles' most successful album. The album's title ...

What Joe Walsh and Don Felder needed was Les Pauls and Teles, and lots of them – and Felder in particular made use of a Texan ...

The best classic rock songs often took inspiration from unexpected sources. For example, Eagles’ “Hotel California” was supposed to feel like a number of classic movies. The 1970s band Steely Dan also ...

And that’s where I wrote Hotel California. “When I first joined the band,” he continued, "my high school band mate Bernie Leadon told me, ‘If you want to wrote songs with Don [Henley] and Glenn [Frey] ...

Eagles will release a deluxe edition of their classic Hotel California album to celebrate the record's 40th anniversary. Even though the hit album was released in December 1976, most of its impact ...

The Eagles' legendary 'Hotel California' is turning 50.

During a 2016 interview with Rolling Stone, Henley discussed his feelings on The Eagles’ Hotel California. “I think that we were at the height of our powers,” he said. “Every band has a peak, and that ...

Don Henley, Joe Walsh, Randy Meisner, Glenn Frey and Don Felder of the rock band "Eagles" pose for a portrait in 1977. Eagles' Hotel California returns to Billboard's Top Country Albums chart this ...

One reason Eagles became so successful was that their lyrics perfectly complemented their music, adding depth of feeling to those timeless melodies. In creating those lyrics, the band added a powerful ...