Each of the rooms has its own balcony and is designed in the Beverly Hills Hotel colors. The hotel was strategically built on a prominence above the main road, and resembled a palatial, colonial mansion. The Beverly Hills Hotel is still the essence of Hollywood's luxury pedigree. The Mediterranean Revival style hotel, in its trademark pale pink and green, is one of the most renowned hotels in the world.Ĭonstructed in 1912, in the middle of bean fields where rich polo players used to practice, the Beverly Hills Hotel was built BEFORE that city's existence. 'We were all middle class kids from the Midwest, ‘Hotel California’ was our interpretation of the high life in L.A.' Don Henley, Glenn Frey, and Don Felder share writing credits for the song, and Don Henley has made it very clear that the song was about 'a journey from innocence to experience.
Somehow, fans with big imaginations wove conspiracies about a deeper, hidden meaning, but the band members say it's just not so. So where is Hotel California? Well, the album cover art made it pretty clear. It featured a picture of the fabled Beverly Hills Hotel. Want it playing in your head the rest of the day? Here's a l ink to the Eagle's performing it. (Photo: The Eagles in concert performing Hotel California, 2010 tour in Australia. Hotel California quickly won a Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1978. But it also became a cultural icon for generations since. Its guitar solo is consistently named one of the greatest ever, and the roadtrip song is now in the Grammy Hall of Fame. This gallery uses material from the Wikipedia article Hotel California, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.It's one of the most loved travel songs of all time. And February 26th, 2017 marked the 40th anniversary of the Eagles' Hotel California. It really was forty years ago, in 1977, the band's most popular song was released as a single from the Eagles' album of the same name, and entered the Billboard Hot 100 charts. The album topped the charts and won the band two Grammy Awards for “Hotel California” and “New Kid in Town.” The album was nominated for Album of the Year in 1976 but lost to Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours.įlip through the gallery to learn more about Hotel California by the Eagles alone and over 30 million copies sold worldwide.
The album became the band’s best-selling studio album, with over 15 million copies sold in the U.S. It is also the last album featuring original bassist Randy Meisner. It is the first Eagles album without the appearance of their founding member Bernie Leadon and their first album with guitarist Joe Walsh. Hotel California was the Eagles’ fifth studio album, released on Asylum Records in late 1976.
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