What's The Meaning Behind The Song Hotel California???!
Question: The Eagles Sing It.
Answers: The Eagles Sing It.
Hotel California
The Eagles
Posted Dec 09, 2004 12:00 AM
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Written by: Don Felder, Glenn Frey, Don Henley
Produced by: Bill Szymczyk
Released: Dec. '76 on Asylum
Charts: 19 weeks
Top spot: No. 1
"Hotel California" was rumored to be about heroin addiction or Satan worship, but Henley had more prosaic things on his mind: "We were all middle-class kids from the Midwest," he said. " 'Hotel California' was our interpretation of the high life in Los Angeles." (That doesn't preclude heroin or Satan.) A problem arose when the band, recording in Miami, was unable to re-create Felder's twelve-string intro and twin-guitar coda. Panicked, Felder called his housekeeper in L.A. and sent her digging through tapes in his home studio so she could play his demo back over the phone.
Appears on: Hotel California (Elektra)
This 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."
On November 25, 2007 Henley appeared on the TV news show 60 Minutes, where he was told, "everyone wants to know what this song means." Henley replied: "I know, it's so boring. It's a song about the dark underbelly of the American Dream, and about excess in America which was something we knew about."
I always heard it was about addiction.
no escape