"Hotel California" is the title song
from the Eagles' album
of the same name and was released as a single in February 1977. It is
one of the best-known songs of the album-oriented rock era. Writing credits for
the song are shared by Don Felder, Don
Henley, and Glenn
Frey.
One article says:
Whether you know "Hotel California" as "that weird
Eagles song" or "that weird devil-worshiping song" probably
depends on how religious your parents were.
The metaphorical character of the story related in the lyrics has inspired a number of conjectural interpretations by listeners. In the 1980s some Christian evangelists alleged that "Hotel California" referred to a San Francisco hotel that was purchased by Anton LaVeyand converted into a Church of Satan.Other rumors suggested that the Hotel California was the Camarillo State Mental Hospital.
When "Hotel California"
was released in 1976, everyone heard it but no one really knew what
it meant. The lyrics talked about trying to "Kill the beast" and
"Stab it with their steely knives," and included the ominous line,
"You can check out anytime you like but you can never leave."
But
according to the song writers on a 2009 interview:
''Don Henley and Glenn wrote most of the words. All of us kind of drove
into L.A. at night. Nobody was from California, and if you drive into L.A. at
night... you can just see this glow on the horizon of lights, and the images
that start running through your head of Hollywood and all the dreams that you
have, and so it was kind of about that... what we started writing the song
about. Coming into L.A.... and from that 'Life in the Fast Lane' came out of
it, and 'Wasted Time' and a bunch of other songs. ''
According to Glenn Frey's liner notes for The
Very Best Of, the use of the word
"steely" in the lyric (referring to knives) was a playful nod to band Steely Dan, who had included the lyric "Turn up the Eagles, the
neighbors are listening" in their song "Everything You Did".
We heard it from the song writers, that they don't mean to send devilish messages through their songs. For sure some of the critiques are not satisfied with these interviews and all..for no one can tell the real meaning but them. Whether they're saying the truth or not, one thing is for sure: THE EAGLE'S are LEGENDS.
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