Australian singles chart:
Hotel California entered the Kent Music Report on 30 May 1977 and peaked at #60.
Album:
The song is on Hotel California which entered the Kent Music Report album chart on 13 December 1976. It hit the #1 spot on 17 January 1977 and remained on top for 12 weeks.
Songwriters:
Don Felder, Don Henley, Glenn Frey
Producer:
Bill Szymczyk
Record label of Australian release:
Asylum
Wikipedia:
The Eagles won the 1977 Grammy Award for Record of the Year for Hotel California at the 20th Grammy Awards in 1978.
The song is rated highly in many rock music lists and polls; Rolling Stone magazine ranked it number 49 on its list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. It was named one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_California
Songfacts:
Written by Don Felder, Glenn Frey and Don Henley, Hotel California 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.”
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/eagles/hotel-california
Lyrics:
On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
I had to stop for the night
There she stood in the doorway
I heard the mission bell
And I was thinking to myself
“This could be Heaven or this could be Hell”
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