“I had rented a house on the beach in Malibu that summer and we were writing songs for what was going to become the Hotel California album," guitarist and songwriter Don Felder told Guitarist Magazine of the song's creation. If Rumours detailed the breakdown of relations within the Mac, Hotel California dissected the demise of the hippie dream, dismantling the notion of LA as some sun-kissed Utopia. It might have been the epitome of carefree freeway rock, but Hotel California was a dark affair, and certainly melancholy for a mega-seller (to date, the album has sold 32 million copies and counting). ![]() You want punk? These five “middle-class kids from the Midwest” ( Don Henley) came not to pursue the west coast myth but to bury it.
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