Hotel California - The Eagles

The Eagles released Hotel California in 1976, a concept album, it went on to become one of the top selling albums of all time, and included the karaoke favourite Hotel California and the hits Life In The Fast Lane and New Kid In Town, (surely the inspiration behind all that is Bagatelle)

Don Henley best describes the album himself in an interview for rock magazine Zig Zag

"This is a concept album, there's no way to hide it, but it's not set in the old West, the cowboy thing, you know. It's more urban this time (. . . ) It's our bicentennial year, you know, the country is 200 years old, so we figured since we are the Eagles and the Eagle is our national symbol, that we were obliged to make some kind of a little bicentennial statement using California as a microcosm of the whole United States, or the whole world, if you will, and to try to wake people up and say 'We've been okay so far, for 200 years, but we're gonna have to change if we're gonna continue to be around."

Hmmmm...probably should have called themselves The Egos.....

Hotel California is Thursdays Critical Junction.

Track Listing
1. Hotel California
2. New Kid In Town
3. Life In The Fast Lane
4. Wasted Time
5. Wasted Time (Reprise)
6. Victim Of Love
7. Pretty Maids All In A Row
8. Try And Love Again
9. Last Resort, The