![]() ![]() Then, we just sort of got brave with ‘Hotel California’ and we said ‘It’s just a movie, it doesn’t have to make sense. Don and I, really liked Steely Dan and they had some pretty brave and different lyrics and we’d never done anything outside the box really. “Everbody wants to know what the song is about but we don’t know. Here’s what the late rockstar Glenn Frey said about the lyrics during a BBC interview: Although the track was later named ‘Hotel California,’ initially they thought it would be a good idea to call it ‘ Mexican Reggae‘ as Felder had mixed in a reggae drum beat and used a Spanish guitar sound. ![]() He then decided to record it and send it to his bandmates Don Henley and Glenn Frey so that they could consider adding it to their upcoming album.Īfter listening to the demo, Glenn and Henley immediately saw its great potential and started writing the lyrics. It was Don Felder who came up with the tune and he wrote most of the guitar parts of ‘Hotel California’ in 1976 while relaxing at a beach rental home in Malibu. ![]()
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