and that band's album Hotel California is at number three. What is the spooky title track all about, asks Alan Connor. Rock stars of the 1970s were not kind to hotels. In Life's Been Good ...

The Eagles' "Hotel California" was supposed to feel like a number of movies. The 1970s band Steely Dan also helped inspire the track.

It remains the group’s most prominent studio album in the United States. Even if “Hotel California” and “Stairway to Heaven” don’t sound similar, they hold similar places in the ...

The Eagles' "Hotel California" alludes to the name of another rock band that was popular in the 1970s. The band in question might not have been big Eagles fans.