![]() ![]() The Gipsy Kings recorded a flamenco version of the song with Spanish lyrics, released in 1988 and later featured in the film The Big Lebowski. Here are our top five favorite covers of “ Hotel California”. The opening chord pattern is inspired by traditional flamenco chord progressions, and is notoriously complex. ![]() Henley has famously said: “It’s a song about the dark underbelly of the American dream and about excess in America, which is something we knew a lot about.” The popularity of the song has spawned a huge amount of conspiracy theories as well as musical covers. The song is an allegory about greed and self-destruction. The hotel seems inviting at first, but it turns out to be a trap of hedonism. The lyrics paint an almost surreal scene in which a weary traveler checks into a luxury hotel. The song was instantly successful, both on the charts, and in sales. It does seem in many ways to be a song about the journey from innocence into experience, in any case. The Eagles have described the song as their interpretation of “the high life in Los Angeles”, which both is and is not a reference to drugs. The original recording of the song features Don Henley on vocals with an extended section of guitar riffing and interplay between the great guitar masters, Don Felder and Joe Walsh. “ Hotel California” by the Eagles is one of the greatest rock songs of 1977. Nancy Sinatra, 1960 (Photo by David Redfern/Redferns/Getty Images) ![]()
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