Hotel California (Album)

Hotel California
Eagles studio album
Publication (s)	December 8, 1976
Label (s)	Asylum Records
Format (s)	CD, LP, DVD-Audio
Genre (s)	skirt
Title (number)	9
length	43:30
occupation	Acoustic guitar / electric guitar / slide guitar / pedal steel guitar / vocals : Don Felder Guitar / Synthesizer / Piano / Keyboard / Clavinet / Vocals: Glenn Frey Drums / Percussion / Synthesizer / Vocals: Don Henley Bass guitar / acoustic guitar / guitarrón / vocals: Randy Meisner Electric, slide and acoustic guitar / Hawaiian guitar / keyboard / piano / organ / synthesizer / vocals: Joe Walsh
production	Bill Szymczyk
Studio (s)	Criteria Studios, Miami ; Record Plant Studios, Los Angeles
chronology Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) (1976) Hotel California The Long Run (1979)

Hotel California is a music album by the US country rock band Eagles , released in 1976. It's her first album without founding member Bernie Leadon and the first with Joe Walsh . It is also the Eagles' last album with bassist and singer Randy Meisner.

story

Hotel California was the Eagles' fifth album and became a huge commercial hit. Since its release in 1976, it has sold over 16 million copies in the US alone and over 32 million worldwide. Her best-selling studio album is also one of the world's best-selling music albums . The album was number one on the US charts for a total of eight weeks in 1976 and 1977 and contained two tracks that were number one hits on the Billboard Hot 100 as singles for one week each in 1977 : New Kid in Town on February 26 and Hotel California on May 7th.

Hotel California is one of the 15 best-selling albums in the USA to date , which makes the Eagles - alongside the Beatles and Led Zeppelin - one of the most commercially successful bands. The success in Europe, on the other hand, was significantly lower.

2001 reached Hotel California 15th place on the list of greatest albums "of all time" the television channel VH1 , as well as number 13 in a survey by the British television station Channel 4 's 100 greatest albums of all time from the year 2005. In the magazine Rolling Stone was Hotel California ranked 37th on the list of Greatest Albums of All Time from 2003.

The cover shows The Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, shot by David Alexander.

The Beverly Hills Hotel
in 1925

Track list

1. Hotel California (Felder, Henley, Frey) - 6:30

   Singing and percussion: Don Henley; Guitar solos: Joe Walsh and Don Felder

2. New Kid in Town ( JD Souther , Henley, Frey) - 5:04

   Vocals and acoustic guitar: Glenn Frey; Guitarrón and acoustic guitar: Randy Meisner, electric guitar: Don Felder; Organ and electric piano: Joe Walsh

3. Life in the Fast Lane (Walsh, Henley, Frey) - 4:46

   Singing: Don Henley; Lead guitar: Joe Walsh; Clavinet: Glenn Frey

4. Wasted Time (Henley, Frey) - 4:55

   Singing: Don Henley; Piano: Glenn Frey; Electric guitar: Don Felder; Organ: Joe Walsh

5. Wasted Time (Reprise) (instrumental) (Henley, Frey, Jim Ed Norman) - 1:22

   Strings arranged and conducted by Jim Ed Norman

6. Victim of Love (Felder, Souther, Henley, Frey) - 4:11

   Singing: Don Henley; Lead guitar: Don Felder; Slide guitar: Joe Walsh

7. Pretty Maids All in a Row (Walsh, Joe Vitale) - 4:05

   Vocals, piano and lead guitar: Joe Walsh; Synthesizers: Joe Walsh and Glenn Frey

8. Try and Love Again (Meisner) - 5:10

   Singing: Randy Meisner; Lead guitar: Glenn Frey; Gretsch guitar: Joe Walsh

9. The Last Resort (Henley, Frey) - 7:25

   Singing: Don Henley; Piano: Glenn Frey; Synthesizers: Joe Walsh and Don Henley; Pedal steel guitar: Don Felder

Contributors

• Don Felder: acoustic guitar , slide & electric guitar , pedal steel guitar , vocals
• Glenn Frey : guitar, synthesizer , piano , keyboard , clavinet , vocals
• Don Henley : drums , percussion , synthesizer, vocals
• Randy Meisner: bass guitar , acoustic guitar , guitarrón , vocals
• Joe Walsh : Electric guitar, slide and acoustic guitar, Hawaiian guitar , keyboard, piano, organ , synthesizer, vocals

• Jim Ed Norman: Conductor
• Sid Sharp: concertmaster

Production:

• Producer; Sound mix: Bill Szymczyk
• Sound engineering: Allan Blazek, Bruce Hensal, Ed Marshall, Bill Szymczyk
• String arrangement: Jim Ed Norman
• Artistic Directors: Don Henley, John Kosh
• Design, artwork: John Kosh
• Photographer: David Alexander
• Poster design: Norman Seeff
• CD preparation: Kevin Gray
• Editing: Ted Jensen

Charts and chart placements

ChartsChart placements	Top ranking	Weeks
Germany (GfK)	3 (54 weeks)	54
Austria (Ö3)	9 (24 weeks)	24
Switzerland (IFPI)	99 (1 week)	1
United Kingdom (OCC)	2 (85 weeks)	85
United States (Billboard)	1 (... Where.)	...

Sales figures and awards

Country / Region	Awards for Mu-sik-ver-käu-fe (country / region, Award, Sales)	Sales
Australia (ARIA)	9 × platinum	630,000
Denmark (IFPI)	gold	10,000
Germany (BVMI)	platinum	500,000
Finland (IFPI)	gold	30,933
France (SNEP)	diamond	1,000,000
Hong Kong (IFPI / HKRIA)	platinum	20,000
Italy (FIMI)	gold	50,000
Canada (MC)	diamond	1,000,000
New Zealand (RMNZ)	platinum	15,000
Netherlands (NVPI)	platinum	80,000
Austria (IFPI)	gold	25,000
Switzerland (IFPI)	2 × platinum (WEA) + 2 × platinum (Warner)	150,000
Spain (Promusicae)	4 × platinum	400,000
United States (RIAA)	26 × platinum	26,000,000
United Kingdom (BPI)	6 × platinum	1,800,000
All in all	4 × gold, 33 × platinum, 4 × diamond	31,760,933

Main article: Eagles / Music Sales Awards

Web links

• Eagles - Hotel California at Discogs

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 'Back to basics' with Don Henley | Recorder.com. November 1, 2013, accessed July 8, 2021 . 
2. ↑ http://www.classicbands.com/bestsellers.html
3. ↑ Levy, Joe (Ed.): Rolling Stone. The 500 best albums of all time . (Original edition: Rolling Stone. The 500 Greatest Albums of all Time . Wenner Media 2005). Translation: Karin Hofmann. Wiesbaden: White Star Verlag, 2011, p. 56
4. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US