Journal of Alta California

Hotel California

 Classic rock doesn’t get much more classic than the Eagles’ “Hotel California.” Multi-hit, multiplatinum, it was an essential part of any respectable dorm-room music collection in the late 1970s or early ‘80s. And its iconic songs play on forever on today’s oldies radio stations and Spotify playlists.

But “Hotel California” is more than a mere

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