My Sunday #50 is “Hotel California” by The Eagles. When you add on 2 special edition weekends, this is the 52nd week of My Sunday Song. One full year!! Each 10 weeks I have been switching up the theme, but I am enjoying going through my favorite songs so much that I will continue with this theme for a lot longer.
I had to choose a very special song to celebrate a year’s worth of My Sunday Song so I chose what just might be one of the songs ever written or ever played. “Hotel California” is pure magic in songwriting. Musically it can’t be beat and lyrically it conveys a mastery of storytelling.
“Hotel California” is the title track to the album of the same name. The single was released in February 1977 and went all the way to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song also won the band a Grammy (which they did not attend because Henley didn’t believe in contests or something like that). The song was written by Don Felder (who wrote the music), Don Henley (who wrote the lyrics) and Glenn Frey (who contributed some lyrics, but mostly helped with the outlining of the story).
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