‘Hotel California’ – Eagles
According to popular belief, the song is about purgatory, according to the lyric “this could be heaven, or this could be hell.” “It’s basically a song about the dark underbelly of the American dream and about excess in America, which is something we knew a lot about,” Don Henley said in a 2002 interview. We were all middle-class Midwesterners. “‘Hotel California’ was our take on the high life in Los Angeles.”
‘Hotel California’ Eagles
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