{"id":27,"date":"2023-03-22T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psfrecords.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2025-02-25T01:41:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T01:41:03","slug":"hotel-california-the-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psfrecords.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/22\/hotel-california-the-eagles\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotel California &#8211; the Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Eagles hit album Hotel California is one of the best records which is really about legal troubles with the law and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Music\/comments\/132z0pt\/i_asked_chatgpt_to_interpret_hotel_california_and\/\">criminals trapped in a prison<\/a> who are free to check in anytime, but aren\u2019t allowed to leave.<br>Lets look at the Legal Lyrics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;Welcome to the Hotel California<br>Such a lovely place (such a lovely place)<br>Such a lovely face<br>They livin&#8217; it up at the Hotel California<br>What a nice surprise (what a nice surprise)<br>Bring your alibis&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One would only have to bring their alibies if they were living the life of crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;Last thing I remember, I was running for the door<br>I had to find the passage back to the place I was before<br>&#8220;Relax,&#8221; said the night man, &#8220;We are programmed to receive<br>You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you can check out at any time, but you can&#8217;t leave, is that not like a prison?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In any case, the song ended up being a massive hit for the eagles. &nbsp;Commercially, &#8220;Hotel California&#8221; reached the number one position on Billboards hot 100 and also reached the top ten of several international charts, selling millions of copies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Resources<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eagles.com\/\">Eagles official website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/0ECwFtbIWEVNwjlrfc6xoL\">Eagles on Spotify<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/eagles\/\">The Eagles article on Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1478123\/bio\/\">Eagles &#8211; Biography &#8211; IMDb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eagles hit album Hotel California is one of the best records which is really about legal troubles with the law and criminals trapped in a prison who are free to check in anytime, but aren\u2019t allowed to leave.Lets look at the Legal Lyrics: &#8220;Welcome to the Hotel CaliforniaSuch a lovely place (such a lovely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-longplay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psfrecords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psfrecords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psfrecords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psfrecords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psfrecords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/psfrecords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/psfrecords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psfrecords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psfrecords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psfrecords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psfrecords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}