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Hotel California

song written and composed by Don Felder, Don Henley and Glenn Frey; originally recorded by Eagles in 1976 and released in 1977
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Hotel California is a visualartwork associated with the genres of rock music and soft rock.

Key Facts

  • Composer: Don Felder[3]
  • Genre: rock music[4], soft rock[5]
  • Follows: New Kid in Town[6]
  • Followed by: Life in the Fast Lane[7]
  • Producer: Bill Szymczyk[8]
  • Performer: Eagles[9]
  • Language of work or name: English[10]
  • Country of origin: United States[11]
  • Inception: 1976[12]
  • Publication date: February 22, 1977[13]
  • Lyricist: Glenn Frey[14], Don Henley[15], Don Felder[16]
  • Main subject: California[17]
  • Described at URL: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2022-08-25/hotel-california-eagles-lyrics-alleged-stolen-don-henley?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB[18]
  • Title: Hotel California[19]
  • Different from: Hotel California[20]
  • Duration: 6.5 minutes[21]
  • Form of creative work: song[22]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Song[23]

  • Community tags: ripped off[24]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 22457dc0-ecbf-38f5-9056-11c858530a50[25]

Why It Matters

Hotel California has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] It is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

Related Entities

California Don Henley Eagles Glenn Frey United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . SecondHandSongs. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . latimes.com. Retrieved . latimes.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [23] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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