Hotel California (Eagles album)

Occupation

  • Acoustic Guitar / Electric Guitar / Slide guitar / pedal steel guitar / vocals: Don Felder
  • Guitar / Synthesizer / Piano / Keyboard / Clavinet / vocals: Glenn Frey
  • Drums / percussion / synthesizer / vocal: Don Henley
  • Bass Guitar / Acoustic Guitar / guitarrón / vocals Randy Meisner
  • Electric, Slide and Acoustic Guitar / Hawaiian guitar / keyboard / piano / organ / synthesizer / vocals: Joe Walsh

Hotel California is an album by American country rock band Eagles, released in 1976. It is their first album without founding member Bernie Leadon and the first with Joe Walsh. It is also the last album by the Eagles with the bass player and singer Randy Meisner.

History

Hotel California was the fifth album by the Eagles and became a major commercial success. Since the publication in 1976 it was sold in the U.S. alone over 16 million copies and is therefore also considered their best-selling studio album. The album spent 1976-1977 eight weeks at # 1 ( not continuous) and contained two songs that were in the Billboard Hot as singles number one hits 100: New Kid in Town on 26 February 1977, at the Hotel California May 7, 1977.

Hotel California is one of the 15 best-selling albums so far, what the Eagles - makes it one of the top 5 of the most commercially successful bands - besides the Beatles and Led Zeppelin. However, these figures relate only to the U.S. because their success was significantly lower in Europe.

2001 Hotel California reached number 15 on the list of greatest albums " of all time" the television channel VH1, as well as number 13 in a poll of British television station Channel 4 of the 100 greatest albums of all time from the year 2005. 's Rolling Stone magazine was Hotel California ranked number 37 of the list of the greatest albums of all time from the year 2003.

The cover shows the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, taken by David Alexander.

Title list

  • Vocal and Acoustic Guitar: Glenn Frey; Guitarrón and Acoustic Guitar: Randy Meisner, electric guitar: Don Felder; Organ and electric piano: Joe Walsh
  • Vocals: Don Henley; Lead Guitar: Joe Walsh; Clavinet: Glenn Frey
  • Vocals: Don Henley; Piano: Glenn Frey; Electric Guitar: Don Felder; Organ: Joe Walsh
  • Strings arranged and conducted by Jim Ed Norman
  • Vocals: Don Henley; Lead Guitar: Don Felder; Slide guitar: Joe Walsh
  • Singing, piano and lead guitar: Joe Walsh; Synthesizer: Joe Walsh and Glenn Frey
  • Vocals: Randy Meisner; Lead Guitar: Glenn Frey; Gretsch Guitar: Joe Walsh
  • Vocals: Don Henley; Piano: Glenn Frey; Synthesizer: Joe Walsh and Don Henley; Pedal Steel Guitar: Don Felder.

Contributors

  • Don Felder - Acoustic guitar, slide & electric guitar, pedal steel guitar, vocals
  • Glenn Frey - guitar, synthesizer, piano, keyboards, clavinet, vocals
  • Don Henley- drums, percussion, synthesizer, vocals
  • Randy Meisner - bass guitar, acoustic guitar, guitarrón, song
  • Joe Walsh - guitar, slide and acoustic guitar, Hawaiian guitar, keyboard, piano, organ, synthesizer, vocals

In addition:

  • Jim Ed Norman - Conductor
  • Sid Sharp - Concert Master

Production

  • Producer - Bill Szymczyk
  • Audio engineering - Allan Blazek, Bruce Hensal, Ed Marshall, Bill Szymczyk
  • Re - Bill Szymczyk
  • String arrangement - Jim Ed Norman
  • Artistic Director - Don Henley, John Kosh
  • Design - John Kosh
  • Artwork - Kosh
  • Poster Design - Norman Seeff
  • CD Prep - Kevin Gray
  • Processing - Ted Jensen
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