Hear a remarkable version of Hotel California live in '76

Hear a remarkable version of Hotel California live in '76

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Listen to the Aussie premiere of this fantastic live version of "Hotel California" from the Eagles 40th Anniversary deluxe edition of their iconic album, due for release on November 24. 

This live version is taken from a show at The Forum in Los Angeles in 1976, recorded just a few weeks before the release of the Hotel California album.

Don Felder explains the track - "Don Henley and Glenn wrote most of the words. All of us kind of drove into L.A. at night. Nobody was from California, and if you drive into L.A. at night... you can just see this glow on the horizon of lights, and the images that start running through your head of Hollywood and all the dreams that you have, and so it was kind of about that... what we started writing the song about"

The Eagles won the 1977 Grammy Award for Record of the Year for "Hotel California" at the 20th Grammy Awards in 1978.

The song is rated highly in many rock music lists and polls; Rolling Stone magazine ranked it number 49 on its list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". It was named one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. At the induction of the Eagles into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998, all seven former and present members of the band reunited to perform "Hotel California".

The song's guitar solo was voted the best solo of all time by readers of Guitarist magazine in 1998, and was ranked 8th on Guitar Magazine's Top 100 Guitar Solos. The song was also included in the music video game Guitar Hero World Tour. It was ranked the number 1 in the list of the best 12-string guitar songs of all times by Guitar World magazine in 2015.

Pre-order the 40th Anniversary deluxe edition of Hotel California, here

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