The "full sensory experience" of song description, as Felder said, is intentional, as is the choice to have the song take place in California: a place nearly mythologized for its idyllic beauty and cabal of Hollywood celebrity. As described in Song Facts, it was written based on a series of chord progressions that guitarist Don Felder wrote on the beach. "Hotel California" won 1977's Grammy for Record of the Year. As the song progresses, and the singer encounters stranger characters and situations, the song's sense of entrapment grows and grows. The dreamy, acoustic opening segues into a sliding, dark bass that invites the listener to dream of contrasting worlds: what is seen, and what is real. Its lyrically vivid descriptions of pink champagne, shimmering lights, dark desert highways, and voices in the night conjure images of a journey that is superficially glamorous, but hides something lurking and insidious. "Hotel California" by the Eagles has inspired more than its fair share of theories and discussion since its release in 1976.
You can check out any time you like / But you can never leave
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