“Yeah, well, me neither,” Henley said, laughing.
“I have no clue what it means, but I like it,” King said. One of their classic hits is “Hotel California.” Visitors there often ask if it is The Shining hotel. You know, the Troubadour Bar was the center of the universe at that point in time,” Henley recalled.Īfter playing backup for Linda Ronstadt, Frey convinced Henley to form a band of their own. The hotel interiors shown in the film (which were not actual hotel interiors, but studio sets) are not based on the Stanley, but are instead based on a number of diverse hotels across the country, especially the Ahwahnee Hotel (above) in Yosemite National Park, California. “He walked up to me one night in the Troubadour and handed me a beer, and he just started to talking to me. It all began in 1970 at the Los Angeles nightclub, where Don Henley met Glenn Frey. Between 1971 and conceiving the album in February 1977 the band. Between their arrival on the scene, and the writing of Hotel California the band wrote, released and toured four major albums and delivered a Greatest Hits album that remains one of the all time best sellers. And they remain the best-selling American band of all time. The story behind Hotel California is the band’s rapid rise to fame. The Eagles have sold more than $150 million records worldwide. We probably could have been more productive … although we were pretty productive, considering.”Īnd they sure were. In 2015, Muphy talked about the real-life impact Cecil Hotel had on that season of AHS. The season centers around an LA hotel named Hotel Cortez where many deaths and paranormal activity has taken place.
And you know, looking back on it, there’s some regrets about that. American Horror Story: Hotel is the fifth season of the series for creator Ryan Murphy. “It was what everybody was doing, which doesn’t make it right necessarily.