What is the picture on Hotel California?
The front cover is a photograph of the Beverly Hills Hotel by David Alexander. Hotel California topped the US Billboard Top LPs & Tapes chart.
What is the building on the album cover of Hotel California?
the Beverly Hills Hotel
Choosing the shot of the Beverly Hills Hotel was the easy part. To shoot it had been more of a challenge, requiring Kosh and Alexander to sit for hours in a ‘cherry-picker’ platform suspended 60 feet above the street, firing off their cameras, trying to capture the exact moment when the sun dipped behind the building.
What is the message behind Hotel California?
The song is about “excess in America” While there have been many theories that contemplate what the song represents, the Eagles’ band members have revealed in multiple interviews that the true meaning behind “Hotel California” is a commentary on the hedonism and self-indulgence of America.
Were the Eagles’ “Hotel California” photos photographed at an actual hotel?
Neither the front, back or gatefold photos used on The Eagles album “Hotel California” were photographed at an actual hotel named California. We previously wrote all the details about the classic album cover photoshoot at The Beverly Hills Hotel.
Where was the cover photo of the hills filmed?
The back cover photo was not shot in The Beverly Hills Hotel lobby but rather in the lobby of the much lower budget Lido Hotel on the corner of Yucca Street & Wilcox Avenue in Hollywood, California.
Is the song “Hotel California” about cannibalism?
The song “Hotel California” has inspired a number of conjectural song interpretations ranging from hedonistic to satanic or speaking about heroin addiction and even cannibalism. Either way, growing up I was always freaked out by the photo and the ghostly figure that appears on the balcony above the lobby.