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The Eagles: Hotel California (Asylum)

Kris Nicholson, Creem, March 1977

WELCOME TO the Hotel California, land of brutally handsome, cruel dudes and terminally pretty female victims of life's ugly games. A place where no one is above superficiality, except perhaps the singer of the song, where everybody has everything and still isn't happy.

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