Hotel California drew heroic sales figures and critical plaudits in equal measure, and affirmed the band’s shift from laid-back country-tinged pop act to major players in the rock & roll fast lane. Their efforts would create a song cycle that succeeded on nearly every level. Don and I were going, ‘Man, this better be good.'” “Everybody was going to look at the next record we made and pass judgment. “We were under the microscope,” Glenn Frey said of the time. Their previous album, 1975’s One of These Nights, had spawned three Top 10 singles, and their greatest-hits album sold in such stratospheric numbers – on its way to becoming the best-selling album of the 20th century in the United States – that the RIAA had to invent to platinum certification. It was a scene they were uniquely qualified to address. With Hotel California, the Eagles sought to capture the excesses and self-destructive behavior that had become status quo in the rock world. It tightened its grasp on the band, the music industry and the country at large. A deep malaise had set in, one which couldn’t be soothed by money, sex or drugs.
By the second half the Seventies, the Eagles‘ “Peaceful Easy Feeling” seemed like a distant memory, a pleasantly stoned dream rudely interrupted by the pressures of business and fame.
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