It has outperformed all of The Eagles’ other singles in that regard. “Hotel California” is a perfect song and, if you listen to it, you might just smell the scent of colitas rising up ...

But the Eagles? The laid-back, cleanly-coiffed band who urged America: "We oughta take it easy"? Hotel California was one of the band's biggest hits The senior Eagles, Glenn Frey and Don Henley ...

They said the owners played Eagles songs in the lobby and sold Hotel California T-shirts, fridge magnets and posters. "Multiple online reviews make clear" that visitors were deceived, they added.

Despite the success of Hotel California in 1976 and on the subsequent tour that followed, the Eagles were coming apart at the seams. Henley and Frey, who wrote most of the band’s songs ...