"Hotel California" is a song sung by the American rock band Eagles. The lyrics are composed by Don Henry, Glee Frey, and Don Felder. The drummer Don Henry is the lead singer. It was released on February 22, 1977. It was included in the band’s fifth studio album of the same name "Hotel California".In 1978, the song won the 20th Grammy Awards for Recording of the Year.

The 1960s was a period of free creation in the American music industry. The popularity of rock music became a symbol of freedom and rebellious ideas in that era. However, its pomp also gradually resulted in musicians’ increasingly corrupt attitude towards life. Money and pleasure became rock music in the 20th century. The new image in the 1970s. The Eagles, who are also musicians, saw this fact but were powerless. Faced with doubts from the outside world, they wrote the following lyrics as if they resolved themselves: "Just relax, we are naturally prone to be tempted; you can end at any time," But you can never break free."

The song’s creator and lead singer Don Henry believes that "Hotel California" is about the journey from innocence to maturity, about the passing of innocence, and nothing more. Henry said that the band members are a group of young people with a middle-class background in Midwestern states. The song is their understanding of the upper class of Los Angeles. It can also be seen as a symbol of the United States, which always pursues a life of luxury, not just It's about California and Beverly Hills. Don Henry once studied poetry when he was a student, so he applied poetry writing to song creation.

As one of the most successful works of the Eagles, "Hotel California" has become a symbolic song in the United States. The classic guitar melody, the content of the strange and inexplicable lyrics, and the touching sadness made this song conquer a large number of listeners. The performance of the song is also classical, folk, and rock arrangement, which will undoubtedly make many listeners who have misunderstood rock music experience the great tolerance of rock music and the breadth of the use of music technology by truly outstanding rock musicians.

"Hotel California" is a symbol of spiritual freedom to some extent. It presents the ideal and spiritual freedom pursued by a hippie walking on the highway in the 1970s. In an era without digitization and sound and light, this simple but touching song is almost the representative word of American country music.