“Hotel California” by The Eagles Original Painting (Sold) Editions ‘Starman’ was written as a

‘Starman’ was written as a direct response to the head of RCA Dennis Katz's request for a single for the album ‘The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars’

'Tumbling Dice' was written to fit Keith's riff

Penny Lane distills the spirit of that time more perfectly than any other creative product of the mid-sixties

The single also saw success worldwide and this had important ramifications for the band's career at a critical time

creating “a rocking dirty noise that owed as much to Keith Richards as it did to the departed Mick Ronson”

“Hotel California” by The Eagles Original Painting (Sold) Editions ‘Starman’ was written as aHotel California is the title song from the Eagles album of the same name and was released as a single in February 1977. Its one of the best known songs of the album oriented rock era. Writing credits for the song are shared by Don Felder, Don Henley and Glenn Frey. Hotel California topped the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for one week in May 1977 and won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year. Glenn Frey said: The song began as a demo tape, an