2024年1月19日 · The album cover for Hotel California is a photo of The Beverly Hills Hotel just before sunset. Photographer David Alexander shot the scene, and renowned art director John Kosh designed...

The album cover features a photograph of the Beverly Hills Hotel, taken by David Alexander. Hotel California was an immediate critical and commercial success, topping the US Billboard 200 chart. At the 20th Grammy Awards, the title track won Record of the Year, and "New Kid in Town" won Best Arrangement for Voices.

2021年5月21日 · According to Don Henley, the sleeve of The Eagles ’ 1976 album Hotel California was intended to convert an atmosphere of “faded glory, loss of innocence and …

2011年3月8日 · Designer Kosh talks working with Don Henley to create the "sumptuous" and "sinister" image that became one of the most well-known album covers in rock and roll history.

2023年8月21日 · The cover art for the Eagles ' 1976 album "Hotel California" features neither nude children nor images of violence, yet has itself been talked about for nearly five decades.

2024年3月26日 · The Eagles ' "Hotel California" is widely considered to be one of the greatest rock albums of all-time, thanks to the inclusion of such classic rock radio standards as "Life in the Fast Lane ...

2024年6月13日 · In his 2018 book, “The Yacht Rock Book: The Oral History of the Soft, Smooth Sounds of the 70s and 80s,” former Eagle Don Felder uncovers intriguing details about this iconic cover. Often, people have pondered over the identity of the hotel gracing the album’s front.

The cover photos of the Beverly Hills Hotel at sunset, taken at Will Rodgers Memorial Park, and the back cover and gatefold, taken in the lobby of the Lido Apartments in Los Angeles, were taken by David Alexander. The cover was designed by Kosh and Don Henley. A poster insert was included with first issues of the album.

"Hotel California” – a 1976 recording by The Eagles, released on Warner/Asylum Records and featuring designs, artwork and art direction by John Kosh.

The inner gatefold -- a quirky gathering of the Eagles' friends, employees and other business associates in the run-down lobby of the old Lido Hotel, in Hollywood -- vividly captures Henley's image of California as the greatest melting pot in the country.