Three men go on trial in New York over Eagles’ Hotel California manuscript | Eagles
In the mid-1970s, the Eagles were working on a spooky, cryptic new song.On a lined yellow pad, Don Henley, with input from his band co-founder Glenn Frey, jotted thoughts about “a dark desert highway” and “a lovely place” with a luxurious surface and ominous undertones. And something on ice, perhaps caviar or Taittinger – or pink Champagne?The song, Hotel California, became one of rock’s most indelible singles. And nearly 50 years later, those handwritten pages of lyrics-in-the-making have become the centre of an unusual…