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The narrator, driving at night on the desert, grows tired and stops at a hotel. Over the catchy result, Don Henley sings the song's nightmarish lyrics. It sounds as if, prior to composing the song, the members of the Eagles listened closely to Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here and Bob Marley & the Wailers' Rastaman Vibration, both recent hit albums, and combined elements from each. As the leadoff track, the title song was a proper introduction to an album that would contain other material in the same vein, such as "Life in the Fast Lane" and "Wasted Time." The song is built on a modified reggae beat that is not quite as syncopated as conventional reggae, with a distinctive guitar riff that recalls some of David Gilmour's favorite licks. Their songs tended to be both lascivious and prudish, detailing excesses and then disapproving of them, and the tunes that comprised Hotel California were no exception. Like much of the Eagles' output, Hotel California was an implicitly autobiographical album of songs about the group's rock & roll lifestyle. It also featured one of the more mysterious lyrics of a popular song in the 1970s. "Hotel California" was the title track of the Eagles' most successful regular album (though second overall to the astronomical sales of Eagles/Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975) and a chart-topping hit in its own right.