<P> The following album, Hotel California, released on December 8, 1976, was the band's fifth studio album and the first to feature Walsh . The album took a year and a half to complete, a process which, along with touring, drained the band . The album's first single, "New Kid in Town," became the Eagles' third number - one single . </P> <P> The second single was the title track, which topped the charts in May 1977 and became the Eagles' signature song . It features Henley on lead vocals, with a guitar duet performed by Felder and Walsh . The song was written by Felder, Henley, and Frey, with Felder writing all the music . The mysterious lyrics have been interpreted in many ways, some of them controversial . Rumors even started in certain quarters that the song was about Satanism . The rumor was dismissed by the band and later by Henley in the documentary film History of the Eagles . Henley told 60 Minutes in 2007 that "it's basically a song about the dark underbelly of the American Dream and about excess in America, which was something we knew about ." </P> <P> With its hard rock sound, "Life in the Fast Lane" was also a major success that established Walsh's position in the band . The third and final single from Hotel California, it reached number 11 on the charts . The ballad "Wasted Time" closes the first side of the album, while an instrumental reprise of it opens the second side . The album concludes with "The Last Resort," a song that Frey once referred to as "Henley's opus," but which Henley described as "fairly pedestrian" and "never fully realized, musically speaking ." </P> <P> The run - out groove on side two has the words "V.O.L. Is Five - Piece Live" etched into the vinyl, which means that the instrumental track for the song "Victim of Love" was recorded live in the studio, with no overdubs . Henley confirms this in the liner notes of The Very Best Of . However, the song was a point of contention between Don Felder and the rest of the band . In the 2013 documentary, Felder claimed that he had been promised the lead vocal on "Victim of Love," for which he had written most of the music . After many unproductive attempts to record Felder's vocal, band manager Irving Azoff was delegated to take Felder out for a meal, removing him from the mix while Don Henley overdubbed his lead vocal . Hotel California appeared at number 37 on Rolling Stone's list of the best albums of all time, and is the band's best - selling studio album, with more than 17 million copies sold in the U.S. alone and more than 32 million copies worldwide . </P>

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