Welcome to the 'Hotel California' case: The trial over handwritten lyrics to an Eagles classic
NEW YORK (AP) — In the mid-1970s, the Eagles were working on a spooky, cryptic new song. , 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 a half-century later, those handwritten pages of lyrics-in-the-making have become the center of an unusual criminal trial set to open Wednesday./ Rare-book dealer Glenn Horowitz, ...
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