"Hotel California is six minutes, the intro is a minute long, it stops in the middle with no drums, and you've got a two-minute guitar solo at the end. It's the absolute wrong format for a single" – Don Felder on the story of an Eagles classic

The Eagles Hotel California.

Back in 2012, MusicRadar sat down with former Eagles guitarist Don Felder to discuss his then-new album, Road To Forever, which was his first solo record since 1983's Airborne. But writer Joe Bosso also took the opportunity for an in-depth conversation about Felder's greatest writing credit: Hotel California.

The title track to the Eagles' landmark 1976 album, the track is, quite simply, iconic. Released as a single in February 1977, it topped the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in May of that year and went on to sell over one million copies. (In 2009, the track received the Platinum Digital Sales Award by the RIAA, representing sales of over one million downloads.)