The Eagles had great success with their album 'Hotel California', which featured timeless hits like "Victim Of Love" and "Life In The Fast Lane".
This track was a collab between Don Henley, Don Frey, and Joe Walsh which explored the gritty side of L.A. and ironically, it was a massive hit there.
Despite its popularity, Frey saw the song as a criticism of the exaggerated behavior of the rich, showing a deeper dissatisfaction.
During the making of this song, the tension between the band became more evident as the writer of the song, Don Felder was sidelined without his knowledge.
Eagles’ manager Irving Azoff took Felder for a pleasant, innocent-seeming dinner but he had different intentions of replacing Felder’s vocal with Don Henley’s for this track.
Felder felt very let down by this action. He described the incident as "A bitter pill to swallow," recognizing Henley's voice, but feeling a sense of loss.
Felder's frustration with the vocal switch and the band's increasing tensions became a turning point in the band's unity, leading to their eventual breakup in 1980.
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