{"id":29454,"date":"2024-05-07T18:04:33","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T18:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-may-7-1977-the-eagles-went-to-1-with-hotel-california\/"},"modified":"2024-05-07T18:04:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T18:04:33","slug":"on-this-day-may-7-1977-the-eagles-went-to-1-with-hotel-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-may-7-1977-the-eagles-went-to-1-with-hotel-california\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, May 7, 1977: The Eagles went to #1 with \u201cHotel California&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-05-07\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, May 7, 1977\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The <strong>Eagles<\/strong> hit #1 on the <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> Hot 100 with \u201cHotel California,\u201d the title track from their fifth studio album, which also went to #1 on the <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> Album chart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The tune was the band\u2019s fourth #1 single, following \u201cBest of My Love,\u201d \u201cOne of These Nights\u201d and \u201cNew Kid In Town,\u201d the last of which also appeared on <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Hotel California<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The six-and-a-half-minute song, which features a two minute and 12 second guitar solo at the end, went on to be one of the band\u2019s signature tunes and is often played live during their shows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cHotel California\u201d won Record of the Year at the Grammys and has been certified three-times Platinum by the RIAA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, May 7, 1977\u2026 The Eagles hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with \u201cHotel California,\u201d the title track from their fifth studio album, which also went to #1 on the Billboard Album chart. The tune was the band\u2019s fourth #1 single, following \u201cBest of My Love,\u201d \u201cOne<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-may-7-1977-the-eagles-went-to-1-with-hotel-california\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}