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Bring your alibis: battle over Eagles’ Hotel California lyrics goes to court
Three men accused of conspiracy over possession of handwritten lyrics to songs from hit 70s album stand trial in New York
The trial of three men accused of a conspiracy involving the possession of the original handwritten lyrics for the Eagles’ smash hit Hotel California has unfolded with the band’s longtime manager describing a long effort to recover the work – longer even than the track’s epic guitar solos. Irving Azoff, manager of the American rock band that shot to stardom in the 1970s, told a court in Manhattan on Wednesday that the group had tried to recover roughly 100 pages of allegedly stolen song lyrics from the Hotel California album written by the Eagles co-founders Don Henley and Glenn Frey. “Sanders is a major respected literary figure who served as the Eagles’ authorized biographer, of course they readily provided him with documents,” Horowitz’s defense attorney Jonathan Bach said.
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