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Bicoastal Bacchanalia: The Eagles and The East Coast

By Wayne Robins, eMusic Contributor

Hotel California, the Eagles '1976 album, has sold more than 16 million copies. But beyond its place as one of the best-selling non-greatest-hits albums ever lies its once-controversial cultural significance: It was a seriously disputed piece of evidence in one of the great culture wars of the 1970s. That battle was not between red state and blue state, liberal or conservative, anti-abortion or pro-choice. It was the culture war between New York and Los Angeles. A… more »