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Eagles: “Hotel California” at 50

Eagles - Hotel California

Released: 1976

A Malibu demo nicknamed ‘Mexican Reggae,’ a guitar solo relearned over a phone line, and Black Sabbath bleeding through the studio wall: how the Eagles made Hotel California.

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Black Sabbath: "Paranoid" at 56

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Released: 1970

Short a song for their second album, Black Sabbath wrote the title track in twenty-five minutes to fill the runtime — and accidentally invented heavy metal's commercial breakthrough.