“The Last Resort” by The Eagles

Don Henley and Glenn Frey wrote "The Last Resort" for 1976's Hotel California, and it's the album's sorrowful look at paradise getting bought up and used up: commerce and industry moving in on every beautiful place until there's nothing left to ruin. Henley sings lead, Frey's piano and acoustic guitar carry the slow tide of it, Don Felder's pedal steel sighs underneath, and Bill Szymczyk produced and mixed.

It later rode along as the B-side of "Life in the Fast Lane" in 1977. In a 1978 interview Henley still counted it among his favorites, saying the environment mattered more to him than songs about drugs, love affairs or excess, and that same concern would eventually pull him into politics.

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