The Eagles’ 1976 rock song “The Last Resort,” with a running time of more than seven minutes, stands as one of the band’s most ambitious recordings, continuing to resonate with a new wave of listeners nearly five decades after its release.
Released as an album track on the critically acclaimed Hotel California, the song did not reach the same chart heights as the Eagles’ biggest hits, including “Hotel California,” “Best Of My Love,” “One Of These Nights,” “New Kid In Town” and “Heartache Tonight,” and did not debut on the Billboard chart.
However, despite being an album track, one factor that has helped “The Last Resort” remain popular is its deeply thought-provoking message.
Written by the Eagles’ co-founders Don Henley and Glenn Frey, the song explores the pursuit of land and westward development, as well as their impact on Native American communities and the environment.
The Eagles members Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Joe Walsh, and Don Felder.Fotos International/Getty Images
According to a 1978 interview with Rolling Stone, the musician described “The Last Resort” as one of his favorite songs because of its message about the environment.
“That’s because I care more about the environment than about writing songs about drugs or love affairs or excesses of any kind,” Henley explained, via Songfacts. “The gist of the song was that when we find something good, we destroy it by our presence – by the very fact that man is the only animal on earth that is capable of destroying his environment. The environment is the reason I got into politics: to try to do something about what I saw as the complete destruction of most of the resources that we have left. We have mortgaged our future for gain and greed.”
This was echoed by the late Eagles member Glenn Frey, who noted in an interview that the band was also involved in anti-nuclear benefit concerts at the time.
“It seemed the perfect way to wrap up all of the different topics we had explored on the Hotel California album,” he explained, per Far Out Magazine.
From its meaningful lyrics to its distinction as the longest track on the Hotel California album, “The Last Resort” remains a memorable Eagles classic, earning a place among the Best Eagles Songs featured in Rolling Stone’s 40 Greatest Eagles Songs and Ultimate Classic Rock’s Eagles Album Closing Songs Ranked Worst to Best.
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