The lyrics for the Eagles’ album Hotel California were written by Don Henley and Glenn Frey on five pads of note paper in the mid-Seventies.
The notes have since been passed on to a writer, a bookseller, two dealers in rock’n’roll memorabilia and finally to Manhattan prosecutors, who treated them as stolen property and lodged a criminal case that collapsed.
Now Henley, 76, has filed a lawsuit for the notes’ return. His claim, filed against the collectors Edward Kosinski and Craig Inciardi, maintains that the lyric sheets were stolen. He has asked a court to declare him the lawful owner of the note paper. Frey died in 2016.
Don Henley at a New York court in February
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Inciardi, a curator of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and Kosinski, the founder of a
