Eagles’ Don Henley tells court he never gave away Hotel California lyrics

I always knew those lyrics were my property,' says rock band's co-founder at trial of three collectibles experts in New York

The lyrics to Hotel California and other classic Eagles songs should never have ended up at auction, Don Henley told a court on Wednesday.

I always knew those lyrics were my property. I never gifted them or gave them to anybody to keep or sell," the Eagles co-founder said on the last of three days of testimony at the trial of three collectibles experts charged with a scheme to peddle roughly 100 handwritten pages of the lyrics.