A number of rumors arose as to the meaning of the album cover. The hotel of the title was linked to either a mental hospital, or the headquarters of Anton LaVey's Church of Satan. His headquarters was a converted Hotel on California street, leading to speculation of a possible link to the same titled song on the album. Some people see a connection between the lyrics in the song and the Hotel on California street. A shadowy figure on a balcony in an inner cover photograph was speculated to be LaVey or Satan, another figure in the same photograph was supposedly a propped up corpse, and the "Beast" mentioned in the lyrics of the title song was identified with Satan or Aleister Crowley. None of these views have ever been admitted to, so the debate continues.
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