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| "Hotel Yorba" | ||||
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| Single by the White Stripes | ||||
| from the album White Blood Cells | ||||
| B-side | "Rated X" | |||
| Released | November 12, 2001[1] | |||
| Recorded | May 2001[2][3] | |||
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| Length | 2:10 | |||
| Label | XL | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Jack White, Meg White | |||
| Producer(s) | Jack White | |||
| The White Stripes singles chronology | ||||
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| Music video | ||||
| "Hotel Yorba" on YouTube | ||||
"Hotel Yorba" is the lead single from White Blood Cells, by American garage rock band the White Stripes. It was released on November 12, 2001.
Built in 1926, the Hotel Yorba is a former hotel in southwest Detroit that can be seen along I-75 near the Ambassador Bridge to Canada. The single version of the song was recorded in room 206 of the building which is now used as government subsidized housing.[12] Jack says that, as a child, he heard a rumor that the Beatles had stayed there—a rumor that, although false, he loved.[13]
The White Stripes shot much of the song's music video outside the hotel, but were denied permission to film inside; it's rumored the duo is banned for life from the hotel.[14]
The song was used for a deleted scene in the 2002 movie 28 Days Later. The scene does not appear on the DVD, while the song itself is featured on the soundtrack CD released by XL Records.
The single was reissued on opaque red vinyl for Black Friday Record Store Day in 2012 by Third Man Records and later released on standard black vinyl.
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- ^ Tom Maginnis. "Hotel Yorba - The White Stripes | Song Info". AllMusic. Retrieved January 18, 2017.
- ^ Eakin, Marah (May 5, 2014). ""Hotel Yorba" is a life-affirming garage rock classic · Hear This · The A.V. Club". Avclub.com. Retrieved January 18, 2017.
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- ^ "Hotel Yorba by The White Stripes | Song Stories | Rolling Stone". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on July 26, 2014. Retrieved June 7, 2021.