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  • Death for Sale at the Chelsea Hotel

    Lost our lease!  Everything must go!  Stanley was famous for renting the room where Madonna shot her Sex book to Material Girl-worshiping hipsters with stars in their eyes.  Lately, however, sex alone has not been paying the bills.  In response, general manager Arnold Tamasar has revealed a new marketing strategy: Celebrity Death Tourism.  (And maybe…

  • The Conspiracy of Beards: A Leonard Cohen Cover Band

    The Conspiracy Of Beards, a men's choir from San Francisco who sing the songs of Leonard Cohen, sing "Chelsea Hotel #2" on the PATH train from New Jersey to New York, until the conductor orders the videographer to put the camera away.

  • Jobraith: One of Many Former Chelsea Hotel Rooftop Rockers

    Performing on the NBC show Midnight Special in 1974 during the peak of his career.

  • Rapper A.B.S. Stops by the Chelsea Hotel

    So what's up with this video ABS?  Since when does the Chelsea Hotel play second fiddle to the Eiffel Tower in a rap music video? 

  • Melanie Fiona Will Keep You Up All Night

    Here's the end result of that video shoot a few months back where the crew took over the west wing of the 7th and 8th floors and filmed until 3:30 in the morning on a Sunday.  What do you think?  Was it worth losing a night's sleep over?   You be the judge. Melanie Fiona – Give It…

  • Come Back to the Chelsea Ryan! We’re Not In New York!

    So, former Chelsea Hotel resident Ryan Adams has left New York because the New York Times was mean to him.  Apparently they criticized one of his songs — imagine that — and said he needed to self- edit a little better.  Well, don't we all.  But how will moving to LA help?  Can't the NYT…

  • Jaz Jericho Continues to Support Stanley Bard in Words and Music

    It's been a whole year since Adam Rushfield lost his battle to stay at the Chelsea.  He recently wrote to let us know that the Chelsea is still in his heart and in his music.  Late last week, Jaz attended the Miami opening of "Chelsea Hotel on the Rocks," where he got to hang out with Stanley Bard,…

  • Roll Your Eyes All You Like, Soon The Bards Will Return As Will The Mighty Stef

    It must be getting close to St. Patricks Day, as we met these Irish rockers in the lobby over the weekend.  Here's what they had to say about their stay at the Chelsea. Hey Ed, Ciaran Here ( I met you at the Chelsea At the Weekend ) We were over for the Mighty Stef…

  • Who Killed Nancy? Did Anyone Bother Asking Stanley?

    According to this new documentary, Who Killed Nancy? by Alan G. Parker, neither Sid Vicious nor Rockets Redglare was the killer of the nauseating one.  Instead, Parker fingers a shadowy blond-haired Brit from the 6th floor of the Chelsea Hotel, known only as “Michael.”  Who is this Michael, and what has become of him?  He could…

  • Bob Dylan’s Room Desecrated by Corporate Vandals

    In case anyone wondered what we were talking about in our previous post about the Chelsea Hotel management falsifying construction permits, this should clarify matters. The pictures below were taken on Tuesday, after construction began in Bob Dylan's old room at the Chelsea Hotel (#211), where he lived in the 60s, writing "Sad Eyed Lady of…