Living with Legends
Hotel Chelsea Blog
Category: Rock & Roll
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Leonard Cohen performs "Famous Blue Raincoat" in Munich, Germany in 1979.
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Songs from that supposedly rare Velvet Underground & Nico acetate which was for sale on E-Bay a few months back are now available on the internet. The songs from the acetate are completely different takes from the officially released album, The Velvet Underground & Nico
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The best stuff always comes to us from our readers, and so this week we’re emptying out our inbox. Check out this invite to a BBQ on the roof in 1982, sent to us by Michael Fellows. The no doubt swinging soire was hosted by none other than Jobriath. Jobriath, who as all good Chelseaites…
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The elevator may be making a few mysterious stops on the first floor today! And, perhaps this explains why the guy in the room next to me looks like Sid Vicious. RIP Sid Vicious 1957 – 1979 SID & NANCY CABLE ACCESS TV CALL-IN SHOW. 9/18/1978 PART ONE With STIV BATORS, and CYNTHIA. Shot down…
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Lisa Gruenberger performs her original work, "I’ll Never Sleep in the Chelsea Hotel," in honor of Patti Smith at her 60th birthday bash, Bowery Poetry Club, NYC, 12/28/06.
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Guitar World recently compiled a list of the top 100 guitar solos and CityRag blog pulled together videos of the top 20. Jimi Hendrix had the most solos on the top 20 list, with three. Here they are. And if that’s not impressive enough for you, Beverage Concepts has released a new drink called The…
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Kim Wilde, never heard of her, but if she stayed at the Chelsea she must be awesome. Here she is singing her heart out at the Chelsea Hotel in 1995.
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It’s a good month for music fans and/or fans of scratchy old 8-tracks. First, we have a 1970 recording of the Welsh national anthem, “Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau,” that sounds like the screeching of nine or ten cats with their tails tied together. This, the Welsh people would have us believe, is one of the…
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Craig McDean’s intimate film of supermodel Karen Elson and former bassist with The Smashin Pumpkins and Hole, Melissa Auf der Maur, performing SHOWstudio’s new singing cover, Danzig’s ‘Devil’s Plaything’, at the Chelsea Hotel in New York.
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In case you missed the Letterman show earlier this week!
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