Living with Legends
Hotel Chelsea Blog
Category: Rock & Roll
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Earlier this week, Ryan Adams and Patti Smith were among the singers who paid tribute to Bob Dylan at Avery Fisher Hall. According to Billboard Magazine, "… the night really belonged to two artists: Natalie Merchant, with Philip Glass on piano, gave an exceedingly haunting reading of "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" that left…
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The Blog-Of-Horror continues to roll on. Check out Luke Joerger’s wildly popular music video for Gnarls Barkley — Who Cares?
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The Chelsea has a reputation as being a welcoming haven for spirits–of both the living and the dead variety. We asked longtime resident Tim Sullivan what he knew about the ghosts who inhabit the Chelsea. Tim is a big man, with a gray tuft of beard and…
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Lisa Tharpe, a neighbor who lives down the hall, and I decided to head down to the West Village to Sweet Rhythm to catch long-time Chelsea Hotel resident Sathima Bea Benjamin’s 70th birthday concert. And what a birthday party is was! (Learn more about Sathima at her website) Sweet Rhythm is not your typical down…
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Our guy in Australia has come through with this fabulous footage of Jobriath tickling the ivories and talking about the Chelsea’s creative spirit. Jobriath is credited as being the first mass-marketed glam rock star, and the first to be openly gay. This clip is from Nigel Finch’s 1981 BBC documentary. Jobriath spent his last days…
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It lives forever on youtube. As usual, Nancy demands the impossible, "Oh Sid, please just wake up and talk intelligently."
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It’s getting ridiculous to see the extent these fuddy-duddy hotels will go to show they’re rock-and-roll, now that old rockers have money to spend. Here’s an article about a really rockin’ hotel in Des Moines, Iowa, of all places. They have a list of all these over-the-hill rockers like Ozzy and Jon Bon Jovi and…
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This weekend’s Saturday Night Live featured a parody of "New York Stories," with Fred Armisen and Amy Poehler playing Lou Reed and Patti Smith, respectively. CBGBs was full of poets, losers, junkies and transvestites, and if you were lucky you might see Dee Dee eat 27 hotdogs. It was just like the Chelsea, except we’re…
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An alternate video for Moby’s new single with Debbie Harry, “New York, New York” starring celebutante extraordinaire Rev Jen Junior, directed by Saint Reverend Jen, who also shot and edited the film. According to Reverend Jen, to make the video extra special, they pretended that Jen Junior lives here at the Chelsea. We wish that…
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The video is only 3 minutes and it’s worth the wait to hear the review of Les Paul’s recent performance. Plus, it looks like the record company managed to score a pretty nice room.
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