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The Hotel Chelsea is a well-known residence for artists, musicians and writers in the neighborhood of Chelsea in Manhattan
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, New York City
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. It is located at 222 West 23rd Street
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, between Seventh
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 and Eighth Avenues
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. Built in 1883, the hotel
Hotel

----A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. The provision of basic accommodation, in times past, consisting only of a room with a bed, a cupboard, a small table and a washstand has largely been replaced by rooms with modern facilities, including Bathroom#Types of bathroomss and air conditioning or clima...
 welcomes guests, but is primarily known for its long-term residents, past and present.

hotel has always been a center of artistic and bohemian activity and it houses artwork created by many of the artists who have visited.






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The Hotel Chelsea is a well-known residence for artists, musicians and writers in the neighborhood of Chelsea in Manhattan
Manhattan

Manhattan is one of the five borough of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.With a United States Census of 1,620,867 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles , Manhattan, coextensive with New York County, is the most population density county in the United States, w...
, New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
. It is located at 222 West 23rd Street
23rd Street (Manhattan)

23rd Street is a large thoroughfare across the New York City borough of Manhattan. It runs from river to river across Manhattan, carrying two-way traffic....
, between Seventh
Seventh Avenue (Manhattan)

Seventh Avenue/Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard is a thoroughfare on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It carries traffic downtown south of Central Park but both ways north of it....
 and Eighth Avenues
Eighth Avenue (Manhattan)

File:8th Ave, Manhattan.jpgEighth Avenue is a north-south avenue on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City, carrying northbound traffic. It is the longest straight road on Manhattan....
. Built in 1883, the hotel
Hotel

----A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. The provision of basic accommodation, in times past, consisting only of a room with a bed, a cupboard, a small table and a washstand has largely been replaced by rooms with modern facilities, including Bathroom#Types of bathroomss and air conditioning or clima...
 welcomes guests, but is primarily known for its long-term residents, past and present.

History

The hotel has always been a center of artistic and bohemian activity and it houses artwork created by many of the artists who have visited. The hotel was the first building to be listed by New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 as a cultural preservation site and historic building of note.

The twelve-story red-brick building that now houses the Hotel Chelsea was built in 1883, and opened in 1884 as one of the city's first private apartment cooperative
Housing cooperative

A housing cooperative is a legal entity?usually a corporation?that owns real estate, consisting of one or more residential buildings. Each shareholder in the legal entity is granted the right to occupy one housing unit, sometimes subject to an occupancy agreement, which is similar to a lease....
s. At the time Chelsea, and particularly the street on which the hotel was located, was the center of New York's Theater District. However, within a few years the combination of economic worries and the relocation of the theaters bankrupted the Chelsea cooperative. In 1905, the building was purchased and opened as a hotel. Since 1946, the hotel has been managed by the Bard family, and until recently was run by 72-year-old Stanley Bard who took over as managing director from his father in 1955. On June 18, 2007, the hotel's board of directors ousted Bard as the hotel's manager. Marlene Krauss, a doctor who is the chief executive of KBL Healthcare Ventures, and David Elder, one of the heirs of an original owner who lives in California, replaced Stanley Bard with management company BD Hotels NY, L.L.C., who have since been terminated. Residents are fighting to return the Bards, as managers and majority shareholders, to the Chelsea Hotel and have mounted a campaign of banners, art pranks and other protests toward this end.

Owing to its long list of famous guests and residents, the hotel has an ornate history, both as a birth place of creative modern art and punctuated by tragedy catching the public eye. Sir Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke

Sri Lankabhimanya Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, Order of the British Empire was a British people science fiction author, inventor, and Futurology, most famous for the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey , written in collaboration with director Stanley Kubrick, a collaboration which also produced the 2001: A Space Odyssey ; and as a host and comment...
 wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey (novel)

2001: A Space Odyssey is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke. It was developed concurrently with Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and published after the release of the film....
 while staying at the Chelsea, and poets Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg

Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an United States poet. Ginsberg is best known for the poem "Howl" , celebrating his friends who were members of the Beat Generation and attacking what he saw as the destructive forces of materialism and conformity in the United States....
, Gregory Corso
Gregory Corso

Gregory Nunzio Corso was an United States poet, youngest of the inner circle of Beat Generation writers ....
 and Richard and Rebecca Eller chose it as a place for philosophical and intellectual exchange. It is also known as the place where the writer Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas

Dylan Marlais Thomas was a Welsh people poet who wrote exclusively in English. In addition to poetry, he wrote short stories and scripts for film and radio, which he often performed himself....
 was staying when he died of alcohol poisoning on November 4, 1953, and where Nancy Spungen
Nancy Spungen

Nancy Laura Spungen was the United States girlfriend of Sex Pistols bassist, Sid Vicious. Spungen has been the subject of controversy among music historians and fans of the Sex Pistols....
, girlfriend of Sid Vicious
Sid Vicious

Sid Vicious was an England musician best known as the former bassist of the influential punk rock group Sex Pistols....
 of the Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols

The Sex Pistols are an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. The band are widely credited with initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and creating the first generation gap within rock and roll....
, was found stabbed to death on October 12, 1978.

People who live/have lived at Chelsea


Writers and thinkers

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During its lifetime Hotel Chelsea has provided a home to many great writer
Writer

A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, as well as those who have written in many different forms....
s and thinker
Thinker

Thinker may refer to:* an intellectual - the one who tries to use his or her intelligence to work, study, reflect, speculate on, or ask and answer questions with regard to a variety of different ideas....
s including Mark Twain
Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an United Statesmerican author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer....
, O. Henry
O. Henry

O. Henry was the pen name of United States writer William Sydney Porter . O. Henry short stories are known for wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings....
, Herbert Huncke
Herbert Huncke

Herbert Huncke was a sub-culture icon, writer, homosexuality pioneer , drug addict, criminal, and participant in various American social movements of the 20th century....
, Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas

Dylan Marlais Thomas was a Welsh people poet who wrote exclusively in English. In addition to poetry, he wrote short stories and scripts for film and radio, which he often performed himself....
, Dale Beran, Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke

Sri Lankabhimanya Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, Order of the British Empire was a British people science fiction author, inventor, and Futurology, most famous for the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey , written in collaboration with director Stanley Kubrick, a collaboration which also produced the 2001: A Space Odyssey ; and as a host and comment...
, William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs

William Seward Burroughs II was an United States novelist, essayist, social critic, Painting and spoken word performer.Much of Burroughs's work is semi-autobiographical, drawn from his experiences as an opiate addict, a condition that marked the last fifty years of his life....
, Gregory Corso
Gregory Corso

Gregory Nunzio Corso was an United States poet, youngest of the inner circle of Beat Generation writers ....
, Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen

Leonard Norman Cohen, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec is a Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963....
, John Patrick Kennedy, Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller was an United States playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in Theater in the United States and film for almost 100 years, writing a wide variety of dramas, including celebrated Play such as The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, All My Sons, and Death of a Salesman, which are studied and performed w...
, Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp

Quentin Crisp , born Denis Charles Pratt, was an England writer and raconteur. He became a gay icon in the 1970s after publication of his memoir, The Naked Civil Servant, brought to the attention of the general public his defiant exhibitionism and longstanding refusal to remain in the closet....
, Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal is an United States novelist, screenwriter, playwright, essayist, short story writer and politician. Early in his career he wrote the ground-breaking The City and the Pillar , which outraged mainstream critics as one of the first major American novels to feature unambiguous homosexuality....
, Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams was an American playwright who received many of the top theatrical awards. He moved to New Orleans in 1939 and changed his name to "Tennessee", the state of his father's birth....
, Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg

Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an United States poet. Ginsberg is best known for the poem "Howl" , celebrating his friends who were members of the Beat Generation and attacking what he saw as the destructive forces of materialism and conformity in the United States....
, Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac was an American author, poet and Painting. Alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, he is considered a pioneer of the Beat Generation....
 (who wrote On the Road
On the Road

On the Road is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, written in April 1951, and published by Viking Press in 1957 in literature. It is a largely Autobiography work that was based on the spontaneous road trips of Kerouac and his friends across mid-century America....
 here), Robert Hunter
Robert Hunter (lyricist)

Robert C. Hunter is an United States lyricist, singer songwriter, and poet, best known for his association with Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead....
, Jack Gantos
Jack Gantos

Jack Gantos is an American author of Children's literature renowned for his portrayal of fictional Joey Pigza, a boy with Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder....
, Brendan Behan
Brendan Behan

Brendan Francis Behan was an Irish literature poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright who wrote in both Irish and English. He was also a committed Irish Republican and a volunteer in the Irish Republican Army ....
, Richard Collins
Richard Collins

Richard Collins is a Canadian actor who plays the character of 'Philadelphia "Phil" Collins' on the television show Trailer Park Boys....
, Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir was a France author and philosopher. She wrote novels, monographs on philosophy, politics, and social issues, essays, biographies, and an autobiography in several volumes....
, Robert Oppenheimer
Robert Oppenheimer

Julius Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physics and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for his role as the scientific director of the Manhattan Project: the World War II effort to develop the first nuclear weapons at the secret Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico....
, Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre , commonly known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre , was a French existentialism philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary criticism....
, Bill Landis
Bill Landis

William Henry Landis is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1963 in baseball through 1969 in baseball for the Oakland Athletics and Boston Red Sox ....
, Michelle Clifford, Thomas Wolfe
Thomas Wolfe

Thomas Clayton Wolfe was an acclaimed American novelist of the early 20th century.Wolfe wrote four lengthy novels, plus many short story, dramatic works and novel fragments....
, Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski

Henry Charles Bukowski , was a German American poet, novelist and short story. Bukowski's writing was heavily influenced by the geography and atmosphere of his home city of Los Angeles, California, and is marked by an emphasis on the ordinary lives of marginalized poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, the dru...
, Raymond Kennedy
Raymond Kennedy

Raymond Kennedy was an American novelist. He was born in Wilbraham, Massachusetts to James Patrick Kennedy and Orise Belanger and was the youngest of three brothers....
, Matthew Richardson
Matthew Richardson

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, Stephen Mooney, Jan Cremer, and René Ricard
René Ricard

Rene Ricard is an American poet.Ricard grew up in Acushnet, Massachusetts. As a young teenager he ran away to Boston and assimilated into the literary scene of the city....
. Charles R. Jackson
Charles R. Jackson

Charles R. Jackson, Charles Reginald Jackson, was an United States author, best known for his 1944 in literature novel, The Lost Weekend ....
, author of The Lost Weekend
The Lost Weekend (novel)

The Lost Weekend is a novel by Charles R. Jackson that was published by Farrar & Rinehart in 1944. It was produced as a The Lost Weekend in 1945, directed by Billy Wilder and starring Ray Milland as the protagonist, Don Birnam....
, committed suicide
Suicide

Suicide is the intentional taking of one's own life. Many dictionaries also note the metaphorical sense of "willful destruction of one's self-interest"....
 in his room at the Chelsea on September 21, 1968.

Actors and film directors

The hotel has been a home to actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
s and film directors such as Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick was an influential American-British filmmaker, screenwriter, Film producer and photographer. He directed a number of highly acclaimed and often controversial films....
, Shirley Clarke
Shirley Clarke

Shirley Clarke was a major American independent filmmaker.Clarke was born Shirley Brimberg. Her father was a Poland immigrant who made his fortune in manufacturing and her mother was the daughter of a multimillionaire Jewish manufacturer and inventor....
, Cyndi Coyne, Mitch Hedberg
Mitch Hedberg

Mitchell Lee Hedberg was an American stand-up comedy known for his surreal humour and unconventional comedic delivery. Hedberg's comedy typically featured short, sometimes One-liner joke jokes, and observational comedy, mixed with absurd and elements as well as Non sequitur ....
, Dave Hill
Dave Hill (comedian)

Dave Hill is a comedian, writer, musician and actor. He hosts the stage show The Dave Hill Explosion at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York and Hollywood and currently stars in the television show The King of Miami on the MOJO HD network....
, Miloš Forman
Miloš Forman

Jan Tom? Forman , better known as Milo? Forman , is a Czech-American film director, screenwriter, actor and professor. Two of his films, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus are among the most celebrated in the History of Motion Picture....
, Lillie Langtry
Lillie Langtry

Lillie Langtry , born Emilie Charlotte Le Breton, was a highly successful United Kingdom actor born on the island of Jersey. A renowned beauty, she was nicknamed the "Jersey Lily" and had a number of prominent lovers, including the future King Edward VII of the United Kingdom....
, Ethan Hawke
Ethan Hawke

Ethan Green Hawke is an American actor, writer and film director. He landed his first feature role in the movie Explorers in 1985 opposite River Phoenix....
, Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper

Dennis Lee Hopper is an Academy Award-nominated United Statesn actor and filmmaker, known for playing psychotic and villain characters....
, Eddie Izzard
Eddie Izzard

Edward John "Eddie" Izzard is an Emmy Award-winning British stand-up comedy and dramatic actor. He is also known for his transvestitism. His comedy style is expressed in rambling, whimsical monologue and self-referential pantomime....
, Kevin O'Connor, Uma Thurman
Uma Thurman

Uma Karuna Thurman Hawke , better known as Uma Thurman, is an American actress. She performs predominantly in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from romantic comedy film and dramas to science fiction film and Action movie Thriller s....
, Elliot Gould, Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda

Jane Fonda is an United States actress, writer, political activism, former fashion model and Physical fitness guru. She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and Cat Ballou and, with interruptions, has appeared in films ever since....
, and Gaby Hoffmann
Gaby Hoffmann

Gabriella Mary Hoffmann is an American actor. Hoffmann?s mother, Viva , is an actress and writer and appeared in many of Andy Warhol's movies during the 1960s....
 and her mother, the Warhol film star Viva
Viva (Warhol superstar)

Viva is an United Statesn actress, writer and a former Warhol superstar....
 and Edie Sedgwick
Edie Sedgwick

Edith Minturn "Edie" Sedgwick was an United States actress, socialite, fashion model, and Heiress who starred in several of Andy Warhol's short films in the 1960s....
.

Musicians

Much of Hotel Chelsea's history has been colored by the musician
Musician

A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
s who have resided or visited there. Some of the most prominent names include The Grateful Dead, Tom Waits
Tom Waits

Thomas Alan Waits is an United Statesn singer-songwriter, composer and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of Bourbon whiskey, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorpo...
, Patti Smith
Patti Smith

Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith is an United States singer-songwriter, poet and artist who was a highly influential component of the punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses ....
, Virgil Thomson
Virgil Thomson

Virgil Thomson was an American composer and critic from Kansas City, Missouri. He was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound" in classical music....
, Dee Dee Ramone
Dee Dee Ramone

Dee Dee Ramone, born Douglas Glenn Colvin, was a Germany-United States songwriter and bassist, best remembered as a founding member of punk rock band The Ramones....
 of The Ramones, Henri Chopin
Henri Chopin

Henri Chopin was an avant-garde poet and musician.Henri Chopin was a little-known but key figure of the French avant-garde during the second half of the 20th century....
, John Cale
John Cale

John Davies Cale , better known as John Cale, is a Welsh people musician, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the rock & roll band The Velvet Underground....
, Édith Piaf
Édith Piaf

?dith Piaf was a France singer and cultural icon of partly algeria and Italy descent who "is almost universally regarded as France's greatest popular singer." Her singing reflected her life, with her specialty being ballads....
, Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell, Order of Canada is a Canada musician, songwriter, and Painting.Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Western Canada and then busking on the streets of Toronto....
, Marty Connolly, Bob Dylan, Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper

Alice Cooper is an American rock music singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, and boa constrictors, Cooper has drawn equally from horror movies, vaudeville, heavy metal music, and garage rock to create a theatrical brand of rock musi...
, Janis Joplin
Janis Joplin

Janis Lyn Joplin was an United States singer, songwriter, and music arranger, from Port Arthur, Texas. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a solo artist....
, Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter whose guitar playing continues to be a considerable influence on rock music....
, Sid Vicious
Sid Vicious

Sid Vicious was an England musician best known as the former bassist of the influential punk rock group Sex Pistols....
, The Distillers
The Distillers

The Distillers were an American punk rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1998. They released their first two albums on Hellcat Records/Epitaph Records before moving to Sire, part of the Warner Music Group....
, Richard Hell
Richard Hell

Richard Hell is an United States singer, songwriter, bass guitarist, and writer.Hell is probably best known as frontman for the early punk rock band Richard Hell & The Voidoids....
, glam rocker Jobriath
Jobriath

Jobriath was the stage name of Bruce Wayne Campbell , who was a glam rock singer from 1973 to 1974....
, Rufus Wainwright
Rufus Wainwright

Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright is a Grammy-nominated, Canadian-American singer-songwriter. He has recorded five albums of original music, several extended play, and numerous tracks included on Compilation album and film soundtracks....
, Abdullah Ibrahim
Abdullah Ibrahim

Abdullah Ibrahim , formerly known as Adolph Johannes Brand, and as Dollar Brand, is a South African pianist and composer. His music reflects many of the musical influences of his childhood in the multicultural port areas of Cape Town, ranging from traditional African songs to the gospel music of the AME Church and ragas, to more m...
/Sathima Bea Benjamin
Sathima Bea Benjamin

Sathima Bea Benjamin , is a South African vocalist and composer born in Johannesburg, raised in Cape Town, and now based in New York City....
, Indian musician Vasant Rai
Vasant Rai

Vasant Rai was one of world's most acclaimed performers of Indian music and virtuoso of the Indo/Persian/Afghani instrument Sarod....
, and Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen

Leonard Norman Cohen, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec is a Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963....
. More recently, artists such as Madonna
Madonna (entertainer)

Madonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance....
, Ryan Adams
Ryan Adams

David Ryan Adams is an American Alternative country/rock music singer-songwriter from Jacksonville, North Carolina. Raised by his mother and grandmother, Adams dropped out of school at age 16 and performed with several local bands before moving to Raleigh, North Carolina and forming the band Whiskeytown....
, jAz jERicho, The Libertines
The Libertines

The Libertines were an English rock music band. Formed in London in 1997 by frontmen Carl Bar?t and Pete Doherty , the band also included John Hassall and Gary Powell for most of its recording career....
, Melissa Auf der Maur
Melissa Auf der Maur

Melissa Auf der Maur is a Canada rock musician of France-Switzerland ancestry from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Her career has included 5 years as Bass guitar with the band Hole and she later toured with The Smashing Pumpkins for their 2000 tour....
, and Anthony Kiedis
Anthony Kiedis

Anthony Kiedis is an American musician and occasional actor best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. Kiedis spent his youth in Grand Rapids, Michigan with his mother before moving to Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, California at the age of eight to be with his father....
 have spent time at The Chelsea.

Visual artists

The hotel has featured and collected the work of the many visual artists
Visual arts

The visual arts are Art#Art forms that focus on the creation of works which are primarily visual in nature, such as drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, and filmmaking....
 who have passed through. Larry Rivers
Larry Rivers

Larry Rivers was a Jewish American artist, musician, filmmaker and occasional actor. Rivers resided and maintained studios in New York City, Southampton, New York on and Zihuatanejo, Mexico....
, Robert M. Lambert, Brett Whiteley
Brett Whiteley

Brett Whiteley, Order of Australia was an Australian artist. One of the best-known Australian painters of the 20th century, he is collected in most Australian galleries....
, Christo, Arman
Arman

Arman , was a France-born United States artist. Born Armand Pierre Fernandez in Nice, France, Arman is a painter who moved from using the objects as paintbrushes to using them as the painting itself....
, Richard Bernstein
Richard Bernstein

Richard Bernstein, , is an United States journalist, columnist and author. He currently writes the Letter from America column for The International Herald Tribune....
, Francesco Clemente
Francesco Clemente

File:'Water and wine', gouache on paper by Francesco Clemente 1981.jpgFrancesco Clemente is an Italy Painting. His work shows both surrealist and expressionist references....
, David Remfry, Philip Taaffe
Philip Taaffe

Philip Taaffe is an United States artistTaaffe was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, New Jersey and studied at the Cooper Union in New York, gaining a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1977....
, Michele Zalopany, Ralph Gibson
Ralph Gibson

Ralph Gibson is an American art photographer best known for his photographic books. His images often incorporate fragments with erotic and mysterious undertones, building narrative meaning through contextualization and surreal juxtaposition....
, Rene Shapshak, Robert Mapplethorpe
Robert Mapplethorpe

Robert Mapplethorpe was an United States photographer, known for his large-scale, highly stylized black and white portraits, photos of flowers and naked men....
, Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calder?n was a Mexico Painting, who has achieved great international popularity. She painted using vibrant colors in a style that was influenced by indigenous cultures of Mexico as well as by European influences that include realism , Symbolism , and Surrealism....
, Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera was born Diego Mar?a de la Concepci?n Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodr?guez in Guanajuato City....
, Robert Crumb
Robert Crumb

Robert Dennis Crumb , often credited simply as R. Crumb, is an United States artist and illustrator recognized for the distinctive style of his drawings and his critical, satirical, subversive view of the American mainstream....
, Jasper Johns
Jasper Johns

File:Jasper Johns's 'Map', 1961.jpgJasper Johns, Jr. is a contemporary American artist who works primarily in painting and printmaking. He is represented by the Matthew Marks Gallery....
, Claes Oldenburg
Claes Oldenburg

Claes Oldenburg is a sculpture, best known for his public art installations typically featuring very large replicas of everyday objects. Another theme in his work is soft sculpture versions of everyday objects....
, Vali Myers, Donald Baechler
Donald Baechler

Donald Baechler is an American artist. He studied at the St?delschule from 1978 to 1979. He has been exhibited as an artist since 1980 and currently lives in New York City....
, Herbert Gentry, Willem De Kooning
Willem de Kooning

Willem de Kooning was an abstract expressionist artist, born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.In the post-World War II era, de Kooning painted in a style that came to be referred to variously as Abstract expressionism, Action painting, and the New York School....
, John Dahlberg, Lynne Drexler
Lynne Mapp Drexler

Lynne Drexler was born in Newport News, Virginia in 1928. She began painting as a child, and later took art classes at the College of William and Mary....
 and Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson was a France photography considered to be the father of modern photojournalism, an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography....
 have all spent time at Hotel Chelsea. Painter & ethnomusicologist Harry Everett Smith
Harry Everett Smith

Harry Everett Smith was an United States archivist, ethnomusicology, student of anthropology, record collector, experimental filmmaking, fine art, bohemianism and mystic....
 lived and died at the Chelsea in Room 328. The painter Alphaeus Cole lived there for 35 years until his death in 1988 at age 112, America's oldest living person. Bohemian abstract and Pop art
Pop art

Pop art is a visual art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in UK and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of Fine Art since Pop removes the material from its context and isolates...
 painter Susan Olmetti creates paintings outside on the sidewalk during her frequent summer residencies at the hotel.

Fashion Designers

Charles James
Charles James

Charles James may refer to:* Charles James , former U.S. assistant attorney general* Charles James * Charles Holloway James, architect * Charles Tillinghast James , U.S....
: Amongst the ranks of the legendary couturiers of the 20th Century who influenced fashion in the 1940s and 50s -- a man also credited with being America's first couturier. In 1964 he moved into the Chelsea Hotel in New York. James died of pneumonia at the Chelsea Hotel in 1978.

Warhol Superstars

Room 412
Hotel Chelsea is often associated with the Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol

Andrew Warhola , more commonly known as Andy Warhol, was an United Statesn Painting, Printmaking, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the Art movement known as pop art....
 Superstars
Warhol superstar

The Warhol Superstars were a clique of New York City personalities promoted by Andy Warhol during the 1960s and early 1970s. The Superstars appeared in Warhol's artworks and accompanied him in his social life....
, as he directed The Chelsea Girls
Chelsea Girls

Chelsea Girls is a 1966 film directed by Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol. The film was Warhol's first major commercial success, and was shot at the Hotel Chelsea and various other locations in New York City....
 (1966), a film about his Factory
The Factory

The Factory was Andy Warhol's original New York City studio from 1962 to 1968, although his later studios were known as The Factory as well. The Factory was located on the fifth floor at 231 47th Street , in Midtown Manhattan....
 regulars and their lives at the hotel. Chelsea residents from the Warhol scene included Edie Sedgwick
Edie Sedgwick

Edith Minturn "Edie" Sedgwick was an United States actress, socialite, fashion model, and Heiress who starred in several of Andy Warhol's short films in the 1960s....
, Viva
Viva (Warhol superstar)

Viva is an United Statesn actress, writer and a former Warhol superstar....
, Larry Rivers
Larry Rivers

Larry Rivers was a Jewish American artist, musician, filmmaker and occasional actor. Rivers resided and maintained studios in New York City, Southampton, New York on and Zihuatanejo, Mexico....
, Ultra Violet, Mary Woronov
Mary Woronov

Mary Woronov is an American actress, well known for her roles in cult films; she has appeared in over 80 movies. She first made headlines as one of Andy Warhol's Warhol Superstar, and danced with The Velvet Underground in Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable....
, Holly Woodlawn
Holly Woodlawn

Holly Woodlawn is a transsexual and former Warhol superstar, who appeared in his movies Trash and Women in Revolt . Her life was summarized by Lou Reed in his song "Walk on the Wild Side ":...
, Andrea Feldman
Andrea Feldman

Andrea Feldman was an actress and a Warhol superstar. A native New York City, she starred in several of Warhol?s underground movies, such as Trash , before committing suicide in 1972....
, Nico
Nico

Christa P?ffgen was a German musician, Model , actress, and Warhol Superstar who is best known by her stage name Nico. She is renowned for both her tenure in The Velvet Underground and for her work as a solo artist....
, Paul America
Paul America

Paul Johnson , better known as Paul America, was a member of Andy Warhol's The Factory group who starred in one Warhol-directed film, My Hustler....
, and Brigid Berlin
Brigid Berlin

Brigid Berlin is an artist and former Warhol superstar....
.

Explorers

Ruth Harkness
Ruth Harkness

Ruth Elizabeth Harkness was an American fashion designer and socialite, who traveled to China in 1936 and brought back the first live giant panda to the United States - not in a cage, or on a leash, but wrapped in her arms....
, an adventuress/naturalist who brought the first live giant panda from China to the U.S. in the 1930s, stayed at the Chelsea Hotel after her return to the States.

Hotel Chelsea in popular culture


Films

The hotel featured in

  • Arena TV series Chelsea Hotel (1981) an edition of the popular BBC arts documentary series.
  • The Chelsea Girls
    Chelsea Girls

    Chelsea Girls is a 1966 film directed by Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol. The film was Warhol's first major commercial success, and was shot at the Hotel Chelsea and various other locations in New York City....
     (1966) by Andy Warhol
    Andy Warhol

    Andrew Warhola , more commonly known as Andy Warhol, was an United Statesn Painting, Printmaking, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the Art movement known as pop art....
    , in which the Superstars
    Warhol superstar

    The Warhol Superstars were a clique of New York City personalities promoted by Andy Warhol during the 1960s and early 1970s. The Superstars appeared in Warhol's artworks and accompanied him in his social life....
     have roles
  • Nine 1/2 Weeks (1986) by Adrian Lyne
    Adrian Lyne

    Adrian Lyne is an English filmmaker and film producer. He is best known for his films focusing on sexually charged characters, and sultry, eroticized atmospheres which he visually creates in his films by use of filming techniques such as making use of natural light and using a fog machine to create a soft focus....
  • Sid & Nancy (1986) by Alex Cox
    Alex Cox

    Alexander Cox is a United Kingdom film director and sometime actor, notable for his idiosyncratic style and approach to scripts. Cox has previously cited Luis Bu?uel and Akira Kurosawa as influences....
  • Léon: The Professional
    Léon (film)

    L?on is a French 1994 drama crime films film written and directed by France director Luc Besson. It stars Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, and a young Natalie Portman in her first starring role....
     (1994) by Luc Besson
    Luc Besson

    Luc Besson is a French film director, writer and film producer. He is the creator of EuropaCorp film company....
  • Midnight In Chelsea (1997) directed by Mark Pellington, a video
    Music video

    A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a pop music or rock music song with lyrics. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings....
     to a track
    Midnight in Chelsea

    "Midnight in Chelsea" is a single by American Rock singer Jon Bon Jovi, released in 1997. It is from the album Destination Anywhere. The song was Bon Jovi's highest-charting solo single in the United Kingdom, reaching #4 on the UK Singles Chart ....
     from the 1997 Jon Bon Jovi
    Jon Bon Jovi

    John Francis Bongiovi, Jr. , better known as Jon Bon Jovi, is an United States musician, songwriter and actor, best known as the lead singer and founder of Bon Jovi....
     solo album Destination Anywhere
    Destination Anywhere

    Destination Anywhere is Jon Bon Jovi's second solo album after his musical contribution to the film Young Guns II. The production is very different from the ones found in Bon Jovi albums, with Music loop, female backing vocals and Bon Jovi himself singing in a lower register in most of the songs....
  • Pie in the Sky the Brigid Berlin
    Brigid Berlin

    Brigid Berlin is an artist and former Warhol superstar....
     Story     (2002) features a reunion between former resident Brigid Berlin
    Brigid Berlin

    Brigid Berlin is an artist and former Warhol superstar....
     and the artist Richard Bernstein
    Richard Bernstein

    Richard Bernstein, , is an United States journalist, columnist and author. He currently writes the Letter from America column for The International Herald Tribune....
     at the Hotel.
  • The Interpreter
    The Interpreter

    The Interpreter is a 2005 in film thriller film starring Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, and Catherine Keener. It was the final film to be directed by Sydney Pollack....
     (2005)
  • Party Monster: The Shockumentary
    Party Monster: The Shockumentary

    Party Monster: The Shockumentary is a 1998 in film documentary film detailing the rise of the club kid phenomenon in New York City, the life of club kid and party promoter Michael Alig and Alig's murder of fellow club kid and drug dealer Angel Melendez....
     (1996) various people are mentioned to have lived in the hotel.
  • Chelsea Walls
    Chelsea Walls

    Chelsea Walls was directed by Ethan Hawke and released by Lions Gate Entertainment in April 2002 in film. It starred Kris Kristofferson, Uma Thurman, Rosario Dawson and others, original score by Wilco, and produced by Indigent Productions, Independent Film Channel and Killer Films....
     (2001) A movie about a new generation of artists living at the hotel.


Several survivors of the Titanic stayed for some time in this hotel as it is a short distance from Pier 54 where the Titanic was supposed to dock.

Much of an episode of the 1973 PBS reality television
Reality television

Reality television is a genre of television programming which presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors....
 series An American Family
An American Family

An American Family was an United States television documentary shot in 1971 and first aired in the United States on PBS in early 1973. The show was twelve episodes long, edited down from about 300 hours of footage, and chronicled the experiences of a nuclear family, the Loud family of Santa Barbara, California, during a period of time wh...
 was filmed at the Hotel Chelsea, as family member Lance Loud
Lance Loud

Alanson Russell "Lance" Loud was an openly homosexuality columnist. He is probably best known for his role in An American Family, a pioneer reality show about his family....
 was staying there at the time.

A version of the opera Aida
Aida

Aida an Arabic female name meaning "visitor" or "returning") is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, based on a scenario written by French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette ....
 was filmed there with live lions.

Music

The hotel is also featured in numerous songs, including:
  • "Sara" by Bob Dylan, which refers to "Staying up for days in the Chelsea Hotel, writing Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands for you".
  • "Chelsea Morning
    Chelsea Morning

    "Chelsea Morning" is a song written by Joni Mitchell. The two best known versions are arguably Mitchell's own recording of the song, which appeared on her 1969 album Clouds , and Judy Collins' recording, which she released as a Single during the summer of 1969....
    " by Joni Mitchell
    Joni Mitchell

    Joni Mitchell, Order of Canada is a Canada musician, songwriter, and Painting.Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Western Canada and then busking on the streets of Toronto....
     (Chelsea Clinton
    Chelsea Clinton

    Chelsea Victoria Clinton is the daughter and only child of former Arkansas Governor and President of the United States Bill Clinton and former United States Senator and current United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton....
     is named after the song and, by extension, the hotel)
  • "Troubled Notes from the Hotel Chelsea" by Joe Myers and Casebeer was recorded while the artist couple were living in the Chelsea prior to 9-11
  • "Sex with Sun-Ra (Part I - Saturnalia)" by Coil
    Coil (band)

    Coil were an English cross-genre, industrial music experimental music group formed in 1982 by John Balance—later credited as "Jhonn Balance"—and his partner Peter Christopherson, aka 'Sleazy'....
     (the song's non-sequitur final line)
  • "Chelsea Hotel" by Dan Bern
    Dan Bern

    Dan Bern is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, novelist and painter. His music is often compared to that of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Bruce Springsteen, Phil Ochs and Elvis Costello....
  • "Dear Abbey" by Kinky Friedman
    Kinky Friedman

    Richard S. "Kinky" Friedman is an American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician and former columnist for Texas Monthly who styles himself in the mold of popular :Category:American satirists Will Rogers and Mark Twain....
  • "White China" by Fever Marlene
    Fever Marlene

    Fever Marlene is a rock band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. Fever Marlene released their much buzzed about album titled, Civil War on Rev Pop Records....
     (the band wrote and recorded their entire second album over a four night stay in room 219)
  • "Chelsea Burns" and "Song to Alice" by Keren Ann
    Keren Ann

    Keren Ann Zeidel is a singer-songwriter based largely in Paris, New York City and Israel. She plays guitar, piano and clarinet, engineers and writes choir and musical arrangements....
  • "Chelsea Girls
    Chelsea Girl (album)

    Chelsea Girl is the debut solo album by Nico. It was released in October 1967 by Verve Records, also home to The Velvet Underground....
    " by Nico
    Nico

    Christa P?ffgen was a German musician, Model , actress, and Warhol Superstar who is best known by her stage name Nico. She is renowned for both her tenure in The Velvet Underground and for her work as a solo artist....
  • "Midnight in Chelsea" by Jon Bon Jovi
    Jon Bon Jovi

    John Francis Bongiovi, Jr. , better known as Jon Bon Jovi, is an United States musician, songwriter and actor, best known as the lead singer and founder of Bon Jovi....
     (the hotel is featured in the song's video, but the song itself is about the London neighborhood
    Chelsea, London

    Chelsea is an area of south-west London, England, bounded to the south by the River Thames, where its frontage runs from Chelsea Bridge along the Chelsea Embankment, Cheyne Walk, Lots Road power station and Chelsea Harbour....
     of the same name)
  • "Ghosts" by Lisa Bastoni
  • "Hi-Fi Popcorn" by The Revs
    The Revs

    The Revs are an indie rock band from Kilcar, Donegal, Ireland. The group consists of three childhood friends: Rory Gallagher on bass guitar and Singing, John McIntyre and Michael O' Donnell ....
  • "The Chelsea Hotel Oral Sex Song" by Jeffrey Lewis
    Jeffrey Lewis

    Jeffrey Lewis is an American anti-folk singer/songwriter and comic book artist. He attended State University of New York at Purchase and graduated in 1997 with a degree in Literature; his Senior Literary Thesis was on the comic book Watchmen, and was awarded third best Liberal Arts thesis paper of his graduation year....
     (references Cohen's "Chelsea Hotel #2")
  • "Chelsea Lovers" by Dave Stewart
    Dave Stewart

    Dave Stewart may refer to:* David A. Stewart , English musician and record producer best known for his work with Eurythmics* Dave Stewart , keyboardist with Egg, Hatfield & The North, National Health and Bruford....
  • "Third Week in the Chelsea" by Jefferson Airplane
    Jefferson Airplane

    Jefferson Airplane was an United States rock music band formed in San Francisco, California in 1965. A pioneer of the psychedelic rock movement, Jefferson Airplane was the first band from the San Francisco scene to achieve mainstream commercial and critical success....
    , in which guitarist Jorma Kaukonen
    Jorma Kaukonen

    Jorma Ludwik Kaukonen Jr. is an United States blues, folk music and rock music guitarist....
     details the thoughts he is having about leaving the band.
  • "We Will Fall" by The Stooges
    The Stooges

    The Stooges are an American rock music rock band that were first active from 1967 to 1974, then reformed in 2003. The Stooges sold few records in their original incarnation and often performed for indifferent or hostile audiences....
  • "Edie (Ciao Baby)" by The Cult
    The Cult

    The Cult are an England Rock music band which gained a dedicated following in their native Britain with mid-1980s singles like "She Sells Sanctuary" before breaking into the American metal market in the late '80s with "Love Removal Machine"....
  • "Crow" by Jim Carroll
    Jim Carroll

    Jim Carroll is an author, poet, autobiography, and punk rock musician. Carroll is best known for his 1978 autobiographical work The Basketball Diaries, which was made into the 1995 The Basketball Diaries with Leonardo DiCaprio as Carroll....
     Band
  • "Like a Drug I Never Did Before" by Joey Ramone
    Joey Ramone

    Joey Ramone , born as Jeffrey Ross Hyman, was a singer and songwriter best known for his work in the punk rock group the Ramones. Joey Ramone's image, voice and tenure as frontman of the Ramones made him a countercultural icon....
     of The Ramones
  • "Godspeed" by Anberlin
    Anberlin

    Anberlin is an alternative rock band from Winter Haven, Florida, United States formed in 2002. Since the beginning of 2007 their line-up has consisted of lead vocalist Stephen Christian, bassist Deon Rexroat, lead guitarist Joseph Milligan, drummer Nathan Young and rhythm guitarist Christian McAlhaney....
  • "Twenty-third Street" by Bill Morrissey
    Bill Morrissey

    Bill Morrissey is an American folk music singer/songwriter from New Hampshire. Many of his songs reflect the harsh realities of life in crumbling New England mill towns....
  • "Visions of Kody" by Visions of Cody
    Visions of Cody

    Visions of Cody is a novel by Jack Kerouac, perhaps his most stylistically free and varied. It was written in 1951-1952, and though not published in its entirety until 1973, it had by then achieved an underground reputation....
  • "Chelsea Avenue" by Patti Scialfa
    Patti Scialfa

    Vivienne Patricia "Patti" Scialfa is an United States singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known for being a bandmate and wife of Bruce Springsteen....
    , on her album 23rd Street Lullaby
  • "Chelsea Hotel #2
    New Skin for the Old Ceremony

    New Skin for the Old Ceremony was the Canada poet, novelist, and singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen's fourth studio album. On this album, he begins to evolve away from the rawer sound of his earlier albums, with violas, mandolins, banjos, guitars, percussion and other instruments giving the album a more orchestrated sound....
    " by Leonard Cohen
    Leonard Cohen

    Leonard Norman Cohen, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec is a Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963....
     in which the singer remembers former lover Janis Joplin
    Janis Joplin

    Janis Lyn Joplin was an United States singer, songwriter, and music arranger, from Port Arthur, Texas. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a solo artist....
    .
  • "Chelsea" by Counting Crows
    Counting Crows

    Counting Crows is a rock band originating from Berkeley, California. The group gained popularity in 1994 following the release of its debut album August and Everything After, which featured the hit single "Mr._Jones_"....
    , hidden track on Across a Wire: Live in New York City
    Across a Wire: Live in New York City

    Across a Wire: Live in New York City is the third album released by Counting Crows, released on July 14, 1998. It is a double-live album, featuring songs from their first two albums, August and Everything After and Recovering the Satellites ....
  • "Hotel Chelsea Nights" by Ryan Adams
    Ryan Adams

    David Ryan Adams is an American Alternative country/rock music singer-songwriter from Jacksonville, North Carolina. Raised by his mother and grandmother, Adams dropped out of school at age 16 and performed with several local bands before moving to Raleigh, North Carolina and forming the band Whiskeytown....
  • "City Rain, City Streets" by Ryan Adams
    Ryan Adams

    David Ryan Adams is an American Alternative country/rock music singer-songwriter from Jacksonville, North Carolina. Raised by his mother and grandmother, Adams dropped out of school at age 16 and performed with several local bands before moving to Raleigh, North Carolina and forming the band Whiskeytown....
  • "Chelsea Hotel" by Carissa's Wieird
  • Most of the songs on Rufus Wainwright
    Rufus Wainwright

    Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright is a Grammy-nominated, Canadian-American singer-songwriter. He has recorded five albums of original music, several extended play, and numerous tracks included on Compilation album and film soundtracks....
    's second album Poses
    Poses

    Poses is Rufus Wainwright second album, released by DreamWorks Records in 2001.The bonus track "Across the Universe" is a Lennon/McCartney song that Wainwright initially recorded for the film I Am Sam, and later entirely re-recorded with producer Greg Wells for Poses....
     were written during his stay at the Chelsea Hotel in the summer of 1999
  • "Chelsea Hotel '78" by Alejandro Escovedo
    Alejandro Escovedo

    Alejandro Escovedo is an United States musician....
  • "Bruce Wayne Campbell Interviewed on the Roof of the Chelsea Hotel, 1979" by Okkervil River
    Okkervil River

    Okkervil River is an indie folk band from Austin, Texas. Formed in 1998, the band takes its name from a short story by Russian author Tatyana Tolstaya....
  • Kim Wilde
    Kim Wilde

    Kim Wilde is an England pop singer.Wilde burst onto the music scene in 1981 with the new wave music classic "Kids in America ", which hit number two in the UK Singles Chart....
     filmed her video for This I Swear
    This I Swear

    "This I Swear" was the second single from Nick Lachey's debut album SoulO. The ballad has powerful lyrics in which he expressed how he felt about the marriage and love he had for his then wife, Jessica Simpson....
     in the hotel in 1995.
  • Dave Gahan's video for "Saw Something"
    Saw Something / Deeper and Deeper

    "Saw Something" and "Deeper and Deeper" are songs performed by Depeche Mode's lead singer Dave Gahan. The songs were written and produced by Gahan, Andrew Phillpott, and Christian Eigner for Gahan's second solo album Hourglass ....
     takes place in the hotel. The partner of Sid Vicious
    Sid Vicious

    Sid Vicious was an England musician best known as the former bassist of the influential punk rock group Sex Pistols....
    , who was one of Gahan's idols in the 1970s, was murdered in the hotel.


The hotel is possibly indirectly referenced in the Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of Rock music, Folk music, bluegrass music, blues, reggae, country music, jazz, Psychedelic rock, space rock and gospel music?and for live performances of long musical improvisati...
 song "Stella Blue" (1970) by Robert Hunter
Robert Hunter (lyricist)

Robert C. Hunter is an United States lyricist, singer songwriter, and poet, best known for his association with Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead....
 and Jerry Garcia
Jerry Garcia

Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia was an American musician best known for his work with the band the Grateful Dead. Though he vehemently disavowed the role, Garcia was viewed by many as the leader or "spokesman" of the group....
. Hunter was staying in the hotel when he wrote the song's lyrics, which contain the line, "I've stayed in every blue-light cheap hotel." The meaning of "blue-light" in this context has proven elusive.

The Libertines
The Libertines

The Libertines were an English rock music band. Formed in London in 1997 by frontmen Carl Bar?t and Pete Doherty , the band also included John Hassall and Gary Powell for most of its recording career....
 recorded either some or all of the Babyshambles Sessions while staying at the Chelsea Hotel in 2003 (there are conflicting reports as to exactly which songs were recorded at the hotel itself). Frontman Pete Doherty
Pete Doherty

Peter Doherty is an England musician, artist and poet. He is currently a singer and songwriter in the band Babyshambles, but first came to fame with punk band The Libertines, alongside Carl Bar?t....
 gave away the entire sessions (featuring over 40 brand new separate recordings) to a fan who he met in the foyer of the hotel, after requesting on a messageboard for someone to help him put them on the internet for free.

Books

  • Chelsea Horror Hotel: A Novel by Dee Dee Ramone
    Dee Dee Ramone

    Dee Dee Ramone, born Douglas Glenn Colvin, was a Germany-United States songwriter and bassist, best remembered as a founding member of punk rock band The Ramones....
     ISBN 1-56025-304-5
  • Take the Cannoli: Stories From the New World
    Take the Cannoli: Stories From the New World

    Take the Cannoli: Stories From the New World is a collection of essays by Sarah Vowell, that were originally published in 2000. In it, she discusses everything from her obsession with "The Godfather" , music lessons, and the intersection of Michigan and Wacker in Chicago, to her experience retracing her ancestors' journey on the Trail of Tea...
     by Sarah Vowell
    Sarah Vowell

    Sarah Jane Vowell is an American author, journalist, humorist, and Pundit . Often referred to as a "social observer," Vowell has written several books and is a regular contributor to the radio program This American Life on Public Radio International....
     ISBN 0-7432-0540-5
  • Sex
    Sex (book)

    Sex is a highly designed coffee table book written by Madonna with photographs by Steven Meisel and film frames taken from film shot by Fabien Baron....
     by Madonna
    Madonna (entertainer)

    Madonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance....
     ISBN 0-446-51732-1
  • La cantante descalza y otros casos oscuros del rock by Jordi Soler ISBN 9-6819-0314-5
  • Legends of the Chelsea Hotel: Living with the Artists and Outlaws at New York's Rebel Mecca by Ed Hamilton ISBN 978-1568583792
  • Netherland by Joseph O'Neill ISBN 978-0-30737-704-3
  • The Chelsea Girl Murders by Sparkle Hayter ISBN 978-0-14200-010-6
  • Ghost A firsthand account into the world of paranormal activity, by Katherine Ramsland. Published by Macmillan, ISBN 2001041725
  • Revelations, A Blue Bloods Novel by Melissa de la Cruz
    Melissa de la Cruz

    Melissa de la Cruz is an author writing mainly for a young adult audience. Her works include the Au Pair series of novels....
     ISBN 978-142310228-1


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