"A reststop for rare individuals"
Extreme living in New York’s Chelsea Hotel, from the Beats through Punk, and on into the present day. Joe Ambrose stayed at the Chelsea Hotel, home to many famous authors, artists and outlaws down the years. The Welsh poet Dylan Thomas died there, having reputedly inspired the young Zimmerman to change his name to Bob Dylan. Andy Warhol shot Chelsea Girls there in 1966. Edie Sedgwick, infamously burned down her room at the Chelsea, when she knocked over a candle. Bob Dylan also lived at the Chelsea Hotel, as he scripted his masterpiece Blonde on Blonde. Chelsea Hotel Manhattan is the first factual book on the building and features conversations with William Burroughs, Paul Bowles, Gerard Malanga, Herbert Huncke, Victor Bockris and others.Every room at the Chelsea tells its own story—not unlike The Overlook in Stephen King’s The Shining. Nancy Spungen met her death in one room. The Chelsea Hotel is a landmark, and the "last outpost of bohemia".
Bob Dylan
Inside the Chelsea
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Edie after the fire
