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The Chelsea Hotel is in New York City, in the Chelsea section of Manhattan, on 23rd Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues.stayed up all night in the Chelsea Hotel writing Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands for you
Recommend staying there. It's clean and has a lobby full of bizarre Village-y paintings and sculptures, and it costs about a hundred bucks, a lot less than the average clean hotel in New York City. The rooms are well-kept and the service is good too.
Edie Sedgewick is an example of someone famous who lived there. Sid Vicious killed Nancy Spungen there. Leonard Cohen and Janis Joplin had an affair there, as recounted in Cohen's Chelsea Hotel. Virgil Thompson (American classical composer) lived there. Craig Claiborn, the food writer, lived there. There is a plaque out front listing several famous residents...
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Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 07:06:37 -0600
From: eddie@edlis.org (Ed Ricardo)
Subject: BBC 2 television, Friday 17 March 1995...
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Friday 17 March 1995 BBC2
23.20 TRIBUTE TO NIGEL FINCH: CHELSEA HOTEL (Ceefax) a
tribute to series editor Nigel Finch, who died last month, this
classic `Arena' film documents the world of the Chelsea Hotel in New
York, a legendary haven for artists and performers. For over 110
years, the hotel's drab brown doors have concealed a bohemian
community where brilliant and eccentric works have been created by
such legends as Andy Warhol, William Burroughs, Quentin Crisp and
Nico.
0.15 REVOLUTION (1985) (Ceefax) (Nicam Digital Stereo)...
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Now that the BBC is online it is much easier to notify
people of upcoming Dylan-related programmes with a quick and
dirty cut and paste.
The Radio Times mentioned Dylan and SAd eyed lAdy of the
LOWlaNDs but the BBC no doubt thinks online people are not
caught by that hook...
I have yet to see anything posted from programme schedules
in other countries, presumably they are online in most
developed countries?
Ed
Bob Dylan: Not Like a Rolling Stone Interview. Spin, Volume One Number Eight.
December 1985.
Interview by Scott Cohen
This interview
was taken from another Web site.
The author of the site was ramer@edu.wisc.ssc
I never had that much to do with Edie Sedgwick. I've seen where I have
had, and read that I have had, but I don't remember Edie that well. I
remember she was around, but I know other people who, as far as I
know, might have been involved with Edie. Uh, she was a great girl. An
exciting girl, very enthusiastic. She was around the Andy Warhol
scene, and I drifted in and out of that scene, but then I moved out of
the Chelsea Hotel. We, me and my wife, lived in the Chelsea Hotel on
the third floor in 1965 or '66, when our first baby was born. We moved
out of that hotel maybe a year before Chelsea Girls, and when Chelsea
Girls came out, it was all over for the Chelsea Hotel. You might as
well have burned it down. The notoriety it had gotten from that movie
pretty much destroyed it. I think Edie was in Chelsea Girls. I had
lost total touch with her by that time, anyway. It may just have been
a time when there was just a lot of stuff happening. Ondine, Steve
Paul's Scene, Cheetah. That's when I would have known Edie if I would
have known her, and I did know her, but I don't recall any type of
relationship. If I did have one, I think I'd remember.
Nov 14, 1998:
"Chelsea Hotel" is the best track on the new Dan Bern album, hands down.
You can hear a long snippet of it here.
http://hillstrom.iww.org/danbern/chelsea.wav
Chelsea mourning -
Dylan got married there, Viva gave birth there and Nancy died there.
The Velvet Underground's John Cale pays tribute to the most famous hotel in the world
- (Observer, UK Spt 3, 2000)