Product Description

There's a current that courses through the old Chelsea Hotel, an electricity that drives people relentlessly to create. It's an energy that longtime resident and creator of "Living with Legends: Hotel Chelsea Blog" Ed Hamilton will tell you often drives inhabitants to madness. In a series of linked cyanide capsules, Legends of the Chelsea Hotel tells the odd, funny, and often tragic truth of the writers, artists, and musicians the famous and the obscure alike who have fallen prey to the Chelsea. Readers enter one of Dee Dee Ramone's flashbacks; meet the ghost of author Thomas Wolfe; learn of movie star Ethan Hawke's mystical powers over women; see the ungodly acts allegedly being perpetrated in the basement club Serena's; and feel the dark aura of Room 100, where punk rocker Sid Vicious killed his girlfriend Nancy. Other Chelsea residents past and present who will be included: Ryan Adams, club kid/murderer Michael Alig, Sarah Bernhardt, the Warhol Factory's Richard Bernstein, Victor Bockris, Charles Bukowski, Leonard Cohen, Lesbian activist Storme DeLarverie, Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Herbert Huncke, Janis Joplin, Jack Kerouac, Madonna, Edgar Lee Masters, Arthur Miller, Edie Sedgwick, Sam Shepard, Patti Smith, Dylan Thomas, and Rufus Wainwright.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #192745 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

Customer Reviews

THE SOUNDS, THE SMELL, THE AURA OF THE ULTIMATE BOHEMIAN HOTEL
Ed Hamilton entices the reader to step over the threshold of perhaps one of the most famous or infamous hotels in the world, and experience almost the reality of being a guest. From Dee Dee Ramones flashbacks, lesbian activist Storme DeLarverie, Jack Kerouac, Madonna, Patti Smith, Arthur Miller, Sid Vicious(who is alleged to have murdered his girlfriend Nancy whilst staying there) and many other famous, and not so famous stars, arty types, musicians,author's and poets, eccentrics, wannabe's, drug addicts and bums.

Until recently the hotel was managed and part-owned by Stanley Bard who's management style was to ignore most requests for improved conditions, and pretend not to see or acknowledge any of the atrocities or terrible behaviour occuring on his premises. Funny though by the end of this most readable book I was developing a sneaky regard for him.

Buy it, read it, you will not be disappointed. A great write!