From Ethan Hawke, Sid Vicious, and Patti Smith to Arthur Miller, William Burroughs, and Edie Sedgwick, renowned New York City blogger Ed Hamilton chronicles the past and present artistic, eccentric, and insane inhabitants of the most famous bohemian building in the world.
There’s a current that courses through the old Chelsea Hotel, a psychic electricity that drives people relentlessly to create. It’s an energy that longtime resident 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 who have fallen prey to the Chelsea and slipped into eccentricity and even full-blown insanity.
Readers enter one of Dee Dee Ramone’s flashbacks; meet the ghost of author Thomas Wolfe; learn of a movie star’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.
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