Chelsea Hotel Manhattan
Extreme living in New York’s Chelsea Hotel
Author:
Joe Ambrose
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Paperback
Size:
138mm x 216mm
Page Count:
192
ISBN-13:
9781900486606
Weight (g):
500
Genre:
Music
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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. Andy Warhol shot Chelsea Girls there and welsh poet Dylan Thomas died there, having reputedly inspired the young Zimmerman to change his name to Bob Dylan.
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. Sid Vicious met his death in one room, an episode recounted in detail by Rockets Redglare.
Books have been written in the Chelsea Hotel (Stanley Bard, the hotel manager keeps a collection of them), but none have been written about it until now.
One hotel, its superstars, bohemians, junkies, losers and outsiders.
CHELSEA HOTEL MANHATTAN has short, punchy chapters with titles like:
- TEN GREAT BOOKS TO READ DURING A SEASON OF
- TAKING HEROIN
- THE SUBWAY TALIBAN
- JOHNNY THUNDERS’ APARTMENT
- WHERE DYLAN WROTE BLOOD ON THE TRACKS
- SURFIN’ IN HARLEM
Reaction to Joe's other work:
“High octane shit” Hot Press
“Joe Ambrose, word guerrilla, pulls his pin and hurls his grenade” Patrick McCabe, author The Butcher Boy
“Let me assure you, as someone who knows about these things, that if you took half the 'shits' and 'fucks' out of that book, you'd sell twice as many copies." Joe's mother, Mai Ambrose