The loss of life on February 14, 2017 of Stanley Bard, who ran the Chelsea Resort for 43 years till 2007, prompted recollections of a number of the traditional music created, or impressed, by the well-known New York landmark, often known as the Resort Chelsea.
Bard died from a stroke on the age of 82, however had lengthy since left his imprint on some of the famously bohemian spots on the map of Manhattan. The resort was already referred to as a bohemian bolthole, with Mark Twain and Thomas Wolfe amongst its former residents, when Bard — born within the Bronx in 1934 — took over the operating of the institution on West twenty third Road in 1964.
Beneath Bard’s watchful eye, the Victorian Gothic constructing’s residents included such notable music figureheads as Bob Dylan, who wrote “Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands” there; Madonna, who lived there, pre-fame, within the early Eighties; and the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Cher, Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen. The Canadian singer-songwriter’s “Chelsea Hotel #2” was impressed by his time there, and later coated by Rufus Wainwright, on the soundtrack of the 2005 movie about Cohen’s life and work, I’m Your Man.
Nico’s “Chelsea Girls,” the title music from her 1967 debut album, was written by the Velvet Underground’s Lou Reed and Sterling Morrison. It was composed in reference to Andy Warhol’s experimental movie of the identical identify the yr earlier than, which centered on the residents of the dwelling when Warhol was operating his studio, The Manufacturing unit.
Infamously, the resort was the place Sid Vicious’ girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, was discovered stabbed to loss of life in 1978. Vicious was charged together with her homicide, however died of a drug overdose whereas on bail. Songs immediately impressed by the tackle included Graham Nash’s “The Chelsea Hotel,” Jefferson Airplane’s “Third Week In The Chelsea’ and Dan Bern’s “Chelsea Hotel.”
That’s earlier than you even add the distinguished figures in different creative circles who made it their dwelling at one time or one other, from Arthur C. Clarke (who wrote 2001: A Area Odyssey there) to Arthur Miller, and from Jane Fonda to Stanley Kubrick. The partitions of the Chelsea Resort might inform such tales.
