Chelsea Hotel

Shirley Clarke, actress and choreographer, at Chelsea Hotel in 1970

Sam Shepard and Patti Smith Chelsea Hotel, New York, 1971 photo by Gerard Malanga

Robert Mapplethorpe by Patti Smith, as featured in 'Just Kids'

Nico and Robert Mapplethorpe

The Chelsea Hotel has seen a lot of action: Mark Rothko lived there. Sid Vicious killed Nancy Spungen there, Arthur C Clarke wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Dylan Thomas drank himself to death there. Other famous lodgers included Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Leonard Coen, Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, Iggy Pop, Allan Ginsberg, Edie Sedgewick and Chales Bukowski to name a few... and of course there is the Leonard Coen song recently covered by Lana Del Rey (which despite myself I like)

I have been collecting images for the last month of the infamous hotel after finishing one time Chelsea hotel resident Patti Smith's heart wrenching book 'Just Kids', about her friendship and relationship with Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. If you haven't read it, you must. Just like Patti's music, it is well written , raw and honest... I haven't cried so much at the ending of a book for ages :)

Just Kids: Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith, Chelsea Hotel

In bed with musicians...

IN bed with Mick Jagger and Anita Pallenberg

IN bed with Robert Plant

John and Yoko in bed

In bed With Fleetwood mac :Rolling Stone cover

Patti Smith and Sam Sheppard

Kurt Cobain: Love that Bed

One of My all time favourite pictures: Jimi Hendrix on his beautiful bed

Bob Dylan :)

Bjork in bed

I have been collecting these photos of rocks greatest people in bed until the time was right and having just stumbled upon Fleetwood mac in bed thought the time was right.

Bed and Music what is not to love?