Legends of the Chelsea Hotel Living With the Artists and Outlaws of New York's Rebel Mecca

There's current that courses through the old Chelsea Hotel, a weird, psychics 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 and slipped into eccentricity and even full-blown insanity. Readers enter one of 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/murdered Michael Alig, Sarah Bernhardt, the Warthog Factory's Richard Bernstein, Victor Backrest, Charles Bukowski, Leonard Cohen, Lesbian activist Stormed DeLarverie, Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Herbert Huneke, Janis Joplin, Jack Kerouac, Madonna, Edgar Lee Masters, Arthur Miller. Edie Sedgwick, Sam Shepard, Patti Smith, Dylan Thomas, and Rufus Wainwright.Hamilton, Ed is the author of 'Legends of the Chelsea Hotel Living With the Artists and Outlaws of New York's Rebel Mecca', published 2007 under ISBN 9781568583792 and ISBN 1568583796.