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==== Music ==== The hotel was featured in many songs. [[Joni Mitchell]] is sometimes cited as having written the song "[[Chelsea Morning]]" about her room in the hotel.<ref name="Miller 1999" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=January 19, 1993 |title=The Inauguration; Shedding Light on a Morning and a Name|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/19/us/the-inauguration-shedding-light-on-a-morning-and-a-name.html |access-date=October 13, 2023 |archive-date=June 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230601232729/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/19/us/the-inauguration-shedding-light-on-a-morning-and-a-name.html |url-status=live}}</ref>{{Efn|1=''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]'' magazine writes that "Chelsea Morning" was about a different apartment on 16th Street.<ref>{{cite magazine |date=October 12, 1992 |title=Tanqueray Rock-n-Roll Trivia Map |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oOQCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA16-IA3 |magazine=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]|page=16-IA3|access-date=October 13, 2023 |archive-date=October 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231021223938/https://books.google.com/books?id=oOQCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA16-IA3#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live}}</ref>}} [[Leonard Cohen]] and [[Janis Joplin]] had an affair there in 1968 (as memorialized in a plaque installed there in 2009),<ref>{{cite news|last=Itzkoff |first=Dave|author-link=Dave Itzkoff|date=October 22, 2009 |title=Chelsea Hotel Will Remember Leonard Cohen Well |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/chelsea-hotel-will-remember-leonard-cohen-well/ |access-date=October 13, 2023|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|department=ArtsBeat |archive-date=October 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231021223929/https://archive.nytimes.com/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/chelsea-hotel-will-remember-leonard-cohen-well/ |url-status=live}}</ref> and Cohen later wrote the song "Chelsea Hotel", as well as another version titled "[[New Skin for the Old Ceremony#Songs|Chelsea Hotel No. 2]]", about it.<ref name="Considine 2005" /><ref name="Hoby 2010" /><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Runtagh |first=Jordan |date=November 14, 2016 |title=How Leonard Cohen Met Janis Joplin: Inside Chelsea Hotel Encounter |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/how-leonard-cohen-met-janis-joplin-inside-legendary-chelsea-hotel-encounter-121067/ |access-date=October 13, 2023 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|archive-date=June 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230611023110/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/how-leonard-cohen-met-janis-joplin-inside-legendary-chelsea-hotel-encounter-121067/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Bob Dylan wrote the songs "[[Visions of Johanna]]"<ref name="Brenzel 2016" /><ref>{{cite web |last=Tippins |first=Sherill |date=July 11, 2017 |title=Bob Dylan and the Writing of 'Blonde on Blonde' at the Chelsea Hotel |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/bob-dylan-and-the-writing-of-blonde-on-blonde-at-the-chelsea-hotel |access-date=October 14, 2023 |website=[[The Daily Beast]]|archive-date=June 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230603163958/https://www.thedailybeast.com/bob-dylan-and-the-writing-of-blonde-on-blonde-at-the-chelsea-hotel |url-status=live}}</ref> and "[[Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands]]" there, mentioning this in "[[Sara (Bob Dylan song)|Sara]]".<ref name="Hoby 2010" /><ref name="Hasted 2016" /> Additionally, Nico's "[[Chelsea Girls (song)|Chelsea Girls]]" is about the hotel and its inhabitants.<ref name="Hoby 2010" /><ref name="Hasted 2016">{{Cite magazine|last=Hasted |first=Nick |date=January 29, 2016 |title=Jefferson Airplane's Paul Kantner: 'We were like Columbus, exploring the world' |url=https://www.uncut.co.uk/features/jefferson-airplanes-paul-kantner-we-were-like-columbus-exploring-the-world-72653/ |access-date=October 13, 2023 |magazine=[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]|archive-date=December 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221205023715/https://www.uncut.co.uk/features/jefferson-airplanes-paul-kantner-we-were-like-columbus-exploring-the-world-72653/ |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Jorma Kaukonen]] wrote the song "Third Week in the Chelsea" for [[Jefferson Airplane]]'s 1971 album ''[[Bark (Jefferson Airplane album)|Bark]]'' after spending three weeks living in the Chelsea.<ref name="Hasted 2016" /> Other songs featuring the hotel include "[[Midnight in Chelsea]]" by [[Bon Jovi]],<ref name="CBS News 2018">{{cite web |title=Doors from New York City's famed Chelsea Hotel head to auction |publisher=[[CBS News]]|date=April 7, 2018 |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chelsea-hotel-doors-head-to-auction/ |access-date=October 14, 2023 |archive-date=July 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230708065354/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chelsea-hotel-doors-head-to-auction/ |url-status=live}}</ref> "[[Love Is Hell (Ryan Adams album)|Hotel Chelsea Nights]]" by [[Ryan Adams]],<ref>{{cite news|last=Edelstone |first=Steven |title=Ryan Adams' Guide to New York City |newspaper=[[The New York Observer|Observer]]|location=New York City|date=July 10, 2017 |url=https://observer.com/2017/07/ryan-adams-guide-to-new-york-city/ |access-date=October 14, 2023 |archive-date=July 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230705061330/https://observer.com/2017/07/ryan-adams-guide-to-new-york-city/ |url-status=live}}</ref> "[[Real Animal|Chelsea Hotel '78]]" by [[Alejandro Escovedo]],<ref>{{cite news|last=Cornell |first=Rick |title=Alejandro Escovedo's 'Chelsea Hotel '78'|newspaper=[[INDY Week]]|date=October 22, 2008 |url=https://indyweek.com/music/alejandro-escovedo-s-chelsea-hotel-78/ |access-date=October 14, 2023 |archive-date=July 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230708065400/https://indyweek.com/music/alejandro-escovedo-s-chelsea-hotel-78/ |url-status=live}}</ref> and "[[The Stand Ins|Bruce Wayne Campbell Interviewed on the Roof of the Chelsea Hotel, 1979]]" by [[Okkervil River]],<ref>{{cite magazine | title=Director's Cut | date=September 2008|magazine=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BpE-C2vX2LcC&pg=PA128 | access-date=2024-05-01 | page=128}}</ref> and [[The Tortured Poets Department (song)|"The Tortured Poets Department]]" by [[Taylor Swift]].<ref>{{cite magazine| last=Caruso | first=Skyler | title=Every Place Taylor Swift References in 'Tortured Poets Department', from the Black Dog to the Heath |magazine=[[People (magazine)|People]]| date=April 19, 2024 | url=https://people.com/every-place-taylor-swift-references-in-the-tortured-poets-department-8636120 | access-date=April 22, 2024}}</ref>
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