Words and Music: Just Kids by Patti Smith
The one big disappointment I had when I was finally able to visit New York City was finding that the Hotel Chelsea was and still is closed for renovations. For years, since reading a book on the life...
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Ian Curtis has always been some sort of tortured soul poet to me and Joy Division is not a light and airy band, so I was pleasantly surprised when I read Peter Hook’s Unknown Pleasures. It begins at...
View ArticleWords and Music: And I Don’t Want to Live This Life by Deborah Spungen
Goodreads Summary: For most of us, it was just another horrible headline. But for Deborah Spungen, the mother of Nancy, who was stabbed to death at the Chelsea Hotel, it was both a relief and a...
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