Episodes

  • 21 - Goodbye Chelsea Hotel

    21 - Goodbye Chelsea Hotel
    Jun 20 2023
    We say our final goodbye to the Chelsea Hotel as it is an was.

    Goodbye to Edith Piaf, Dylan Thomas, Jack Kerouac, Bob Dylan, Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick, Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, Sid Vicious, Jackson Pollock and all the other great stories from the hotel.

    On to the next adventure!
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    3 mins
  • 20 - Great gig in the sky

    20 - Great gig in the sky
    Jun 20 2023
    We take a look at the song "Great gig in the sky" from Pink Floyd's groundbreaking monumental album "The Dark Side of the Moon".

    The story starts from an impriovsed voice solo on a track about death that becomes the perfect soundtrack for love-making and the creation of life.

    We also see how singer Clare Tory had to fight to get recognition for her work and have her name appear aside that of banmember Richard Wright.
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    4 mins
  • 19 - Mercy Street

    19 - Mercy Street
    Jun 20 2023
    We look at the poem, "45 Mercy Street" which inspired the song "Mercy Street" by artist Peter Gabriel from his album "So".

    We also look at the complicated and profound story of the author of the poem, Anne Sexton, and her struggle with family, society and her own inner demons in her cotnious "awful rowing towards God".
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    5 mins
  • 18 - The Cosmic Dancer

    18 - The Cosmic Dancer
    Jun 19 2023
    We follow the life and music career of the Cosmic Dancer, Marc Bolan founder of the band T-Rex and the Glam Rock movement which inspired such artists as Alice Cooper, Kiss, Roxy Music and David Bowie.

    From his rise to fame at a younf age, through difficulties with alcohol and drugs, we follow him all the way to his tragic early death, just a month afte one of his idols, Elivs Presley.

    In his shortlife he left us such immortal tracks as "Get it on", Cosmic Dancer" and "Chidren of the Revolution".
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    6 mins
  • 17 - Layla

    17 - Layla
    Jun 19 2023
    We look at how the story of "Layla and Majnun" laid bare to legendary guitarist and songwriter Eric Clapton his love for Pattie Boyd, wife of the Beatle George Harrison, creating a trangled love triangle made of infedelity, alcohol and drug abuse.
    The story takes us through the twists and turns behind the scens of some of the most famous pices of music in history, which as well as "Layla", include "Wonderful tonight" and "Something"
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    7 mins
  • 16 - Fred Neil

    16 - Fred Neil
    Feb 27 2023
    We look at the life and mysterious dissapearance of singer-songwriter Fred Neil, author of the hit "everybody's talkin'", who at the height of his career decide to leave everthing to retire to Florida to be with his beloved dolphins.
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    5 mins
  • 15 - The lion sleeps tonight

    15 - The lion sleeps tonight
    Jan 11 2023
    We look at the complivated story of one of the world's most well-known songs from an illiterate Zulu singer, Solomon Linda to the Lion King and everything in between.
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    6 mins
  • 14 - Harry Smith, the Shaman

    14 - Harry Smith, the Shaman
    Nov 16 2022
    We take a look at the very unusual life, of shaman, ethnologist, philosopher, film maker, grammy winner and many other things, Harry Smith, who lived at the Chelsea hotel and influenced such artists as Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, Allen Ginsburg and many others.
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    7 mins