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All American Collection
This programme is part of BBC Four's All American, a collection of classic BBC programmes about the USA available online to watch in full.
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More about this programme
Life at the Chelsea Hotel was a waking dream. The roll call of its wild and illustrious inhabitants, long-term and temporary, renders that dream epic. It's a reverie of the squalid and sublime; both Sid and Nancy and Mark Twain. Mainly, though, it's been a haven for the great American outsiders - Bob Dylan, Jackson Pollock, Warhol's superstars. Its dim corridors and endlessly various rooms and apartments, at once creepy and inspiring, made a magical space for the generation of the freest artistic alchemy in American history.
Anthony Wall
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About BBC Four Collection programmes
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Credits
- Director
- Nigel Finch
- Producer
- Alan Yentob
