Sony/BMG Beds Down At Morrison Hotel

Legendary photographers woke up this morning, got themselves some beers.

By A.D. Amorosi

The Morrison Hotel. It’s not just an irksome yet elegant Doors album anymore. It’s a new gallery culled from the ashes (not actual cinder, we’re metaphor-ing here) of 313 Bowery Street in Manhattan, the late home to the legendary CBGB Gallery.

It’s also several other galleries all owned by producer Peter Blachley, record store owner Rich Horowitz and music photographer Henry Diltz. There’s Morrison Hotel Galleries in Soho in NYC, La Jolla California, and LA. But now they’ll show off photos taken by Columbia Records' in-house photographer Don Hunstein and others snapped at Columbia Records’ long-memorable 30th Street Studio in Manhattan. Lenny Bernstein did West Side Story there, Dylan did Highway 61 there. Glenn Gould, Miles Davis, Johnny Cash. Lots. The studio was amongst the legends, if you’re one of those guys who knows about studio stuff and remembers life before bedroom technology.

On July 18, Sony/BMG’s new photo archive Icon Collectibles opens the vaults, the bats’ll fly out and they’ll put ‘em on the gallery walls of 116 Prince Street in New York City and show pictures of Mingus, Ali, Ella and more.

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