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Alejandro Escovedo - On Sid Vicious and "Chelsea Hotel"

Posted on Jun 17th 2008 by

Another interview clip from photographer Christopher McLallen's exclusive shoot for BLURT. Here, Escovedo holds forth on his punk rock days, hanging out at New York's infamous Chelsea Hotel, and when Sid killed Nancy - all memorialized in his Real Animal song "Chelsea Hotel."



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