This flat is one of the deadliest apartments in music history.

Owned by singer/songwriter Harry Nilsson ("Without You", "Coconut") during the 70s, the flat was close to Nilsson hangouts like Apple Records, the Playboy Club, and Tramps disco. When Nilsson was in the States, he would loan out his apartment to his network of friends.

On July 29, 1974, Cass Elliot ("Don't Call Me Mama Anymore," The Mamas and the Papas) played a particularly strenuous show at the London Palladium and returned to this apartment to rest. She died of heart failure at the age of 32. Contrary to rumors, she did not choke on a sandwich; in fact, she had lost 80 lbs from fasting four days a week, and this most likely led to her heart failure.

Four years later, the Who's drummer Keith Moon returned to the apartment from a night out on September 7, 1978. Moon had been given the drug Clomethiazole to battle his alcohol addiction. He overdosed on 32 tablets of the drug.

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Few standing structures have had the varied cultural impact that the Chelsea has on popular culture. Built from 1883-1885, the twelve-story red-brick building was one of the city's first private apartment cooperatives.

While staying at the Chelsea, Arthur C. Clarke wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Dylan Thomas was staying at the Chelsea when he died of pneumonia on November 9, 1953.

On October 12, 1978, Nancy Spungen (girlfriend of Sid Vicious) was found stabbed to death here.

Today, the Chelsea no longer accepts new residents and is privately owned, but many previous long-term residents are protected by state rent regulations.

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On July 12, 1996, Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlain and keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin were sharing a room at the Regency Hotel on Park Ave. They were also sharing heroin- the Pumpkins had recently done an Asian tour recently the readily available heroin in Thailand had revived addiction in both of them.

Shortly before midnight on July 11th, both of the musicians took some heroin. A couple of hours later, Chamberlain woke up to find Melvoin unconscious and was unable to revive him. When the paramedics, they pronounced Melvoin DOA from an overdose.

Melvoin was a multi-instrumental talent, a graduate of Julliard who played drums in the Dickies and keyboards for Prince and the Smashing Pumpkins.

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This is the approximate spot where Jeff Buckley waded into the Wolf River on the night of May 29, 1997. He was in Tennessee with his band that spring to resume working on his second album My Sweetheart, the Drunk. The Wolf River can be deceptive right there between downtown Memphis and the Mud Island Peninsula right before the river intersects with the Mississippi, and so Jeff Buckley, accompanied by roadie Keith Foti, wasn't thinking of the vicious undertow caused by passing boats when he walked in wearing his clothes and boots.

He sang Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" while he swam to the middle of the river. Foti, who stayed on shore, lost sight of him after a tugboat went by, and Buckley's body wasn't discovered until June 4th near a riverboat in the Mississippi. His death was ruled an accidental drowning. He was thirty years old.

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Soul singer Donny Hathaway's body was discovered on the sidewalk beneath his fifteenth-floor hotel room of New York's Essex House on the night of January 13, 1979. The glass had been removed from the window of his room and the door was locked from the inside. His death was ruled a suicide.

Hathaway was a songwriter, musician and producer who worked with artists like Curtis Mayfield, Aretha Franklin and the Staple Singers, but he was best known for his duets with Roberta Flack "Where is the Love" and "You've Got a Friend" in the early '70s.

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