The room where Leonard Cohen had an affair with Janis Joplin, as well as Joni Mitchell (different time), went for $85,000. Jimi Hendrix’s door went for $13,000. The door to the room shared by Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick, a couple described in Vanity Fair as ‘Romeo and Juliet with kink’, went for $52,500. The door to the room where Jack Kerouac wrote On the Road sold for $30,000. The biggest prize was the Dylan room, Room 211, which sold for a remarkable $100,000. All the more remarkable since Dylan led a very quiet life there. As biographer Howard Sounes commented, ‘he had a piano in his
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