The Washington Square Hotel is the hotel made famous in the song “Diamonds and Rust” — best known to metal fans through Judas Priest’s version. The song was originally written and recorded by Joan Baez, who penned it about her past relationship with Bob Dylan years after it ended. Dylan himself lived for a time in Room 305 of the hotel, then known as the Hotel Earle.
The song’s lyrics include the line: “Now you’re smiling out the window of that crummy hotel over Washington Square.” Back in 1974, when Baez wrote the song — or in 1964, the time the lyrics refer to — the hotel was indeed rather rundown. Today, however, the Washington Square Hotel is a stylish, high-standard boutique hotel in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. For those wanting to stay somewhere immortalised in song, it’s the perfect place.
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103 Waverly Pl, New York, NY 10011, USA
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