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That morning at 3:10 am Chet Bakker, the famous jazz trumpet player , singer, was found dead, laying on the street under his window on the second floor of his room 210 at hotel Prins Hendrik at the Prins Hendrikkade in Amsterdam. Baker was 59 years of age he was in Amsterdam as part of a multi-appearance tour of the Netherlands.

Chet regularly preformed at the Amsterdam cafe "De Kroeg" ( nowadays called "Malou Melo") took part in jam sessions and stayed the night above the cafe.

Chet was not only known for his incredible trumpet virtuosity and tender voice but also as a timeless style icon.

Chet Baker playing in Amsterdam

Hotel Prins Hendrik Amsterdam

Chet Baker room 210

Room 210 Chet Baker

Saturday, April 8, 2017

John Lennon and Yoko ono 'Bed-In' Amsterdam

On March 25 John Lennon and Yoko Ono spent their week-long honeymoon, (after their Gibraltar wedding on march 20 1969,) in bed at room 702 of the Amsterdam Hilton hotel. This was the first of their "bed-in" protests against the Vietnam war, here they invited the world's press into their hotel room every day between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m.

later that year at May 26 they did their second ‘bed in’ protest at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal Canada.