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Rock 'n' roll and hotels have had a stormy history,
to say the least. If it's not wildmen like The
Who's Keith Moon posting televisions out of
windows, or John and Yoko camping out in the name
of 'bedism', then it's Sid and Nancy pushing the
envelope too far, too soon.
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 But not at Brighton's Hotel Pelirocco. Because Hotel Pelirocco rocks harder than any of its guests.
A glorified bed and breakfast that's a cross between a musical fantasist's wet dream and a mate's brilliant house, each of the 19 rooms are a mini-shrine to either musical genres and heroes or youth culture and its icons.
It's a brilliant antidote to the net-curtained rubbish of normal B&Bs. I stayed in the absolut love room, sponsored by absolut vodka. A flock-wallpapered velvet lovenest, the room has a bed as big as a cricket field and miniature, if empty, bottles of absolut dangling from cherubic light fittings.
 If vodka love's not your cup of tea try the Jamie Reid room, the man responsible for The Sex Pistols' artwork, or the Skint room, designed by the Brighton-based record label. Or if you want the ultimate Brighton trip, try Modrophenia, complete with classic mod-target duvet covers.
Owners Jane and Mick owe a lot to the Brighton-based mod movie:
'We always had to stay in shitty places when we came away to the coast,' says Jane of their weekender days. 'And then one bank holiday weekend we had an idea to open a hotel in Brighton dedicated to Quadrophenia.'
Unlike most weekend ideas, the thought grew into a Georgian house on the seafront Regency Square, with rooms designed by rock stars and DJs.
'We've got this reputation that we run a clubbers' hotel, but that's not really the case,' says Jane, who gave up PR to run her B&B.
'We think it's more important to get the attitude right and just be really friendly. A 70-year old lady stayed in the Sputnik room and said it was the best hotel she'd ever stayed in.'
With a bar open later than anywhere else in Brighton
and a PlayStation
in reception and in every room, Jane says
a lot of people reckon it's like the teenage bedroom
they never had. 'People feel very at home here.'
Except at home breakfast in bed didn't come with a massive jug of Bloody Mary. It might only be rock 'n' roll, but we certainly like it.
— Tom Morgan 31.10.00
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