Grover Cleveland’s Bed: A Deep Cut
This is the story about Grover Cleveland’s “Bed” and the 1970s recording artists like Elton John, Joe Walsh and members of the band Chicago who probably slept on it at Colorado’s Caribou Ranch recording studio. Caribou Ranch was a recording studio a built in 1972 in a converted barn on ranch property in a mountain valley nearer Nederland, uphill from Boulder and about an hour from Denver. It was used by many well-known artists of the ‘70s and early ‘80s. Over the years, more than 150 artists paid a visit to the Caribou Ranch Recording Studio. The music they recorded in the studio produced more than 45 top ten albums, 18 Grammy awards, and 20 number-one Billboard hits. And — apparently — many of the 150 artists slept in Grover Cleveland’s bed. We know this fun fact because the bed was sold. After the studio closed when it caught fire in 1985, much of the remaining “Rock 'n' Roll memorabilia” was auctioned off in Denver. Included in the auction was “ Sale 3...