Their wildest dreams further came true when a fanbase of what he calls "bedroom heads, unrepresented as a subculture" took the band's second album Magic and Medicine to No 1 in 2003.
In the four-story cinder-block house 80 children, ranging from newborns to teenage girls, slept in four bedrooms head-to-toe.
Around midnight on New Year's Day 1994, Scott S. Douglas jumped off the Tappan Zee Bridge hours after his wife, Anne Scripps Douglas, the heiress to a newspaper fortune, was found bludgeoned in her upstairs bedroom with head injuries from which she would die six days later.
As I sat with her in the dim light of her bedroom, her head in my lap, stroking her hair, I wondered what must it be like to feel the sudden shock of pain caused by something you cannot see or stop.
But as she was getting ready to go to the store to buy a stair gate, Will crawled away from his 9-year-old sister's bedroom and headed for the staircase.
We tucked our son into the crib provided in the Western-style bedroom and headed upstairs (with the baby monitor) to the formal Japanese dining room for dinner, an option for an additional fee.
It wasn't long before Jennifer began pulling out the shoeboxes as well, along with Karen's cashmere sweaters and blazers, and parading from the bedroom in head-to-toe outfits, while Christopher commented from his chair on the looks that worked and those that didn't.
The result includes Dualit toasters in the bedrooms, shower heads the size of dinner plates, organic shower gels and shampoos made with herbs and plants from the hotel's walled garden, and some of the comfiest beds around.
By "that day," I mean the day I came home from work to find my Doberman, Red, splayed out on my bedroom floor, his head to one side, his body lifeless but still warm.
