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A riveting memoir of disco-era nightlife and the outrageous goings-on behind the doors of New York City's most famous and exclusive nightclub In the disco days and nights of New York City in the 1970s and 1980s, the place to be was Studio 54. Andy Warhol, Liza Minnelli, and Bianca Jagger were among the nightly assortment of A-list celebrity regulars consorting with New York's young, wild, and beautiful. Studio 54 was a place where almost nothing was taboo, from nonstop dancing and drinking beneath the coke-dusted neon moon to drugs and sex in the infamous unisex restrooms to the outrageous money-skimming activities taking place in the office of the studio's flamboyant co-owner Steve Rubell. Author Anthony Haden-Guest was there on opening night in 1977 and over the next decade spent many late nights and early mornings basking in the strobe-lit wonder. But The Last Party is much more than a fascinating account of the scandals, celebrities, crimes, and extreme excesses encouraged within the notorious Manhattan nightspot. Haden-Guest brings an entire era of big-city glitz and unapologetic hedonism to breathtaking life, recalling a vibrant New York night world at once exhilarating and dangerous before the terrible, sobering dawn of the age of AIDS.… (altro)
Reveals the inside story behind the glitz, glamour, and decadence of New York City's hottest 1970s disco, from the legendary celebrity parties to the fate of the flamboyant owners of Studio 54
This is a pretty good social history of the New York club scene, focusing primarily on Studio 54, but looking at other clubs, as well. The book works well when its author is telling stories of the clubs, their owners, and their denizens. It works less well when the author inserts himself into the narrative. In the end this book suffers a bit from the "I don't know what I want to be" syndrome. On the one hand it wants to be a social history, but on the other hand it kind of wants to be a memoir. It doesn't completely fill either role well, although it's definitely interesting and entertaining. ( )
”The Last Party” tries to hone in on the fabulous and near-fabulous, but it’s not a dishy gossip feast as much as a book about the intersection of personality, business sense, luck and recklessness that fueled the rise and fall of various discos and clubs.
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Few experiences an be more tiresome than hearing a mature person whining about the good old days. Will this be so with Studio 54 and that whole microclimate of excess it conjured into being? One of the ways you can tell that a phenomenon that seemed as transient as a gleam in the eye, a curl of the lip, an itch in the groin has become embedded in a culture is when it generates nostalgia among a demographic that hadn't even been born when the whole thing was popping. So it is with Studio 54. And further confirmation that such a phenomenon has become a keeper is when blasts from the past blow in with increasing frequency. As, indeed, they do now. -Introduction, 2014
Tama Janowitz recently told me how perplexed she would always feel whenever anybody asked whether she missed the eighties. The young novelist had, of course, been very much a part of the eighties Manhattan nocturne - Andy Warhol had filmed her first novel, Slaves of New York, and she had been one of his tirelessly Constant Companions - but, so far as she was concerned, this had just been ordinary life. "I was desperately sorry that I had missed the sixties," she said. -Introduction, 2009
Not everybody's memories of those years are as clear as springwater but Antonia de Portago can summon up a specific evening at Studio 54 as clearly as though she were running it through a projector. De Portago, a French countess by marriage, a chanteuse with a punk band, The Operators, by calling, was sitting at a balcony table. "There were a few sofas and you could rest," she says. "We were a whole group. There was Elsa Martinelli ... Helmut Berger. You know, who was in The Damned? ...Mick Jagger ... some of the Niarchoses ... a girl from Manila ..." -Prologue
Maurice Brahms got involved with Manhattan's Nightworld entirely on account of John Addison, who arrived from South Africa in the early seventies. "He was a second cousin of mine. He stayed with me in Brooklyn," Maurice Brahms says. The cousins were unalike. Brahms was of middling height, garrulous, straight, and dressed like a businessman, whereas Addison was tall, gay, secretive, and elegant. Brahms had a front-stage demeanor, like an actors doing monologue. Addison liked to lurk in the winds. But the cousins got on fine. Both were ambitious, tough, and sharp, and both could grip a dollar hard enough to make it squeal with pain. -Chapter 1, Take Your Partners
A riveting memoir of disco-era nightlife and the outrageous goings-on behind the doors of New York City's most famous and exclusive nightclub In the disco days and nights of New York City in the 1970s and 1980s, the place to be was Studio 54. Andy Warhol, Liza Minnelli, and Bianca Jagger were among the nightly assortment of A-list celebrity regulars consorting with New York's young, wild, and beautiful. Studio 54 was a place where almost nothing was taboo, from nonstop dancing and drinking beneath the coke-dusted neon moon to drugs and sex in the infamous unisex restrooms to the outrageous money-skimming activities taking place in the office of the studio's flamboyant co-owner Steve Rubell. Author Anthony Haden-Guest was there on opening night in 1977 and over the next decade spent many late nights and early mornings basking in the strobe-lit wonder. But The Last Party is much more than a fascinating account of the scandals, celebrities, crimes, and extreme excesses encouraged within the notorious Manhattan nightspot. Haden-Guest brings an entire era of big-city glitz and unapologetic hedonism to breathtaking life, recalling a vibrant New York night world at once exhilarating and dangerous before the terrible, sobering dawn of the age of AIDS.
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