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There was a place where virtually all the themes and energies of the seventies - disco, the cult of celebrity, the coke and the ludes, the glam and the glitter, the pre-AIDS sexual abandon, the emergence of gay culture, newly uninhibited women, and the general air of pre-fin de siecle debauchery - were played out with maximum flamboyance. It was a place that epitomized an era and exemplified the zeitgeist. That place was Studio 54.
No one is better suited to chronicle the Studio story than Anthony Haden-Guest. He has re-created the scene and rendered the action in vivid detail from his personal experiences and intimacy with the key players: the owners, bartenders, and bouncers; the celebs and the dealers; the divas, DJs and doormen; even the prosecutor who busted the owners Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager for tax evasion.
The Last Party is more than a biography of one place. It also tells the story of Nightworld, a realm spawned by Studio 54, comprising past and present clubs. Nightlords, and nightpeople, their doings and their secrets, which is still unfolding and getting darker all the time. Haden-Guest ends with in-depth interviews with beleaguered club-lord Peter Gatien and attended the last party of Club Kid/murder suspect Michael Alig.
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Nightclubs, Popular culture, Social life and customs, Socialites, Studio 54 (Nightclub), Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.), Discotheques, New York Times reviewed, Manners and customs, Subkultur, Nachtleben, Music-halls, Popular culture, new york (state), new york, New york (n.y.), social life and customs, Celebrities, Music-halls (variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.), new york (state), new yorkPlaces
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Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, and the Culture of the Night
2015, Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
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The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, and the Culture of the Night
Dec 08, 2009, It Books
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The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, and the Culture of the Night
May 1998, Harper Perennial
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The last party: Studio 54, disco, and the culture of the night
1997, William Morrow
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