MY LIFE IN THE PARADISE GARAGE-C
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.83 (694 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0967899400 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 495 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Recommended for libraries with large gay studies and pop music collections.Richard J. From Library Journal "Nothing happens by accident," Cheren repeats like a mantra in unwitting tribute to his own survival. This is the stuff of two decades of gay history, but Cheren (with Rotello) redeems the familiar material with his unsparing candor and forthright energy. Violette, Special Libs. The "godfather of disco" is one of the few left who remembers the innocent yet repressed pre-Stonewall New York of the 1960s, the orgiastic heyday of disco of the Seventies, and the deluge of AIDS that swept it away in the Eighties. . Cataloguing, Victoria, BCCopyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. Despite a tendency to tel
Set against the passionate love affair of two men who would both eventually rate as two of New York City's greatest style and scene makers, the story traces the hypnotic birth of disco, the Garage inspired technical innovations that changed the music industry, the erotic life of gay New York and the devastating rise of AIDS. Keep on Dancin' gives hundreds of private recollections from the people who were there: Tom Moulton, Francois Kevorkian, Grace Jones, Thelma Houston, Frankie Knuckles, Junior Vasquez and others help recreate the moment when love was the message.. What started out as a whisper of an idea between lovers - Garage owner Michael Brody and financial backer Mel Cheren - eventually culminated into a dance palace that existed for more than a dec
"I really liked this book" according to DonMac. I thought this book was great. I live in Boston and have spent a considerable time going back and forth to New York over the years. I think I spent most weekends there in the mid-80's. Anyway, I moved in a different crowd form Mel's Boston crew, but I knew some of them casually. His appendix held a few surprises for me as to what happened to some of them.The book is a great gay history of that period in New York. It brought back many memories of both happy and s. Keeping it Real Kym Murphy As a birthday gift to myself I invested in the book My Life and the Paradise Garage: Keep on Dancing-as a summer read, along with some club classics. What a gift! The book was informative, educational, and sure enough enlightening from the first, to the last page. All of the ole Loft/Paradise Garage heads should have a copy. This book simply explored the pure essence of the disco-happy people era. I could not have invested in the book and not any of the music. I. A Customer said Mixed feelings. (Please read the *whole* review!). I must admit that I have very mixed feelings about this book.While reading it, I never thought it was that great a read, and still now I feel the writing style is a bit simple, and also that there are a few anecdotes too many where the author pats his own back. No doubt has Mel Cheren had quite a bit of an impact on the disco/dance scene, but he should have left the praising of his persona to other peopleOn the other hand, I feel there are some VERY IMPORTANT po