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... Jones’s “Feel Up” and “Pull Up to the Bumper.” Although Levan enjoyed a remarkably low profile in the city and no national profile to speak of, influential figures from the art-punk and hip hop scenes began to head to the Garage to hear him play. Larry Levan Michael de Benedictus the Peech Boys...

... The Loft David Mancuso Paradise Garage Michael Brody Larry Levan ...

... after-hours venues Paradise Garage the Loft Larry Levan Michael Brody David Morales ...

... Running since 1970, David Mancuso’s Loft sailed through the backlash against disco unscathed. After all, Mancuso had never restricted his selections to disco, plus his capacity crowd viewed Saturday nights as the highlight of their week. Meanwhile the Paradise Garage, opened by Michael Brody...

..., with the official target of criminal activity a chimera. The analysis resonated as the local neighborhood association applied pressure on Michael Brody to close the Paradise Garage. Aware that the heating up of the real estate market made his eviction inevitable, David Mancuso began his own search for a new...

... to attract a crowd of 1,800 on Fridays and 2,800 on Saturdays, with Italian and Latin dancers entering into rivalrous yet friendly competition. Elsewhere, Bruce Forest took over from Tee Scott at Better Days, while the Paradise Garage and the Loft fine-tuned their setups. Garage sound engineer Richard Long...

... Running since 1970, David Mancuso’s Loft sailed through the backlash against disco unscathed. After all, Mancuso had never restricted his selections to disco, plus his capacity crowd viewed Saturday nights as the highlight of their week. Meanwhile the Paradise Garage, opened by Michael Brody...

... the art-punk and hip hop scenes began to head to the Garage to hear him play. Larry Levan Michael de Benedictus the Peech Boys “Don’t Make Me Wait ” Gwen Guthrie Tom Silverman teamed up with Bambaataa to map out the record that became “Planet Rock” and called in Arthur Baker to produce...

... of criminal activity a chimera. The analysis resonated as the local neighborhood association applied pressure on Michael Brody to close the Paradise Garage. Aware that the heating up of the real estate market made his eviction inevitable, David Mancuso began his own search for a new location in a less moneyed...

... genres that may or may not be imaginary: “proto-Eurodisco bongo-rock, German reggae, danceable prog, hair-extension metal, Gregorian garage, boogie-oogied country, stoner glam, industrial bubblegum” and the like. Music criticism Music genres Popular music ...

... and that continue to shape popular memory: the Continental Baths, the Mineshaft and Anvil sex clubs, and the Paradise Garage and Saint discos. These clubs expanded the scale of gay venues and loomed even larger in legend. During the first decade of the AIDS crisis, they also became sites for attention to the lives...

... Uhuru, Gregory Isaacs, and Pablo Moses along with the conventional rock of u2 and Steve Winwood) with the mongrel (the dub-vocoder-electronics of Set the Tone and Grace Jones’s third Compass Point album, Living My Life ). Blackwell also started to head to the Paradise Garage and, impressed by Levan...

... of 1,800 on Fridays and 2,800 on Saturdays, with Italian and Latin dancers entering into rivalrous yet friendly competition. Elsewhere, Bruce Forest took over from Tee Scott at Better Days, while the Paradise Garage and the Loft fine-tuned their setups. Garage sound engineer Richard Long began to receive...

... numbers of gay men as “Saint’s disease.” The Gay Men’s Health Crisis held a fundraising benefit at Paradise Garage on Thursday 8 April. Activist Larry Kramer grasped that the disease required a governmental response but found his efforts to jolt Ed Koch into action frustrated by Herb Rickman, the mayor’s...

... and that continue to shape popular memory: the Continental Baths, the Mineshaft and Anvil sex clubs, and the Paradise Garage and Saint discos. These clubs expanded the scale of gay venues and loomed even larger in legend. During the first decade of the AIDS crisis, they also became sites for attention to the lives...