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Paradise Garage, also known as "the Garage" [1] [2] or the "Gay-rage", [3] [4] [5] was a New York City discotheque notable in the history of dance and pop music, as well as LGBT and nightclub cultures.
L'Amour spawned two spinoff rock clubs in the mid-1980s: L'Amour East in Queens and L'Amour Far East on Long Island. L'Amour East (also known as “The Edge” for some years) (DNZ Korean supermarket, currently), located on Queens Boulevard (77-00, specifically) in Elmhurst, Queens (Newtown, formerly), south Queens, New York City, NY 11373, existed for several years (circa 1983–1988), riding ...
Lawrence Philpot (July 20, 1954 – November 8, 1992), [3] known as Larry Levan (/ l ə ˈ v æ n / lə-VAN), was an American DJ best known for his decade-long residency at the New York City night club Paradise Garage, which has been described as the prototype of the modern dance club.
The next year, Billboard rival publication Record World was the first to compile a dance chart which incorporated club play on a national level. Billboard statistician Joel Whitburn has since "adopted" Record World s chart data from the weeks between March 29, 1975, and August 21, 1976, into Billboard s club play history.
Richard Long (1933–1986) was an American sound designer. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He is known as the preeminent sound designer of the disco era, having installed systems at clubs including Paradise Garage , Dorian Gray , Studio 54 , City Hall, Max's Kansas City and Roxy Roller Rink.
The story of Casablanca Records has been told by many — in books, articles and by the larger-than-life characters who lived through the salad days of mid- to late-1970s rock and disco music.
Nearly 50 years ago, Gloria Gaynor released “I Will Survive,” the first disco song to top the Billboard charts and the only one to be awarded a Grammy for best disco recording. Then, 40 years ...
Nu-disco is a 21st-century dance music genre associated with the renewed interest in 1970s and early 1980s disco, [132] mid-1980s Italo disco, and the synthesizer-heavy Euro disco aesthetics. [133] The moniker appeared in print as early as 2002, and by mid-2008 was used by record shops such as the online retailers Juno and Beatport. [ 134 ]