The Last Party: Life and Times of Studio 54 - Softcover

Haden-Guest, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0688160980 ISBN 13: 9780688160982

Publisher: William Morrow, 1998

Synopsis

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

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Studio 54 was the icon of excess--a place where Andy, Mick, Bianca, and Elton lounged in the VIP section while patrons did drugs in the fabled unisex bathroom, and wannabes waiting for hours outside hoped to catch the eye of the nineteen-year-old doorman who was, for a brief moment, the ultimate gatekeeper of cool.

The Last Party is the story not just of Studio 54 but of the whole Nightworld, vividly recalled by a writer and reveler who was there on opening night and on many, many nights thereafter. Anthony Haden-Guest takes us past the velvet rope, down onto the pounding dance floor, up into the polymorphously perverse balcony, and into owner Steve Rubell's office, where millions of dollars were surreptitiously skimmed from the golden goose. Vibrant, shocking, nonstop, and revealing, The Last Party is as packed with sparkle, scandal, and celebrity as Studio 54 itself.

Synopsis:

Studio 54 was the epicentre of disco culture and pre-AIDS debauchery. Haden-Guest probes the seamy under side of the club, including the drugs, the deaths and the co rruption that eventually shuttered Studio 54. '

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0688160980
• ISBN 13: 9780688160982
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 466