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A riveting memoir of disco-era nightlife and the outrageous goings-on behind the doors of NY City's most well-known and exclusive nightclub. Inside the disco days and nights and times of NEW YORK in the 1970s and 1980s, the location to be was Studio room 54. Andy Warhol, Liza Minnelli, and Bianca Jagger were on the list of nightly range of A-list movie star regulars consorting with New York's young, wild, and beautiful. Studio room 54 was a place where next to nothing was taboo, from nonstop dancing and drinking under the coke-dusted neon moon to drugs and gender in the infamous unisex restrooms to the outrageous money-skimming activities occurring in the office of the studio's flamboyant co-owner, Steve Rubell. Creator Anthony Haden-Guest was there on opening night in 1977 and over the next decade put in many late times and early on mornings basking in the strobe-lit marvel. But The Last Party is a lot greater than a fascinating accounts of the scandals, celebrities, offences, and extreme excesses motivated within the notorious Manhattan nightspot. Haden-Guest brings a whole age of big-city glitz and unapologetic hedonism to breathtaking life, recalling a captivating New York night world at once exhilarating and dangerous prior to the horrendous, sobering dawn of age AIDS.
