Circa duecento nottambuli, in vena di festeggiamenti, procedono verso il 674 della Broadway, situato proprio a nord di Houston street.
Il quartiere deserto, le piccole botteghe di artigiani o hanno chiuso o si sono trasferite fuori Manhattan, e le strade lastricate e gli edifici senza luce sembrano un set cinematografico abbandonato.
Ma c e del movimento di fronte al n. 674, e gi prima di mezzanotte si cominciata a formare una lunga coda davanti all imponente magazzino.
Le persone sono accolte all ingresso dell edificio e gli viene chiesto di mostrare l invito, dopodich salgono la scala che li porta al primo piano dove un altro addetto controlla il loro nome, infine salgono al secondo e lasciano la loro offerta di due dollari.
Sono finalmente entrati al Loft !!!
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Opening with David Mancuso's seminal "Love Saves the Day" Valentine's party, Tim Lawrence tells the definitive story of American dance music culture in the 1970s--from its subterranean roots in NoHo and Hell's Kitchen to its gaudy blossoming in midtown Manhattan to its wildfire transmission through America's suburbs and urban hotspots such as Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Newark, and Miami. Tales of nocturnal journeys, radical music making, and polymorphous sexuality flow through the arteries of "Love Saves the Day" like hot liquid vinyl. They are interspersed with a detailed examination of the era's most powerful djs, the venues in which they played, and the records they loved to spin--as well as the labels, musicians, vocalists, producers, remixers, party promoters, journalists, and dance crowds that fueled dance music's tireless engine. "Love Saves the Day" includes material from over three hundred original interviews with the scene's most influential players, including David Mancuso, Nicky Siano, Tom Moulton, Loleatta Holloway, Giorgio Moroder, Francis Grasso, Frankie Knuckles, and Earl Young. It incorporates more than twenty special dj discographies--listing the favorite records of the most important spinners of the disco decade--and a more general discographycataloging some six hundred releases. "Love Saves the Day" also contains a unique collection of more than seventy rare photos. |
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JONATHAN MEYER
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