Nocturnal Admissions
Behind the Scenes at Tunnel, Limelight, Avalon, and Other Legendary Nightclubs
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- 18,99 €
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- 18,99 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
Steve Adelman’s humorous and engaging memoir reflects on his years as the director of some of the world’s most popular nightclubs, including the Roxy, Limelight, Tunnel, and Palladium in the heyday of clubs in New York City during the 1980s and 1990s, followed by Avalon (Boston, Hollywood, and Singapore locations), and the New Daisy Theatre in Memphis. Nocturnal Admissions is a timely, nonconventional look at one of pop culture’s most outwardly glamorous, yet misunderstood industries, bringing the reader backstage into the world of nightlife at its highest level.
Wearing the multiple hats of ringmaster, entrepreneur, guidance counselor, multimillion-dollar dealmaker, and music soothsayer, Adelman chronicles an improbable journey from small town to big city, filled with a cast of characters he could never have imagined: People named Hedda Lettuce, Jenetalia, Maxi Min, Jiggy, who collide with and around the likes of Jack Nicholson, Bruce Willis, Sir Richard Branson, Leonardo DiCaprio, RuPaul, Rudy Giuliani, and Snoop Dogg, among many, many others.
Navigating city crackdowns, crazed partners, and cultural differences, Adelman relates how he watched his Nana out-dance an ex-NFL lineman, was chastised by Bob Dylan, launched the EDM musical movement, helped created the “mash up” with Perry Farrell, butted heads with Jerry Falwell, rang in the New Year with Matt Damon’s mother, leveraged porn star Jenna Jameson, relied on advice from felons, almost pancaked Prince, and built the world’s most lavish nightclub.
Nocturnal Admissions is a hilarious, adrenaline-filled ride through the peak decades of the world's most famous nightclubs and nightlife scenes.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A world "unbound by the restrictions... of daytime responsibilities" comes to exuberant life in Adelman's debut, a chronicling of his decades-long tenure in the nightclub scene. Determined to one day recreate his own version of "Ricky's Tropicana Club" in I Love Lucy, Adelman left his childhood home in Michigan's suburbs for N.Y.C. in the mid-1980s. By the early '90s, he was the 30-something director of five of Manhattan's largest nightclubs, including the legendary Roxy and the Limelight; in the next 10 years, he'd open clubs in Boston, Hollywood, and Singapore. In stories that pulsate like an EDM track, Adelman gives readers VIP access to that glitzy bygone era's swirling parties littered with drugs and alcohol. Along the way, he details the "controlled process" of maniacal publicity stunts—fueled by the fascinating symbiotic relationship of celebrities and club promoters who manipulated the press—and offers an entertaining who's who of club-going stars, from RuPaul to a "recently divorced" Donald Trump, who'd "turn up with a young model type, then call it in himself to the tabloids." While the New York club scene crumbled under city crackdowns throughout the aughts, Adelman concludes on an optimistic note, claiming that a new golden age of nightlife—"the perfect storm of pent-up demand meeting a changing society"—is approaching. Partygoers will be dazzled.
