Title: The last party
First published: 1997
Description: There was a place where virtually all the themes and energies of the seventies - disco, the cult of celebrity, the coke and the ludes, the glam and the glitter, the pre-AIDS sexual abandon, the emergence of gay culture, newly uninhibited women, and the general air of pre-fin de siecle debauchery - were played out with maximum flamboyance. It was a place that epitomized an era and exemplified the zeitgeist. That place was Studio 54.

No one is better suited to chronicle the Studio story than Anthony Haden-Guest. He has re-created the scene and rendered the action in vivid detail from his personal experiences and intimacy with the key players: the owners, bartenders, and bouncers; the celebs and the dealers; the divas, DJs and doormen; even the prosecutor who busted the owners Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager for tax evasion.

The Last Party is more than a biography of one place. It also tells the story of Nightworld, a realm spawned by Studio 54, comprising past and present clubs. Nightlords, and nightpeople, their doings and their secrets, which is still unfolding and getting darker all the time. Haden-Guest ends with in-depth interviews with beleaguered club-lord Peter Gatien and attended the last party of Club Kid/murder suspect Michael Alig.
Subjects: Nightclubs, Popular culture, Social life and customs, Socialites, Studio 54 (Nightclub), Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.), Discotheques, New York Times reviewed, Manners and customs, Subkultur, Nachtleben, Music-halls, Popular culture, new york (state), new york, New york (n.y.), social life and customs, Celebrities, Music-halls (variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.), new york (state), new york
Places: New York, New York (N.Y.), New York (State)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: F128.52 .H253 1997