Upcoming book on NYC nightlife -- "Confessions from the Velvet Ropes: The Glamorous, Grueling Life of Thomas Onorato, New York's Top Club Doorman" by Glenn Belverio (St. Martin's Press) -- appearance adventure about Madonna and a contour of the aboriginal attendant from Studio 54, Marc Benecke.
New York, NY -- It was appear this anniversary that Madonna will be recreating gluttonous scenes from the belled New York nightclub, Studio 54, in a date set for her accessible tour.
This is not her aboriginal affiliation to the allegorical discothèque. In 1983, Madonna performed at Studio 54 at a affair for the Italian appearance house, Fiorucci. Surveying the dancefloor with beginning abecedarian David Alan Grier, Ms. Ciccone remarked: “You and me are traveling to be big stars, baby, and leave these added suckers in the dust.”
This summer, in the bosom of Madonna’s tour, St. Martin’s Press will absolution "Confessions from the Velvet Ropes: The Glamorous, Grueling Life of Thomas Onorato, New York’s Top Club Doorman" by Glenn Belverio. Among the book’s accumulating of agrarian and absorbing tales is the adventure of the night Madonna fabricated a abruptness DJ actualization at the absolute NY hipster club, MisShapes.
“I was a bit afflictive apropos to Madonna as ‘Madonna’,” says Onorato, the attendant to the baking club. “But I begin out that night, to my relief, that her accompany just accredit to her as ‘M’. I was aloft Catholic so calling her Madonna just fabricated me feel absolutely accusable in that bad way, like if your mom catches you masturbating.”
"Confessions from the Velvet Ropes" aswell appearance an absolute account with Studio 54’s original—and elusive—guardian of the clover ropes, Marc Benecke. In the book, Benecke debunks some of the acclaimed club’s a lot of belled myths. Did Benecke absolutely abjure Cher access to the club? Did a man absolutely die if he approved to bastard into the club by sliding down an airshaft? Benecke sets the almanac beeline on these abiding account tidbits and more.
“The accessory comedy of Madonna and Studio 54 is absolutely what the ability needs appropriate now,” says Confessions author, Glenn Belverio. “Many of the kids who go out to clubs today are athirst for data about nightlife’s history—and who bigger to accord them a assignment in nightclubbing than Madonna?”
"Confessions from the Velvet Ropes"—which will be appear on July 11th—features added moments from NY’s club and appearance scenes, such as the night Adrien Brody’s altogether affair was bombarded with eggs by angered neighbors and the near-riots and threats of abandon at a Kimora Lee Simmons’ appearance show.
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