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Sunday, October 25th, 2020

In The Limelight : NY’s Club Life in the 90’s

Sushi, Richie Rich, and Ernie Glam at the Tunnel, 1995 © 2020 Steve Eichner

 

For most of us who made it to NY’s fabulous LIMELIGHT Club back in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s this excellent new book on club life by Steve Eichner brings back happy memories.

Limelight was situated in a gothic revival brownstone that was once the  Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion. It originally started as a disco and rock club., but In the 1990s, it became a prominent place to hear techno, goth, and industrial music.

The club’s roster of celebrity performers and club-goers read like a veritable who’s who of the perios but  the most infamous of all was  party promoter Michael Alig. He was arrested and later convicted for the killing and dismemberment of Angel Melendez, a drug dealer who frequented the club.

Eichner’s book is a celebration of Limelight  and other clubs back then, such as Palladium and The Tunnel; at the peak of their  success when every night was a party night.

 

In the Limelight: The Visual Ecstasy of NYC Nightlife in the 90s
by Steve Eichner and Gabriel Sanchez
© Prestel Verlag, Munich · London · New York, 2020.

 

 

The Roxy, 1990 © 2020 Steve Eichner

 

Shampoo Room at the Limelight, 1995 © 2020 Steve Eichner

 

Club goers dressed as The Fabulous Wonder Twins at the Roxy, circa 1993 © 2020 Steve Eichner
Club USA, 1993 © 2020 Steve Eichner

 

The Tunnel, 1994 © 2020 Steve Eichner

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