Clubland Confidential

by Frank Owen (Author)

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  Paperback
  2004

  $4.15

  'Owen writes fast and tough, like a cop flick voice-over - if anything, Clubland Confidential is Robin Moore's The French Connection remixed for the chemical generation ' The Guardian Clubland Confidential is the true story of the rise and fall of a decadent nocturnal empire that stretched over several American cities and spawned its own subculture of celebrities and wannabes. Journalist, Frank Owen spent nearly a decade inside the nightclubs of the 1990s - an era when disco gave way to more unsettling dance music, cocaine was supplanted by Ecstacy and heroin, 'clubkids' mingled with bully boys, transvestites danced with stockbrokers, and celebrities looked on. But as the drugs got out of control, their world became murkier and slowly began to implode. As clubland decadence turned to darkness, its self-publicised king, Michael Alig, committed one of the most notorious crimes of New York's recent history - the violent murder of Angel Melendez. With his friends fleeing for cover, a tangled web of mafia-related crimes begins to emerge and the secrets of New York nightlife are dragged through the courts.

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $5.74

  Clubland Confidential is a gloriously scandalous read, chronicling the rise and fall of America's nightclubs over the last ten years. Centred around the Limelight club in New York and the notorious 'Angel' murder, the colourful cast includes: - Chris Paciello: a Mafioso-turned-glamour boy, who before he was arrested for murder, dated Madonna and Jennifer Lopez - and Michael Alig: a professional party freak who created a youth movement in his own image, then ensured his tabloid immortality by dismembering one of his followers. Author Frank Owen has immersed himself in their world and befriended all the key characters. If Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil had been based at an Ecstasy rave, it would have looked something like this...