NEW YORK BACK THEN

«Just as CBGBs and Max's had spawned stars of the seventies and early eighties like Blondie, Talking Heads and Television
, now the now places to be seen at were Dancetaria, The Roxy and the Mudd Club. The british singer Sade worked behind the bar of the Dancetaria, while the graffiti artist Keith Haring, whose paintings would sell in the future for hundreds of thousands of dollars, was a coatcheck boy there, sleeping on subway trains by day and working in the club at night. On any one night the place would be filled with emerging artists and musicians; the Bastie Boys, LL Cool, Grandmaster Flash, and makeup artist Debie Mazar could be found dancing, drinking, and trying to get noticed. Congregating over at the Mudd Club were black graffiti artists like Michael Stewart, Lenny MgGurr )aka Futura 2000) Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose tag or signature «SAMO» shorthand for same old bullshit, would one day see his art worth millions, and rap artist Fred Brathwaite (aka Fab Five Freddy)

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