Peter Gatien on his book The Club King: My Rise, Reign, and Fall in New York Nightlife (4/2/20)
In the 1980s and ‘90s the large-scale nightclubs Limelight, Tunnel, Club USA, and Palladium dominated New York City’s entertainment scene, their influences reverberating around the world. With a career in club promotion and ownership spanning four decades, it was Peter Gatien who channeled his lessons from other cities to become the enigmatic ruler of the city's party scene. But as Peter describes in his new book “The Club King: My Rise, Reign, and Fall in New York Nightlife,” while he and his team ramped up their vision to new hedonistic heights, newly anointed mayor Rudolph Giuliani was leading a major shift in the city and Peter’s empire became a target of the administration. Join us for the story of the soaring heights of Manhattan nightlife and its ultimate demise told by someone at the center of it all, Peter Gatien, in this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI