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The Limelight, the Glossary

The Limelight was a chain of nightclubs owned and operated by Peter Gatien.^[1]

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Ace Frehley

Paul Daniel "Ace" Frehley (born April 27, 1951) is an American musician who was the original lead guitarist, occasional lead vocalist and founding member of the rock band Kiss.

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Ali MacGraw

Elizabeth Alice MacGraw (born April 1, 1939) is an American actress.

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Alice in Chains

Alice in Chains (often abbreviated as AIC) is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1987.

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Amanda Lepore

Amanda Lepore is an American model, singer, and performance artist.

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And Also the Trees

And Also the Trees are an English rock band, formed in 1979 in Inkberrow, Worcestershire.

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Andre Melendez

Andre Melendez (May 1, 1971 – March 17, 1996) was a member of the Club Kids and drug dealer who lived and worked in New York City.

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Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol (born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director and producer.

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Anita Bryant

Anita Jane Bryant (born March 25, 1940) is an American singer and anti-gay activist.

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Anita Morris

Anita Rose Morris (March 14, 1943 – March 2, 1994) was an American actress, singer and dancer.

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Aphex Twin

Richard David James (born 18 August 1971), known professionally as Aphex Twin, is a British musician, record producer, composer and DJ.

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Aphrodite (musician)

Gavin King, better known by his stage name Aphrodite, is a British jungle and drum and bass DJ/producer on the Urban Takeover label.

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Aron "Bugsy" Siegel (born December 9, 1962) is a film producer, film location sound recordist, TV producer, record producer, remixer, and club DJ/VJ considered one of the most influential in the southern United States since the early 1980s.

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Atlanta

Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Barbara Tucker

Barbara Tucker (born March 19, 1967), is an American house and soul singer, songwriter and choreographer born in Brooklyn, New York, US.

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Benjamin Brafman

Benjamin Brafman (born July 21, 1948) is an American criminal defense attorney and founder of the Manhattan-based law firm Brafman & Associates.

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Billy Corben

William Cohen (born 1978), better known by the stage name Billy Corben, is an American documentary film director.

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Black Label Society

Black Label Society is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1998 by guitarist/singer Zakk Wylde.

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Black Uhuru

Black Uhuru is a Jamaican reggae group formed in 1972, initially as Uhuru (Swahili for 'freedom').

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Boy George

George Alan O'Dowd (born 14 June 1961), known professionally as Boy George, is an English singer, songwriter, DJ, and the lead singer of the pop band Culture Club.

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Britney Spears

Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American singer.

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Burt Reynolds

Burton Leon Reynolds Jr. (February 11, 1936 – September 6, 2018) was an American actor and icon of 1970s American popular culture.

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Cab Calloway

Cabell Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer and bandleader.

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Cabaret Voltaire (band)

Cabaret Voltaire were an English music group formed in Sheffield in 1973 and initially composed of Stephen Mallinder, Richard H. Kirk, and Chris Watson.

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Cambridge Circus, London

Cambridge Circus is the partly pedestrianised intersection where Shaftesbury Avenue crosses Charing Cross Road on the eastern edge of Soho, central London.

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Center Stage (Atlanta)

Center Stage is a mid-sized concert complex comprising three separate venues located in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Cheap Trick

Cheap Trick is an American rock band from Rockford, Illinois, formed in 1973 by guitarist Rick Nielsen, bassist Tom Petersson, lead vocalist Robin Zander and drummer Bun E. Carlos.

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Cherry Vanilla

Cherry Vanilla (born Kathleen Dorritie; October 16, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter, publicist, and actress.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Chicago History Museum

Chicago History Museum is the museum of the Chicago Historical Society (CHS).

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Chris Brown

Christopher Maurice Brown (born May 5, 1989) is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actor.

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Chuck Berry

Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was an American singer, guitarist and songwriter who pioneered rock and roll.

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Church of the Holy Communion and Buildings

The Church of the Holy Communion and Buildings are historic Episcopal church buildings at 656–662 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) at West 20th Street in the Flatiron District of Manhattan, New York City.

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Clipse

Clipse, also known as the Clipse, is an American hip hop duo, mainly active from 1994 to 2010.

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Cocaine

Cocaine (from, from, ultimately from Quechua: kúka) is a tropane alkaloid that acts as a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant.

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Comic book

A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes.

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Corrosion of Conformity

Corrosion of Conformity (also known as C.O.C.) is an American heavy metal band from Raleigh, North Carolina, formed in 1982.

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Crystal Waters

Crystal Waters (born November 19, 1961) is an American house and dance music singer and songwriter, best known for her 1990s dance hits "Gypsy Woman", "100% Pure Love", and 2007's "Destination Calabria" with Alex Gaudino.

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Cyndi Lauper

Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper (born June 22, 1953) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and activist.

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David Johansen

David Roger Johansen (sometimes spelled David Jo Hansen; born January 9, 1950) is an American singer, songwriter and actor.

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Dead or Alive (band)

Dead or Alive were an English pop band who released seven studio albums from 1984 to 2000.

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Debbie Harry

Deborah Ann Harry (born Angela Trimble; July 1, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter and actress, best known as the lead vocalist of the band Blondie.

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Deconsecration

Deconsecration, also referred to as decommissioning or secularization (a term also used for confiscation of church property), is the removal of a religious blessing from something that had been previously consecrated for religious use.

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Deee-Lite

Deee-Lite was an American house and dance music group formed in New York City.

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Disco

Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the late 1960s from the United States' urban nightlife scene.

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DragonForce

DragonForce are a British power metal band from London.

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Dream Theater

Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band formed in 1985 in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Drug rehabilitation

Drug rehabilitation is the process of medical or psychotherapeutic treatment for dependency on psychoactive substances such as alcohol, prescription drugs, and street drugs such as cannabis, cocaine, heroin, and amphetamines.

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Emanuel Xavier

Emanuel Xavier (born May 3, 1970), is an American poet, spoken word artist, author, editor, and LGBTQ activist born and raised in the Bushwick area of Brooklyn.

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Episcopal Church (United States)

The Episcopal Church, officially the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (PECUSA), is a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion based in the United States with additional dioceses elsewhere.

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Evelyn Thomas

Ellen Lucille "Evelyn" Thomas (August 22, 1953 – July 21, 2024) was an American singer from Chicago, Illinois, best known for the hi-NRG dance hits "High Energy", "Masquerade", "Standing at the Crossroads", "Reflections", and "Weak Spot".

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Fabolous

John David Jackson (born November 18, 1977), better known by his stage name Fabolous, is an American rapper.

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Fat Joe

Joseph Antonio Cartagena (born August 19, 1970), better known by his stage name Fat Joe, is an American rapper.

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Fishbone

Fishbone is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California.

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Flunitrazepam

Flunitrazepam, sold under the brand name Rohypnol among others, is a benzodiazepine used to treat severe insomnia and assist with anesthesia.

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Former Chicago Historical Society Building

The Former Chicago Historical Society Building is a historic landmark located at 632 N. Dearborn Street on the northwest corner of Dearborn and Ontario streets near downtown Chicago.

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Gene Simmons

Gene Simmons (born Chaim Witz; חיים ויץ; born August 25, 1949) is an American musician.

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Gloria Estefan

Gloria María Milagrosa Estefan (née Fajardo García; born 1 September 1957) is a Cuban-American singer, actress, and businesswoman.

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Gothic Revival architecture

Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half of the 19th century, mostly in England.

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Gothic rock

Gothic rock (also called goth rock or simply goth) is a style of rock music that emerged from post-punk in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s.

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Grace Jones

Grace Beverly Jones (born 19 May 1948) is a Jamaican-American singer, songwriter, model and actress.

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Guns N' Roses

Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in March 1985 when local bands Hollywood Rose and L.A. Guns merged.

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Hal Ashby

William Hal Ashby (September 2, 1929 – December 27, 1988) was an American film director and editor.

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Hallandale Beach, Florida

Hallandale Beach (formerly known simply as Hallandale) is a city in southern Broward County, Florida, United States.

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Hardly Working

Hardly Working is a 1980 American comedy film directed by, co-written by and starring Jerry Lewis and Susan Oliver, filmed in 1979, released in Europe in 1980 and then in the United States on April 3, 1981 through 20th Century Fox.

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Hawkwind

Hawkwind are an English rock band known as one of the earliest space rock groups.

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Holly Woodlawn

Holly Woodlawn (October 26, 1946 – December 6, 2015) was a transgender American actress and Warhol superstar who appeared in the films Trash (1970) and Women in Revolt (1971).

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Illegal drug trade

The illegal drug trade, drug trafficking, or narcotrafficking is a global black market dedicated to the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of prohibited drugs.

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IMDb

IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.

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Industrial music

Industrial music is a genre of music that draws on harsh, mechanical, transgressive, or provocative sounds and themes.

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Interpol (band)

Interpol is an American rock band from Manhattan, New York.

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Interview (magazine)

Interview is an American magazine founded in late 1969 by artist Andy Warhol and British journalist John Wilcock.

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James St. James

James St.

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Jane's Addiction

Jane's Addiction is an American rock band from Los Angeles, formed in 1985.

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Jayne County

Jayne County (born Wayne Rogers, July 13, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, actress and record producer whose career has spanned six decades.

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Jean Shepherd

Jean Parker "Shep" Shepherd Jr. (July 26, 1921 – October 16, 1999) was an American storyteller, humorist, radio and TV personality, writer, and actor.

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Jermaine Jackson

Jermaine La Jaune Jackson (born December 11, 1954) is an American singer, songwriter and bassist.

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Jerry Lewis

Jerry Lewis (born Joseph Levitch; March 16, 1926 – August 20, 2017) was an American comedian, actor, singer, humanitarian and entertainer, who was famously nicknamed "The King of Comedy" throughout the United States.

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Jesus Jones

Jesus Jones are a British alternative rock band from Bradford-on-Avon in Wiltshire, formed in late 1988, who continue to record and perform, as of 2024.

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Jim Jones (rapper)

Joseph Guillermo Jones II (born July 15, 1976), better known by his stage name Jim Jones (or Jimmy Jones), is an American rapper and record executive.

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Joe Satriani

Joseph Satriani (born July 15, 1956)Prato, Greg.

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John Benitez

John Benitez (born November 7, 1957), also known as Jellybean, is an American musician, songwriter, DJ, remixer, and music producer.

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Johnny Thunders

John Anthony Genzale (July 15, 1952 – April 23, 1991), known professionally as Johnny Thunders, was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Jon Pareles

Jon Pareles (born October 25, 1953) is an American journalist who is the chief popular music critic in the arts section of The New York Times.

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Karen Finley

Karen Finley (born 1956) is an American performance artist, musician, poet, and educator.

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Ketamine

Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic used medically for induction and maintenance of anesthesia.

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Kroger

The Kroger Company, or simply Kroger, is an American retail company that operates (either directly or through its subsidiaries) supermarkets and multi-department stores throughout the United States.

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Lady Bunny

Lady Bunny, originally known as "Bunny Hickory Dickory Dock" (born Jon Ingle, August 13, 1962), is an American drag queen, nightclub DJ, actor, comedian, and event organizer.

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Larry Tee

Larry Tee (born October 12, 1959) is a Berlin-based DJ, club promoter, and music producer who curated the electroclash scene in New York in the early 2000s, and helped launch the careers of such artists as RuPaul, Scissor Sisters, Fischerspooner, Peaches, W.I.T., and Avenue D. He has written songs for and collaborated with Afrojack, Shontelle, Princess Superstar, Santigold, RuPaul, Sean Garrett, Steve Aoki, and Amanda Lepore.

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Laurie Anderson

Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson (born June 5, 1947) is an American avant-garde artist, musician and filmmaker whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects.

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Lee Hazlewood

Barton Lee Hazlewood (July 9, 1929 – August 4, 2007) was an American country and pop singer, songwriter, and record producer, most widely known for his work with guitarist Duane Eddy during the late 1950s and singer Nancy Sinatra in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Leigh Bowery

Leigh Bowery (26 March 1961 – 31 December 1994) was an Australian performance artist, club promoter, and fashion designer.

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Limelight (2011 film)

Limelight is a 2011 documentary film that charts the rise and fall of New York City club king Peter Gatien.

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List of Miami Vice episodes

The following is an episode list for the 1980s undercover cop television series Miami Vice.

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Liz Torres

Elizabeth Larrieu Torres (born September 27, 1947) is an American actress, singer, and comedian.

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Liza Minnelli

Liza May Minnelli (born March 12, 1946) is an American actress, singer, dancer, and choreographer.

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Lloyd (singer)

Lloyd Polite Jr. (born January 3, 1986) is an American R&B singer.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Lords of Acid

Lords of Acid is a Belgian/American electronic dance music (EDM) group led by musician Praga Khan.

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Lorin Morgan-Richards

Lorin Morgan-Richards (born February 16, 1975) is an American author, illustrator, and songwriter, primarily known for his young adult fiction and Gothic Western comedy series The Goodbye Family.

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Lynch Mob (band)

Lynch Mob is an American hard rock band, formed in 1989 by former Dokken guitarist George Lynch, who is the band's only permanent member.

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Magnolia Pictures

Magnolia Pictures LLC is an American independent film distributor and production company, and is a subsidiary of Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner's 2929 Entertainment.

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Mamie Van Doren

Mamie Van Doren (born Joan Lucille Olander; February 6, 1931) is an American actress, singer, model, and sex symbol who rose to prominence in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Manic Street Preachers

Manic Street Preachers, also known simply as the Manics, are a Welsh rock band formed in Blackwood, Caerphilly, in 1986.

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Mantissa (band)

Mantissa were an Australian hard rock band which formed as Killing Time in 1989.

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Margot Day

Margot Day is a singer, flutist, songwriter, and poet.

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Marilyn (singer)

Peter Antony Robinson (born 3 November 1962), better known as Marilyn, is an English singer known for his androgynous appearance.

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Marilyn Manson

Brian Hugh Warner (born January 5, 1969), known professionally as Marilyn Manson, is an American rock musician.

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Mario (singer)

Mario Dewar Barrett (born August 27, 1986), known mononymously as Mario, is an American R&B singer.

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Marvin Hamlisch

Marvin Frederick Hamlisch (June 2, 1944 – August 6, 2012) was an American composer and conductor.

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Mötley Crüe

Mötley Crüe is an American heavy metal band formed in Hollywood, California, in 1981 by bassist Nikki Sixx and drummer Tommy Lee, with guitarist Mick Mars and lead vocalist Vince Neil joining right after.

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MDMA

3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), commonly known as ecstasy (tablet form), and molly or mandy (crystal form), is a potent empathogen–entactogen with stimulant and minor psychedelic properties.

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Meat Beat Manifesto

Meat Beat Manifesto, often shortened as Meat Beat, Manifesto or MBM, is an electronic music group originally consisting of Jack Dangers and Jonny Stephens that was formed in 1987 in Swindon, United Kingdom.

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Miami Vice

Miami Vice is an American crime drama television series created by Anthony Yerkovich and produced by Michael Mann for NBC.

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Michael Alig

Michael Alig (April 29, 1966 – December 24, 2020) was an American club promoter and artist who was convicted of felony manslaughter.

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Michael Douglas

Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and film producer.

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Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist.

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Milli Vanilli

Milli Vanilli was a German R&B music act from Munich.

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Mims (rapper)

Shawn Maurice Mims (born March 22, 1981), known mononymously as Mims (backronym for Music Is My Savior), stylized as MIMS, is an American rapper.

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Missing Persons (band)

Missing Persons is an American rock band founded in 1980 in Los Angeles by guitarist Warren Cuccurullo, vocalist Dale Bozzio (née Consalvi), and drummer Terry Bozzio.

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Morbid Angel

Morbid Angel is an American death metal band based in Tampa, Florida, formed in 1983 by guitarist, primary composer and sole remaining original member Trey Azagthoth, vocalist and bassist Dallas Ward, and drummer Mike Browning.

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Morrissey

Steven Patrick Morrissey (born 22 May 1959), known mononymously as Morrissey, is an English singer and songwriter.

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Motörhead

Motörhead were an English rock band formed in London in 1975 by bassist and lead vocalist Lemmy Kilmister, guitarist Larry Wallis and drummer Lucas Fox.

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Nancy Sinatra

Nancy Sandra Sinatra (born June 8, 1940) is an American singer-songwriter, actress, film producer and author.

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Ne-Yo

Shaffer Chimere Smith (born October 18, 1979), known professionally as Ne-Yo, is an American singer, songwriter, actor, dancer, and record producer.

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New Age

New Age is a range of spiritual or religious practices and beliefs which rapidly grew in Western society during the early 1970s.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Dolls

New York Dolls were an American rock band formed in New York City in 1971.

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Nightclub

A nightclub is a club that is open at night, usually for drinking, dancing and other entertainment.

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Nina Hagen

Catharina "Nina" Hagen (born 11 March 1955) is a German singer, songwriter, and actress.

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Nitzer Ebb

Nitzer Ebb are a British EBM group formed in 1982 by Essex school friends Vaughan "Bon" Harris (programming, synthesizers, drums, vocals), Douglas McCarthy (vocals), and David Gooday (drums).

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Nudeswirl

Nudeswirl was an American alternative and grunge rock band from New Brunswick, New Jersey.

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Odyssey House

Odyssey House is the name of private not-for-profit organization established in 1967 in East Harlem to provide treatment and education for drug and alcohol addiction and victims of child abuse.

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Oliver Chesler

Oliver Chesler (born January 20, 1970), better known by his stage name The Horrorist, is an American electronic music artist from New York City.

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On the Fritz

On the Fritz is the title of the third release and second full-length album by Christian rock singer-songwriter Steve Taylor.

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Ozzy Osbourne

John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne (born 3 December 1948) is an English musician and media personality.

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Pain Teens

Pain Teens was an experimental noise rock band formed in Houston, Texas in 1985 by Scott Ayers and Bliss Blood.

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Palladium (New York City)

The Palladium (originally called the Academy of Music) was a movie theatre, concert hall, and finally a nightclub in New York City. The Limelight and Palladium (New York City) are nightclubs in Manhattan.

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Patti LaBelle

Patricia Louise Holte (born May 24, 1944), known professionally as Patti LaBelle, is an American R&B singer and actress.

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Pearl Jam

Pearl Jam is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1990.

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Peter Gatien

Peter Gatien (born August 8, 1952) is a Canadian club owner and party promoter.

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Peter Murphy (musician)

Peter John Joseph Murphy (born 11 July 1957) is an English singer, songwriter, and musician.

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Pia Zadora

Pia Zadora (born Pia Alfreda Schipani; May 4, 1954) is an American actress and singer.

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Pigface

Pigface is an American industrial rock supergroup formed in 1990 by Martin Atkins and William Rieflin.

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Presbyterianism

Presbyterianism is a Reformed (Calvinist) Protestant tradition named for its form of church government by representative assemblies of elders.

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Pub chain

A pub chain is a group of pubs or bars operating under a unified brand image.

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R. Kelly

Robert Sylvester Kelly (born January 8, 1967), known as R. Kelly, is an American former singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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Rakontur

rakontur is a Miami-based media studio founded by Billy Corben and Alfred Spellman in 2000.

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Randy Jones (singer)

Randolph Edward Jones (born September 13, 1952) is an American disco and pop singer and best known as the cowboy from Village People from 1977 to 1980, and again from 1987 until 1990.

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Rebecca De Mornay

Rebecca De Mornay (born Rebecca Jane Pearch; August 29, 1959) is an American actress.

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Rich Boy

Marece Benjamin Richards (born September 2, 1983), better known by his stage name Rich Boy, is an American rapper from Mobile, Alabama.

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Richard Upjohn

Richard Upjohn (22 January 1802 – 16 August 1878) was a British-American architect who emigrated to the United States and became most famous for his Gothic Revival churches.

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Rick Springfield

Richard Lewis Springthorpe (born 23 August 1949), known professionally as Rick Springfield, is an Australian-American musician and actor.

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Rob Halford

Robert John Arthur Halford (born 25 August 1951) is an English heavy metal singer.

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Robin S.

Robin Stone (born April 27, 1962) is an American singer and songwriter, who scored success in the 1990s with such house music singles as "Show Me Love" (which was her debut single) and "Luv 4 Luv".

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Rock music

Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Rollins Band

Rollins Band was an American rock band formed in Van Nuys, California.

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Roxy Theatre (Atlanta)

The Roxy Theatre was a movie palace in Atlanta, Georgia.

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RuPaul

RuPaul Andre Charles (born November 17, 1960) is an American drag queen, television personality, actor, singer, producer, and writer.

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Sasha (DJ)

Alexander Paul Coe (born 4 September 1969), known professionally as Sasha, is a Welsh DJ and record producer.

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Sexepil

Sexepil is a Hungarian indie-alternative rock band based in Budapest, Hungary.

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Shaftesbury Avenue

Shaftesbury Avenue is a major road in the West End of London, named after The 7th Earl of Shaftesbury.

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Shannon Tweed

Shannon Lee Tweed Simmons (born March 10, 1957) is a Canadian model and actress.

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Sharon Redd

Sharon Redd (October 19, 1945 – May 1, 1992) was an American singer from New York City.

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Sharon Stone

Sharon Vonne Stone (born March 10, 1958) is an American actress, painter and former model.

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Shirley MacLaine

Shirley MacLaine (born Shirley MacLean Beaty on April 24, 1934) is an American actress and author.

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Sixth Avenue

Sixth Avenue, also known as Avenue of the Americas, is a major thoroughfare in New York City's borough of Manhattan, on which traffic runs northbound, or "uptown".

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Sleep (band)

Sleep is an American stoner/doom metal band from San Jose, California.

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Slipknot (band)

Slipknot is an American heavy metal band formed in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1995 by percussionist Shawn Crahan, former vocalist Anders Colsefni and bassist Paul Gray.

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Stas Namin

Anastas Alekseevich Mikoyan, also known professionally as Stas Namin is a Russian rock musician, known as the leader of the popular Soviet music group, Tsvety (lit).

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Steve Taylor

Roland Stephen Taylor (born December 9, 1957) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, music executive, film maker, assistant professor, and actor.

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Strip mall

A strip mall, strip center, strip plaza or simply plaza is a type of shopping center common in North America and Australia where the stores are arranged in a row, with a footpath in front.

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Sun Sentinel

The Sun Sentinel (also known as the South Florida Sun Sentinel, known until 2008 as the Sun-Sentinel, and stylized on its masthead as SunSentinel) is the main daily newspaper of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Broward County, and covers Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties and state-wide news, as well.

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Superclub

A superclub is a very large or superior nightclub, often with several rooms with different themes. The Limelight and superclub are electronic dance music venues.

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Susan Tyrrell

Susan Tyrrell (born Susan Jillian Creamer; March 18, 1945 – June 16, 2012) was an American character actress.

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Sylvester (singer)

Sylvester James Jr. (September 6, 1947December 16, 1988), known simply as Sylvester, was an American singer-songwriter.

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Techno

Techno is a genre of electronic dance music which is generally produced for use in a continuous DJ set, with tempos being in the range of 120 to 150 beats per minute (BPM).

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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) is an American daily newspaper based in metropolitan area of Atlanta, Georgia.

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The Carrie Diaries (TV series)

The Carrie Diaries is an American teen comedy-drama television series that aired for two seasons on The CW from January 14, 2013, to January 31, 2014.

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The Carrie Diaries season 1

The first season of the American comedy-drama television series The Carrie Diaries premiered on The CW on January 14, 2013, and concluded on April 8, 2013, consisting of 13 episodes.

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The Cramps

The Cramps were an American rock band formed in 1976 and active until 2009.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Prodigy

The Prodigy are an English electronic dance music band formed in Braintree, Essex, in 1990 by producer, keyboardist, and songwriter Liam Howlett.

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The real McCoy

"The real McCoy" is an idiom and metaphor used in much of the English-speaking world to mean "the real thing" or "the genuine article", e.g. "he's the real McCoy".

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The Slugger's Wife

The Slugger's Wife is a 1985 romantic comedy film about a baseball star who falls for a singer.

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The Venture Bros.

The Venture Bros. is an American adult animated action comedy television series created by Christopher McCulloch and Doc Hammer for Cartoon Network's late night programming block Adult Swim.

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The Weather Girls

The Weather Girls are an American female duo whose best-known line-up comprised Martha Wash and Izora Armstead.

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They Might Be Giants

They Might Be Giants, often abbreviated as TMBG, is an American alternative rock band formed in 1982 by John Flansburgh and John Linnell.

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Thirty Seconds to Mars

Thirty Seconds to Mars (commonly stylized as 30 Seconds to Mars) is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1998.

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Thompson Twins

Thompson Twins were a British pop band, formed in 1977 in Sheffield.

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Tiny Lights

Tiny Lights was a music group formed in New Brunswick, New Jersey by John Hamilton (guitar/vocals) and Donna Croughn (vocals/electric violin) in 1985.

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Tom Cruise

Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (born July 3, 1962) is an American actor and producer.

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Tool is an American rock band from Los Angeles.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limelight

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