Clubland Confidential by Frank Owen

Clubland Confidential by Frank Owen

'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.

Frank Owen was born in Manchester and began his career as a writer for Melody Maker. His work has appeared in Arena, I-D, Elle, Rolling Stone and the Washington Post. He is currently a contributor to Village Voice. He now lives in New York with his wife.

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ISBN 13	9780091885786
ISBN 10	0091885787
Title	Clubland Confidential
Author	Frank Owen
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Ebury Publishing
Year published	2004-09-02
Number of pages	336
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