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unusual facts about discothèque



Commander Tom

He began working as a DJ at the "Drops SuperDisco" in Kehl in the 1980s, and also worked as a DJ at the "Rheinpark" discothèque in Germersheim in the 1990s.

Discotheque CVB: Live in Chicago

Discotheque CVB: Live In Chicago is a 2004 live album by Camper Van Beethoven recorded at Metro Chicago on October 29, 2004.

Gaby oh Gaby

The song is included in a list of 3000 rock classics in the book La Discothèque parfaite de l'odyssée du rock by Gilles Verlant, who calls the track Gaby oh Gaby one of the "summits of the decade" alongside the next single Vertige de l'amour.

Gothenburg discothèque fire

Relatives of the victims founded the non-profit organization BOA (association for the relatives of the fire victims), which for instance has had contact with relatives of the victims of a discothèque fire in Volendam, The Netherlands, and offered support to relatives of victims of the 2004 tsunami.

Jean-Pierre François

He decided to leave the show-biz, and became owner of a discothèque in Saint-Cyprien.

Jordan Christopher

After a residency at the Peppermint Lounge of eight months, The Wild Ones were hired to play at "Arthur", the Manhattan discothèque operated by Sybil Williams, then recently divorced from Richard Burton.

Killer Joe Piro

Piro was invited to shake his moneymaker for the cover of discothèque albums Discotheque! (Enoch Light), The Mule (Skitch Henderson), and Viva La Pachanga (Joe Sherman).

Phoenician Club

The premises were run as a discothèque called Jonathan's Disco in the early 1970s and is notable in the history of the Australian pop band Sherbet, who played a formative eight-month residency there during 1970; it was here that they were first seen by their future manager Roger Davies.

Studio 54 Radio

The channel was originally known as The Strobe from 2002 to 2011, when it was relaunched under its current incarnation, a homage to the New York City discothèque Studio 54.

Teddy Stauffer

In Acapulco, he founded a discothèque, "The Tequila a Go-Go", and worked as manager of several well-known hotels (including the "Hyatt" and "Villa Vera").

Wild Cherries

The Wild Cherries was an Australian rock group, which started in late 1964 playing R&B and became "the most relentlessly experimental psychedelic band on the Melbourne discotheque / dance scene" according to commentator, Glenn A. Baker.

Wolfgang Abel and Marco Furlan

On March 3, 1984, in Castiglione delle Stiviere Abel and Furlan, dressed in Pierrot costumes, were caught dousing the carpet and furniture in a crowded discotheque with gasoline.


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