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By Jimi LaLumia
(on the same bill as Bob Marley & The Wailers) got signed at Max's; so did Aerosmith, who ran with The Dolls and Wayne County in the early 70s; Steven Tyler still talks about Max's and about getting signed by Columbia’s Clive Davis at the club. At the end of 1973, Max's closed for a short while; it changed hands as Tommy and Laura Dean took over from Ruskin. They brought in the always-edgy Peter Crowley, who brought in Patti Smith, Blondie, and The Ramones. During the short period when Max's was closed, Hilly Kristal changed "Hilly's On The Bowery" into CBGB, and there were two clubs spotlighting bands that would soon be iconic, serving as prototypes for what would become UK punk a few years later. However, Max's is where it truly all began, where “other” types were welcome and celebrated, ushered in by the Warhol influence. Max's is where Ziggy-era David Bowie was introduced to Iggy Pop, where the revolutionary band Suicide created a style and sound that has since been imitated but never duplicated, where Robert Gordon brought rockabilly
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Max’s Fab 50: There will be a celebration for the 50th anniversary of the legendary Park Avenue South nightspot, Max's Kansas City, this spring. It seems like only yesterday that as a teenager I'd pore over the New York Daily News for pictures and gossip about Andy Warhol and his bizarre crew from “The Factory" (the name given to his office/loft space), who would head over to Max's and make headlines. Max's was really the first of the “in crowd” places Devo for the weirdos. In 1965, when Max's opened, the world at large was frightened and fascinated by Andy, his new kind of art, and the groundbreaking band he “created,” back to life, and where a young The Velvet Underground; the leader Madonna first emerged as a rocker of the group was a young Lou Reed. before embracing her dance destiny. Soon the club, owned by Mickey Devo was introduced to the Ruskin, was being visited by Jane world at Max's; it's also where Cheap Fonda, Truman Capote, Janis Joplin, Trick showcased for Davis and got Robert De Niro ... you name them, their Epic Records deal. How they were there. Underground stars different the world of music might soon to become “superstars” (another have been if Max's Kansas City Warhol invention, a term that became hadn't opened when and how it did. part of our popular vocabulary) were I'm thankful it existed, as I have Holly Woodlawn, Candy Darling, remained in contact with so many Cherry Vanilla, and Wayne (now friends I made there decades ago. Jayne) County. After The Velvets Bowery Electric, doors away from became the house band of sorts, Iggy where CBGB used to be, will host the & The Stooges played Max’s, as did Max's 50th celebration in early June The New York Dolls and Alice over three nights; I'll keep you posted Cooper. A young Bruce Springsteen as more news develops. Rock on!
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of the album. The band will be hitting the road again for their 2015, already-close to sold out “On The Road Again” stadium tour, which sees the band perform in Australia, Japan and South East Asia in support their new album. The North American tour, promoted by Live Nation, kicks off on July 9 at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego. The full 23-city North American tour includes stops in East Rutherford, New Jersey (August 5 at MetLife Stadium), Chicago, Boston, Detroit and Seattle, among other cities. Tickets are on sale now at livenation.com. With a staggering 94 number ones and over 46 million records sold in just four years, One Direction has gone from energetic pop upstarts to international superstars. Four follows the global success of their huge sellout “Where We Are” stadium tour and the 3D film documentary This Is Us. Fans also had the opportunity to relive this summers’
‘Four’ Makes Them Even Bigger Than Before There’s no question about it: One Direction has long eclipsed the “boy band” stigma to become a cross-cultural phenonmenon akin to the early Beatles and Elvis – the numbers simply don’t lie. One Direction’s new album, Four, debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with more 387,000 copies sold following its first hitting stores in November. Once again, One Direction made U.S. chart history, as they became first group to ever have their first four albums debut at #1. This amazing U.S. debut came hot off the heels of One Direction’s night at The American Music Awards, where they performed their new single “Night Changes” and took home three awards, including Artist of the Year.
It doesn’t stop there: On Spotify, Four received the largest first week streams ever in the U.S., with more than 11.6 million streams and 29.3 million streams globally. The band also reached a milestone with Spotify as they hit one billion total streams, joining an elite handful of superstars to reach this feat. Four, which includes the lead single “Steal My Girl” and the followup “Night Changes,” is the boys’ most personal album, as the members co-wrote 11 of the 12 tracks. The group worked with their longtime collaborators Julian Bunetta, John Ryan, and Jamie Scott on the majority
tour with the release of their second film Where We Are: The Concert Film, which broke records as the biggest ever “Event Cinema” audience across one weekend; the film is now available on DVD. Add all this to their three billion YouTube views, 109 million combined Twitter followers, and 33 million Facebook fans, and it’s clear that Liam, Harry, Louis, Niall, and Zayn genuinely are a worldwide phenomenon. For more info, visit onedirectionmusic.com.