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About the Author
Peter Gatien created, owned, and operated groundbreaking nightclubs over the span of four decades. In his early twenties, he opened his first club, the Aardvark, in his hometown of Cornwall, Ontario. He went on to helm an unbroken string of successful megaclubs, including Limelight in New York City, Atlanta, Miami, London, and Chicago, as well as Manhattan's Palladium, Tunnel, and Club USA, and CiRCA in Toronto. Gatien was also the executive producer of the film A Bronx Tale. Today he splits his time between Toronto and New York City, enjoying a home life with his wife, Alessandra, his four children, and his two grandchildren.
Reviews
"A giant of the 1970s through 1990s New York City club scene...paints a picture of a simple guy with big dreams who was always vulnerable to outside speculation and conjecture...crisp, vivid prose...a warm tale of a local boy making good on the other side of the border...Sixteen years after his deportation back to Canada, Gatien tells his side of the story. An arresting and provocative narrative." -Kirkus Reviews "Gatien once dominated the empire that is New York nightlife. Now he's telling his story-the highs, the hedonism, and all the gritty details." -Newsweek "Peter Gatien may be the wisest cat in New York...he's got a tale to tell, one filled with fabulousness and tabloid phantasmagoria...The Club King, his slick new memoir out this month, chronicles Gatien's rise from a working-class kid in a sulfurous paper mill town in Ontario." -Rolling Stone "The Limelight and Tunnel are long gone. But the story of their vilified owner is still being written...With his memoir, The Club King published on April 1, he hopes for a degree of catharsis after an epic rise and fall, but also to celebrate a lost New York, when clubs felt mysterious and transgressive, luring the misfits and outcasts from the city's creative underground, and every night felt like a Mardi Gras on Mars." -New York Times "[Gatien's] legacy is-or ought to be-one of dogged entrepreneurism and a creative culture-centered approach to nightlife...If you were in New York and of partying age in the '90s, you almost certainly spent time in one or more of Gatien's spots. But the entrepreneur's story has many more chapters to it...The Club King covers one of clubland's darkest chapters but doesn't dwell on it...a chance to tell his own story." -Billboard "[A] formidable career as the preeminent swizzle stick in the cocktail of Manhattan nightlife...full of stories." -The Face "Peter Gatien's new memoir The Club King: My Rise, Reign, and Fall in New York Nightlife arrives at a time when gathering at nightclubs already seems like a distant memory. Which makes this fast-paced account of his legendary run of clubs in the '70s, '80s, and '90s seem even more like a fantasy." -Now Toronto "A mesmerizing memoir chronicling [Gatien's] unlikely journey from a humble childhood in a Canadian mill town to the apex of a cultural empire that defined the spirit of pre-gentrification New York." -Another Man Magazine "NYC nightlife impresario Peter Gatien-who was behind legendary '90s clubs Limelight, Palladium, Club USA, and Tunnel-has revealed his wildest moments with celebs from Johnny Depp to Mick Jagger in a new memoir." -Page Six
Book Information
ISBN 9781542015301
Author Peter Gatien
Format Paperback
Page Count 280
Imprint Little A
Publisher Amazon Publishing