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Thinking Inside the Box

Okay, quick history lesson: A decade ago, rock was rock and club
Okay, quick history lesson: A decade ago, rock was rock and club music was club music, and the two didn’t mix on the dance floor. Squeezebox, New York City’s legendarily trashy, gay rock’n’roll dance party changed all that. “Squeezebox will go down in history like CBGB and Max’s Kansas City!” famed transsexual rocker Jayne County screamed from the stage at the party’s ten-year anniversary bash at Don Hill’s nightclub in May. Then she launched into her tender ballad “Prostitute in a Parachute.” In the basement dressing room, wigs were fluffed and cocktails slurped as one of the go-go dancers rocked out with his...well, it was there for all the VIPs--Johnny Knoxville, Kate Moss, the Strokes’ Albert Hammond Jr., Boy George, Sean Lennon and new girlfriend Elizabeth Jagger--to see. “I will never recover,” joked Lennon. “Is that Boy George over there?” he asked (in a thick Liverpudlian accent). “I thought it was a drag queen imitating Boy George!” Hammond said that when he first moved to New York, people told him Squeezebox was the place to meet people. “Then I realized maybe I shouldn’t be meeting those people!”

 

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