By Joel Selvin,John Johnson Jr.,Dick Cami
ISBN-10: 0312581785
ISBN-13: 9780312581787
The never-before-told tale of The Peppermint front room, the famed new york nightspot and mobster hangout that introduced an era
The Peppermint front room used to be meant to be not anything greater than a entrance for playing and different rackets however the membership grew to become a sensation after Dick "Cami" Camillucci started to characteristic a brand new form of track, rock and roll. The mobsters working where stumbled on themselves juggling rebellious youths along celebrities like Greta Garbo and Shirley MacLaine. while The Beatles visited the membership, Cami's uncle-in-law needed to restrain a hitman who was once after Ringo simply because his female friend used to be so infatuated with the drummer.
Working with Dick Cami himself, Johnson and Selvin unveil this engrossing tale of the go-go sixties and the membership that encouraged the vintage hits "Twisting the evening Away" and "The Peppermint Twist."
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