Menergy by Niebur Louis;

Author:Niebur, Louis;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2021-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

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New Heights

The years 1981 and 1982 were in many ways the most successful, most artistically fulfilling years of San Francisco’s dance music scene. With the launch of Megatone Records, Patrick Cowley and Marty Blecman solidified their places at the center of the San Francisco sound, releasing hit after hit, relaunching Sylvester’s career, and discovering a true star in singer Paul Parker. John Hedges returned to the production field with his first roster of solo artists and discovered his own Patrick Cowley, Barry Blum. Together they made a formidable songwriting and production team. The scene’s apotheosis was probably the massive First Encounter megaparty at the new Moscone Convention Center, an event that magnified and epitomized the best (and, to some, the worst) aspects of San Francisco clone culture. This chapter describes the events that made 1981 and 1982 such monumental years for San Francisco music, musicians, and gay men. These years could, with hindsight, be seen as a Mardi Gras for a way of life that celebrated a new liberated identity; at the time, they merely represented a continuing, upward trajectory of progress that participants had no way of knowing was about to be irrevocably challenged.

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