Disco Bloodbath
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| Author | James St. James |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Non Fiction |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
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Publication date
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August 11, 1999 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 288 |
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| OCLC | 40990164 |
| 364.15/23/097471 21 | |
| LC Class | HV5805.S7 A3 199 |
Disco Bloodbath: A Fabulous but True Tale of Murder in Clubland is a 1999 memoir written by James St. James about his life as a Manhattan celebutante and club kid. The book specifically chronicles his friend Michael Alig's rise to fame, and Alig and his roommate's subsequent murder of fellow club kid and drug dealer Andre "Angel" Melendez. St. James was Alig's mentor, rival, and collaborator in the Manhattan party scene, and was familiar with many of its key figures. The memoir was later retitled Party Monster, after the 2003 motion picture of that name starring Macaulay Culkin, Seth Green, Chloë Sevigny, and Marilyn Manson.
Disco Bloodbath has since gone out of print and often goes for several hundred dollars in auctions. It was only printed three times: in 1999, twice in paperback with different colored jackets, and once in hardcover. It was reprinted in 2003 under the title Party Monster - The Fabulous but True Tale of Murder in Clubland (); paperbacks are widely available.
Michael Alig was a founder of the notorious Club Kids, a group of young clubgoers led by Alig in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 1996, Alig and his roommate, Robert D. "Freeze" Riggs, were convicted of murdering Andre "Angel" Melendez in a confrontation over a delinquent debt.
Superstar DJ Keoki is an electronic music DJ who was born in El Salvador but raised in Hawaii. Ironically, he had no experience as a DJ when he was branded "Superstar DJ Keoki". It was infamous partykid (later, murderer) Michael Alig who helped in the early promotion of his then boyfriend DJ Keoki
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