Love Is the Message
Vince Aletti's disco dedication
Melissa Anderson
The Disco Files 1973?78:
New York's Underground, Week by Week
by Vince Aletti and Fran Lebowitz
D.A.P.
$35.00 List Price
In a “Talk of the Town” piece from the September 27, 1976, issue of the New Yorker, Jamaica Kincaid recalls a night spent at the Loft, David Mancuso’s legendary invitation-only disco (which was also his home), then at 99 Prince Street, in SoHo. She describes her get-down docent, a Loft habitué: “A man we know named Vince Aletti spends much of his time ‘partying,’ and, as can be imagined, he has a lot of fun. Vince Aletti
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