Go-go dancing bars are located in Patpong and Soi Cowboy streets of Bangkok. Not very many nightclubs had go-go dancers in the 1970s. However, in the late 1970s, there was a nightclub at 128 West 45th Street (the same location where the Peppermint Lounge had been) in Manhattan, New York City, called "G.G. Barnum's Room", patronized mostly by transsexuals, that had male go-go dancers who danced on trapezes above a net over the dance floor. In 1978, the Xenon night club in Manhattan became the first night club to provide go-go boxes for amateur go-go dancers to dance on. In the early
The Downstairs Club (later Le Disque a Go! Go!) (with Eric Clapton on guitar), The Who, Georgie Fame and many others, including the now London-based Zoot Money’s Big Roll Band. The club later became a discothèque/nightclub under various names, but the basement premises eventually reverted to use as a storage room. On 14 September 2014 a blue plaque commemorating the club was unveiled at the site of the premises by Zoot Money. • Al Kirtley Biography: Jerry Stooks, The Downstairs Club and the naming of Zoot Money’s Big Roll Band The Downstairs Club (later Le Disque a Go! Go!) The Downstairs Club was Bournemouth’s first full-time rock, rhythm and