Classic Gay Dance Mix The Music Lives On
DJ Ken Newbert and DJ Frankie Knuckles - Side B - Performance Date September 18, 1981 - Venue may be Carol's Speak Easy in Chicago original

DJ Ken Newbert and DJ Frankie Knuckles - Side B - Performance Date September 18, 1981 - Venue may be Carol's Speak Easy in Chicago

Carol’s Speakeasy became an incredibly successful club, despite the death of Mother Carol in September 1979. Greg Collier from Detroit was one of its first DJs. (His older brother Ken Collier was already well-known in Detroit.) Frankie Knuckles even spun there for a time. Michael Graber and Grant Smith experimented with film and video there in the early ’80s. Graber would go on to open the Riverside Club, which became the Power Plant under Knuckles.