Michael used to tell me how much fun the video bar Private Eyes was.
It was his first gay bar -- Madonna, Grace Jones and everyone went to this Flatiron hotspot -- right next-door to the famed Danceteria, which appeared in "Desperately Seeking Susan" and is where Madonna debuted "Everybody" to the world a couple years before.
I never made it there -- Palladium, Lure, Tunnel, King, Limelight, Club USA, Works, Uncle Charlie's and the Works are as far back as my NYC bars/clubs experiences go -- but from the looks of this 1989 clip, he sure was right!
It was his first gay bar -- Madonna, Grace Jones and everyone went to this Flatiron hotspot -- right next-door to the famed Danceteria, which appeared in "Desperately Seeking Susan" and is where Madonna debuted "Everybody" to the world a couple years before.
Madonna and Sean Penn reportedly stopped by on their first date
I'm told a shorter version of this used to run as an ad on public access' Channel J.
More deceased bar info HERE.
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I remember when I was a diver in college at the University of Kentucky my freshman year. My best friend was at Columbia, so I flew to New York on a stolen credit card and one of the places she took me was Private Eyes. I got picked out of the line by the doorman and he let us in without waiting. I remember I was as wearing a cropped sweater from Benetton that had belonged to my sister before I had it.
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