Former concert hall and nightclub
40°43′59.92″N
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Palladium
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Former names
| Academy of Music
(1927?1976)
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Type
| Movie palace
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concert hall
, and
nightclub
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Address
| 126 East 14th Street
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Town or city
| New York City
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Country
| United States
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Opened
| 1927
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Closed
| August 1997
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Demolished
| August 1998
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Seating capacity
| 3,400
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The
Palladium
(originally called the
Academy of Music
) was a
movie theatre
,
concert hall
, and finally
nightclub
in
New York City
. It was located on the south side of
East 14th Street
, between
Irving Place
and
Third Avenue
.
Designed by
Thomas W. Lamb
, it was built in 1927 across the street from the site of the original
Academy of Music
established by financier
Moses H. Grinnell
in 1852.
[1]
Opened as a deluxe
movie palace
by movie mogul
William Fox
, founder of the
Fox Film
,the academy operated as a cinema through the early 1970s.
[2]
Beginning in the 1960s, it was also utilized as a
rock concert
venue, particularly following the June 1971 closure of the
Fillmore East
. It was rechristened the Palladium on September 18, 1976, with
the Band
live radio broadcast,
[3]
and continued to serve as a concert hall into the following decade.
In 1985, the Palladium was converted into a nightclub by
Steve Rubell
and
Ian Schrager
, after their success with
Studio 54
. Japanese architect
Arata Isozaki
redesigned the building's interior for the club.
[4]
Peter Gatien
owned and operated the club from 1992 until 1997.
The Palladium closed in August 1997 following its purchase by
New York University
.
[5]
[6]
In August 1998, the building was demolished in order to build a twelve-story residence hall that students affectionately referred to as Palladium Hall.
[7]
The residence hall typically houses 960 residents, primarily sophomores with approximately 120 MBA students.
[8]
Two floors in the basement and sub-basement house the Palladium Athletic Facility.
[7]
Music venue
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The Academy of Music opened as a
movie palace
at 126 East 14th Street. By the 1970s it had become a
music venue
for rock and roll acts. Seating 3,400, it was popular with both mainstream bands and upcoming acts which could open a major bill. Many bands performed at the Palladium in the middle of large arena and stadium tours, due to the prestige of the theater and the excellent acoustics. The sound systems used for shows were by local rental companies when the touring acts did not carry their own.
Among the numerous rock concerts the Academy of Music hosted were
the Rolling Stones
, which played this venue on May 1, 1965 (and returned on June 19, 1978 when it was the Palladium),
[9]
[10]
the
Allman Brothers Band
on August 15, 1971,
[11]
Aerosmith's first concerts outside of New England, opening for Humble Pie and Edgar Winter's White Trash on December 2 & 3, 1971, and the series of
New Year's
shows played by
the Band
on December 28?31, 1971 (recordings from which were released as the 1972 live album
Rock of Ages
). New Year's Eve 1973 featured the eclectic line-up of
Blue Oyster Cult
,
Iggy Pop
, and Teenage Lust (which had recently backed up
John Lennon
) and
Kiss
,.
Genesis
performed their NY concerts of
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
there in 1974. And
Renaissance
performed there on May 17, 1974; the show featured
Andy Powell
of
Wishbone Ash
on guitar, and bootleg recordings are widely available.
The
Grateful Dead
played two extended stands at this venue. One was seven shows at the Academy of Music, from March 21?28, 1972. Excerpts of these shows, including some tracks with
Bo Diddley
as a guest, were officially released on
Dick's Picks Volume 30
and
Dave's Picks Volume 14
. The other was 5 shows between April 29 and May 4, 1977. The complete April 30 show was officially released as
Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 1
, with 3 bonus tracks from the April 29 show. The complete May 3 show was officially released as
Dave's Picks Volume 50
, with 5 bonus tracks from the May 4 show, and an additional 7 tracks from the May 4 show on the Dave's Picks 2024 Bonus Disc.
Bruce Springsteen
& the
E Street Band
played six shows at the Palladium in October and November 1976, and three more in September 1978. Tickets for all three 1978 shows were sold out.
Frank Zappa
and his band performed on and around
Halloween
several times, including performances in 1977, which were included in the film
Baby Snakes
, a legendary series of shows in 1978, and a 1981 performance which was simulcast live on radio and
MTV
.
New York proto-punk musicians The
Patti Smith
Group,
John Cale
, and
Television
, performed at the Palladium on New Year's Eve 1976. The
Bay City Rollers
performed at The Palladium on January 8, 1977. A performance of the
Ramones
was recorded at
the Palladium on January 7, 1978
; and they returned for New Year's Eve 1979.
The Police
during their Regatta de Blanc World Tour 1979-80 played on November 29, 1979.
Kiss
played a warm-up show here, in 1980, before they kicked off their
Unmasked Tour
in Italy; it was
Eric Carr
's first live performance with the band. In 1991,
Tin Machine
performed at the venue during their
It's My Life Tour
on November 27 & 29; a portion of these performances were used for their live album
Tin Machine Live: Oy Vey, Baby
.
Blondie, fresh from their first European tour, performed songs from the Blondie and Parallel Lines albums, on May 4, 1978. Deborah Harry wore a long sleeve red shirt, with pink panties and red thigh high boots. Rockabilly legend, Robert Gordon along with master guitarist, Link Wray opened the evening performing classic songs from the likes of Elvis Presley, Bruce Springsteen,
Gene Vincent
, Eddie Cochran among others.
On July 25, 1980,
Kiss
played the venue, their only North American concert in 1980, to introduce new drummer
Eric Carr
to the American press before heading overseas for their
Unmasked Tour
. Also part of the reason for having the concert was to help subsidize the rental of the Palladium for tour rehearsals with Carr.
[12]
The venue was also where many British
heavy metal
acts made their initial impact in the
United States
in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including,
Judas Priest
,
Iron Maiden
,
Def Leppard
,
Ozzy Osbourne
, Humble Pie, and other participants of the so-called
new wave of British heavy metal
. The classic line-up of
Motorhead
, with "Fast" Eddie Clarke on guitar, performed its final show at the Palladium on May 14, 1982.
Many UK punk and new wave acts made their New York debuts at the Academy of Music, including
the Clash
,
the Jam
,
the Boomtown Rats
,
the Fall
,
Graham Parker & the Rumour
,
Rockpile
,
U2
,
Duran Duran
,
the Undertones
, and
Roxy Music
. American punk bands the Ramones,
Blondie
,
the Cramps
, and
X
also played there in the late seventies and early eighties.
Chuck Berry
played a New Year's Eve concert on December 31, 1988, recorded by
WNEW-FM
and available as "Chuck Berry Live At Palladium Theater, New York, WNEW-FM Broadcast, 31st December 1988".
Argentine rock
bands
Los Fabulosos Cadillacs
and
Soda Stereo
performed at the Palladium on September 25, 1995, and March 4, 1996, respectively.
The final concert held at Palladium was a sold-out performance by
Fugazi
on May 1, 1997.
Recordings
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The version of "Nantucket Sleighride" heard on
Mountain
's
Live: The Road Goes Ever On
album at was recorded during their Academy of Music performance on December 14, 1971.
On December 21, 1973,
Lou Reed
recorded both
Rock 'n' Roll Animal
and
Lou Reed Live
at Howard Stein's Academy of Music, released during February 1974 and March 1975 respectively, featuring songs from his solo career and
the Velvet Underground
.
Zappa in New York
is a live double album by
Frank Zappa
recorded during a series of concerts at the Palladium in December 1976.
Levon Helm
and the RCO All-Stars recorded
Live at The Palladium NYC, New Year's Eve 1977
. The
CD
album, released in March 2006, features over one hour of
blues-rock
music performed by a star-studded ensemble featuring Levon Helm (drums/vocals), Dr. John (keys/vocals), Paul Butterfield (harmonica/vocals), Fred Carter (guitar/vocals), Donald "Duck" Dunn (bass), Steve Cropper (guitar), Lou Marini (saxophones), Howard Johnson (tuba/baritone sax), Tom "Bones" Malone (trombone) and Alan Rubin (trumpet).
The Clash
played at the Palladium on September 20 and 21, 1979, as a part of their U.S. tour, and the iconic photo from the September 20 show of
Paul Simonon
smashing his bass would later be used for the front cover of the Clash album
London Calling
. Irish punk band
the Undertones
and American soul legends
Sam and Dave
were the opening acts for the shows. Bootleg recordings of both performances have surfaced, even recording the moment Simonon smashed his bass during the September 20 show.
[13]
The photograph on the back of
the Cramps
' original 1979 debut
EP
,
Gravest Hits
, was taken at the Palladium.
Renaissance
recorded
Unplugged Live at the Academy of Music
at the venue in 1985, although it was not released until 2000.
In 1992,
C+C Music Factory
recorded a song under the moniker S.O.U.L. S.Y.S.T.E.M. for the soundtrack to
The Bodyguard
(starring
Whitney Houston
and
Kevin Costner
). The song, "It's Gonna Be A Lovely Day", was the only song on the soundtrack performed by an artist other than Whitney Houston to be released as a single in the US. The remixes of the song, which were released via
Arista Records
on
CD single
,
cassette single
, and Double-12" vinyl single, were titled "The Palladium House Anthem I" and "The Palladium House Anthem II". At that time, C+C Music Factory member Robert Clivilles was the resident DJ at The Palladium.
In 2004, punk pioneers the
Ramones
reissued a live album they recorded at The Palladium. The album is called
Live January 7, 1978 at the Palladium, NYC [LIVE]
, and was released by
Sanctuary Records Group
.
Club MTV
, a live daily program, was also filmed there in the 1980s and early 1990s and starred
Downtown Julie Brown
.
Nightclub
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The Palladium was converted from a music venue into a
nightclub
by former
Studio 54
owners
Steve Rubell
and
Ian Schrager
. They hired
Danceteria
DJ Richard Sweret, DJ Patrick Anastasi and DJ Luis Martinez who saw the possibility of a much larger audience for a downtown ‘
new wave music
’, Euro and
house music
-oriented club. Designed by architect
Arata Isozaki
, the Palladium featured commissioned art works by artists such as
Keith Haring
,
Jean Michel Basquiat
, and
Francesco Clemente
.
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Basquiat's mural was in a bar called the Mike Todd room, Clemente's mural was in a stairwell, and Haring's mural was behind the dance floor.
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From its celebrity-studded opening in May 1985, the Palladium was one of the major features of the vibrant New York club scene.
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In September 1985,
Azzedine Alaia
's fashion show was held at the Palladium.
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The club was a mainstay on the New York club scene until it was bought out in 1997 by
New York University
(NYU) and demolished for a campus housing project.
[18]
Junior Vasquez
's Arena party, held Saturday nights and Sunday mornings at Palladium between September 1996 and September 1997, was one of the most popular parties in the New York club scene at the time. Although the promoters billed Arena as "The Gay Man's Pleasure Dome", the party drew an eclectic mix of gay and straight from Manhattan and far beyond. Vasquez commemorated Arena in the titles of the remixes he produced that year.
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References
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Notes
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Rapp, Allison RappAllison (August 7, 2022).
"25 Years Ago: New York City's Legendary Palladium Closes"
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Ultimate Classic Rock
. Retrieved
May 30,
2024
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Rapp, Allison RappAllison (August 7, 2022).
"25 Years Ago: New York City's Legendary Palladium Closes"
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Ultimate Classic Rock
. Retrieved
May 30,
2024
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Rockwell, John
"Refurbished 14th St. Palladium Opens With Program by the Band"
The New York Times
(September 20, 1976)
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Goldberger, Paul (May 20, 1985).
"AN APPRAISAL; THE PALLADIUM: AN ARCHITECTURALLY DRAMATIC NEW DISCOTHEQUE"
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The New York Times
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Rapp, Allison RappAllison (August 7, 2022).
"25 Years Ago: New York City's Legendary Palladium Closes"
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Ultimate Classic Rock
. Retrieved
May 30,
2024
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"Academy of Music/The Palladium"
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nycgo.com
. Retrieved
March 24,
2019
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a
b
Uncredited, Uncredited (August 23, 1998).
"POSTINGS: 16-Story, $80 Million Building on East 14th Street; From a Disco Palace To an N.Y.U. Dormitory"
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The New York Times
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"Palladium Hall"
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nyu.edu
. Retrieved
March 24,
2019
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Manning, Sean,
The Show I'll Never Forget: 50 Writers Relive Their Most Memorable Concertgoing Experience
, Da Capo Press, January 2, 2007. Cf.
p.22
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"Ticket Stub from Rolling Stones Academy of Music Concert, NY,NY 1965 Seat L 13
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Allman Brothers Band, Academy of Music, New York, New York, August 15, 1971 allmanbrothersband.com
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"KISS and Sell" by C.K. Lendt
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Seventies' Greatest Album Covers: London Calling
at Super Seventies RockSite!
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a
b
Wilson, William (May 18, 1986).
"THE PALLADIUM--THIS JOINT IS SOMETHIN'
"
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Los Angeles Times
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L. Munuera, Ivan.
"An Organism of Hedonistic Pleasures: The Palladium."
Log
, 41. Fall 2017
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Slesin, Suzanne (May 15, 1985).
"NEW-LOOK PALLADIUM REOPENS"
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The New York Times
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ISSN
0362-4331
. Retrieved
May 19,
2022
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Gross, Michael (September 6, 1985).
"ALAIA SHOW AT PALLADIUM MIXES FASHION AND FLASH"
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The New York Times
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ISSN
0362-4331
. Retrieved
May 19,
2022
.
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Kaplan, Isaac (October 14, 1986).
"6 Iconic New York Artworks That Were Destroyed"
.
Artsy
. Retrieved
June 18,
2021
.
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