Season 3 · Episode 8
DJ · 'Supermodel' songwriter · Electroclash founder
Released 3 Aug 2023 · 1:06:53 as a podcast
Every name, club, book, song, night and look from the interview - 175 references and 467 mentions in this episode. Superstar DJ Larry Tee rolls up from Atlanta in 1987 with Lahoma van Zandt and RuPaul - the van flipped on the way. Then Celebrity Club in the basement of the Tunnel, where the Club Kids were born, life in Nelson Sullivan's Meatpacking townhouse, the hot body contest at Disco 2000, co-writing 'Supermodel', Liza Minnelli dancing in his booth at Love Machine, naming Electroclash in Williamsburg, 'Licky' with Princess Superstar, and his label Zuzii in London and Berlin. Work!
A black baseball cap, chunky white rectangular glasses, a grey beard and a black sweater over a hot pink collar
A pale wall with a black-and-gold painting of a long-haired woman
Leopard inserts, army-navy jacket
Bell-bottoms with hand-sewn leopard inserts and a green army-navy jacket with animal-print splashes
Came up from Atlanta with Larry and Lahoma; the van flipped on the way. Larry co-wrote 'Supermodel' seeing Ru as a supermodel
Heard as “Rapaul / Ru Paul / RuPaul / Rue”
Larry, Lahoma and Ru moved up from Atlanta in 1987
Heard as “Manhattan / New York / New York City”
The guest: superstar DJ, songwriter of 'Supermodel', the man who named Electroclash, Celebrity Club host and founder of the fashion label Zuzii. Links to his Night Fever episode
Heard as “Larry / Larry T”
The name Larry gave to pop made with electronic music
Heard as “Electra Clas / ElectroClash / Electroclas / Electroclash”
Brought Larry and his crew to the Tunnel for Celebrity Club. Larry says he doesn't judge him - but left a party before Michael arrived
Heard as “Michael Ailick / Michael Eilig / Michael and Rudolph / Michael had a party”
Larry, Lahoma and friends lived with him in his Meatpacking townhouse; he got them in everywhere
Heard as “Nelson”
Larry's fashion label - worn by Missy Elliott, Sean Kingston and Kid Ink
Heard as “Zewy / Zhuji / Zuji / Zuzzi”
Six years running clubs and Zuzii
Larry's Atlanta partner in crime and Celebrity Club co-host - 'the king and queen of Manhattan', Larry says. Saved the box of archive photos from the crash
Heard as “La Homa / Lahoma / Mahoma / a homa”
Larry's party - first in Atlanta, then in the Tunnel basement in 1987: the Top 10 countdown, the hot body contest and the birth of the Club Kids
Heard as “Celebrity Club / celebrity club / celebrity clubs”
Larry hosted its hot body contest; by then, he says, things were getting dark
Heard as “Disco 2000 / disco 2000”
Danced in Larry's DJ booth at Love Machine to 'Losing My Mind' - and knew his name
Heard as “Liza”
Larry spent last winter there
Heard as “LA / Los Angeles”
Host; puts Larry through the 'name 25 original Tunnel club kids' game
Heard as “James”
Started at Celebrity Club, Larry says - not Disco 2000
Heard as “hot body contest / hot dude”
Larry's song with Jimmy Harry and Ru, 1991
Heard as “Supermodel / supermodel / you better work”
Arrived at Larry's birthday party announcing her name - 'fully formed from the moment she arrived'
FashionFrosted wig and 80s divorcée heel (see Mood)
Heard as “Bunny”
Part of the 'supermodel cluster' at Love Machine
Heard as “Linda / Linda Evangelista”
Co-host
Heard as “Barbado / Randy”
Fenton and Randy's company; 'Money, Success, Fame, Glamour' as a law of attraction
Heard as “World of Wonder / world of wonder”
Where the crew slept 24 hours after the crash - 'a religious Club Med'
Heard as “Heritage USA / Thing Park”
Disco 2000's home; Stephen Sprouse backstage
Heard as “Limelight / limelight / the chapel”
Larry's party at the Underground - supermodels, Liza and Tom Hanks; later La Palais de Beauté
Heard as “Love Machine”
Fenton and Randy licensed four of Larry's songs; he skipped a hot-body-contest cameo
Heard as “Party Monster”
Where Larry found the hipsters - and Electroclash's first parties
On the cover of The Face; on the Electroclash bill
Berlin drag star and stand-up; Larry's partner in Icons International
Heard as “Morgan Wood / Sam”
Co-host
Heard as “Fenton”
The Atlanta crew's New York model - 'already kind of over' when they arrived
Heard as “Pyramid Club / pyramid club”
A big fan of Larry's band the Fans, as Larry tells it
Larry's drag band that went up to New York
Heard as “Now explosion / our explosion / owl explosion”
Nelson's running partner, who got them into Keith Haring's parties and Andy Warhol's book signings
Heard as “Musto”
Part of the 'supermodel cluster' at Love Machine
Heard as “Christy / Turlington”
The generation of DJs that got paid
Seen at the Limelight chapel, as Larry tells it
Heard as “George Michael / poor George”
Larry's joke: LA needs a new Swifty Lazar - him
James's 60-second game: Larry gets Ru, Aphrodita and Jenny before the hosts pile in with Otto, Julie Jewels, Armen Ra, Sebastian, Magenta, Lahoma and more
Heard as “Original tunnel kids / name 25”
Second-generation club kid with a new book out
Heard as “wallpaper”
A Celebrity Club guest host, as James remembers
Heard as “Diane Brill”
A Celebrity Club guest host
Heard as “John Sachs / John Sex”
Ru's partner in the club kids' king-and-queen game
Heard as “Sister Dimension”
Larry played keyboards; they brought the B-52's and the Brains to New York
Heard as “called the Fans”
Where Nelson Sullivan's videos live, on the 5 Ninth Avenue channel
The van flipped near the Tennessee border; the wigs and disco balls were shredded but Lahoma saved the archive photos
Heard as “back tire blew out / flipped over”
Bell-bottoms with hand-sewn leopard inserts and a green army-navy jacket with animal-print splashes
FashionLeopard inserts, army-navy jacket
Heard as “bell bottoms / leopard skin”
Brought Celebrity Club to the Tunnel with Michael
Heard as “Rudolph”
What Love Machine became
Heard as “Palace de Bout / Palais de Beaut”
Another Atlanta girl, later Patricia Field's partner styling Sex and the City; rode in on a white horse at Red Zone
Heard as “Rebecca”
Nelson's three-storey townhouse - safe haven for every drag queen passing through
Heard as “meat market / meat packing”
Where Larry went to meetings every day
James remembers his Disco 2000 performance
Heard as “Lee Bower”
His Milan show sent supermodels down the runway like confetti - the spark for 'Supermodel'
Heard as “Johnny Versace”
Supermodels down the runway like confetti - the spark for 'Supermodel'
Heard as “Versace fashion show / Versace show”
Donna Summer dress, Sunday hat and heels - a foot taller than the whole wedding party
Heard as “Lady Drag in Atlanta / we had a wedding”
A Donna Summer white flowing dress, a big Sunday hat and heels
FashionWhite flowing dress, Sunday hat
Heard as “Sunday hat / white flowing dress”
Larry lived above it in the bad years
'Club kids' as a fashion trope today
FashionKelly green
Heard as “Kelly Green”
Larry saw her at the Jewish Center uptown - and booked her for Electroclash
In the audience at Peaches - 'you know you're on the right track'
Heard as “Chloe Savini / Chloe's”
Larry's parties moved there
Chicks on Speed on its cover; a Face writer lived in Larry's loft
Heard as “the face”
Sang Larry's hit 'Licky'
Sings Larry's 'Fashion Queen'
Larry's London club as its 'uncredited birthplace'
Heard as “Drag Race UK / UK franchise”
Larry and Morgan Wood's festival stage for the 'Gays and Girls Alliance'
Heard as “Icons”
An original club kid, in James's list
Has a club kids book out
Has a club kids book out - with Larry on a cover
James's other half when they were king and queen
The Atlanta houses where Fenton and Randy came to hang out
Heard as “Bonaventure”
Of Fischerspooner - Larry calls Stipe 'the godfather of Electroclash'
The Fans played with them
Named a Fans single Single of the Year
Heard as “Village Voice”
The 18-year-old keyboard player in a skinny new-wave tie
FashionSkinny tie
Heard as “new wave tie”
Larry's weekends there - basement after-hours and the B-52's
Heard as “Athens”
Where Larry first saw the B-52's
From the top of her frosted wig to the bottom of her 80s divorcée heeled boot
FashionFrosted wig, 80s divorcée boot
Heard as “frosted wig”
After the crash the crew drove straight to his Heritage USA
Heard as “Jim and Tammy Baker”
His private parties, via Musto and Nelson
Heard as “Keith Herring”
His book signings, via Musto and Nelson
Part of the Love Machine crowd, Larry says
Produced Liza's 'Losing My Mind'
Styled Sex and the City with Rebecca
Heard as “Pat”
Rebecca's Bianca Jagger entrance
FashionWhite horse
Heard as “White Horse”
Linda, Christy and Naomi standing under one light by the dance floor every week
FashionSupermodels under one light
Heard as “supermodel cluster”
Nelson's house was on its edge
What's Love Got to Do with It was shot across from Nelson's house
Disco 2000's owner at the Limelight, as James remembers
Co-wrote 'Supermodel' with Larry and Ru
Ru's first lady drag in Atlanta: a Donna Summer white flowing dress
Larry's mother read it to the kids
Electroclash gigs there instead of a Party Monster cameo
Where Larry saw Peaches
Heard as “Jewish Center”
Larry saw them at a gallery - 'the future of something'
Heard as “Fisher Spooner”
Larry's 2001 festival in Williamsburg - Peaches, Chicks on Speed - that named a genre
Heard as “my festival”
Electroclash on its cover
Remade 'Money, Success, Fame, Glamour' for Party Monster
Heard as “Felix the House Cat”
The sound Felix's Party Monster track recalls
Heard as “Frankie goes to Hollywood”
One of the 80s celebrity DJs
Johnny was one of the 80s celebrity DJs
Heard as “Johnny Dinell”
The arena-DJ era
Larry's hit - gold on Steve Aoki's compilation
Heard as “Licky”
A recent top 20
Heard as “Fashion Queen”
Larry's recent top 20s
Heard as “B-port”
Larry's hits came out there
James: 'You couldn't be Paris Hilton in Ibiza'
Too expensive for the creative crowd
Larry's London party - 'the uncredited birthplace of Drag Race UK'
Heard as “electric party machine”
Larry's favourite of Drag Race UK
The Drag Race franchise Larry hasn't got to yet
Wore Zuzii in her videos
Wore Zuzii
A pale wall with a black-and-gold painting of a long-haired woman
FashionA black baseball cap, chunky white rectangular glasses, a grey beard and a black sweater over a hot pink collar
His home library, with a toy robot on the shelf
FashionA royal-blue shirred high-neck top, white glasses and big white chain earrings
A Holy Terror poster and shelves of photo-booth strips and frames
FashionA navy shirt with a small white print and black glasses
His room with 70s sunflower wallpaper and striped curtains
FashionA navy-and-white Breton striped T-shirt and multicoloured glasses
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