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Dec 21, 2007 · Dec. 21, 2007. Mel Cheren, an innovative record executive who helped start the Paradise Garage, a cavernous focal point of the downtown Manhattan gay disco scene in the 1970s and ’80s, died...
Dec 12, 2007 · Published. Wed, 12 Dec 2007, 02:20. Words. Resident Advisor. Share. Paradise Garage and West End Records founder Mel Cheren has passed away of an AIDS-related illness. Dubbed ‘The Godfather of Disco’, Mel Cheren was a key player in the underground New York disco scene of the mid-seventies.
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In the late 1980s, Cheren founded the nonprofit group "24 Hours for Life" to raise money for AIDS relief. Through the organization, he published his autobiography, My Life and the Paradise Garage: Keep On Dancin ' (2000). Personal life. Mel Cheren died on December 7, 2007, from complications associated with AIDS. References
Jan 18, 2008 · by Julie Bolcer. January 18, 2008. Mel Cheren, the founder of the Paradise Garage and West End Records, died on Dec. 7. Some call him the Godfather of Disco. Others refer to him as Uncle Mel.
Dec 11, 2007 · Royals. Mel Cheren, Activist and Disco’s Godfather, Dies at 74. Andy Towle December 11, 2007. Mel Cheren, a founder of disco label West End Records and someone who was officially deemed...
Jan 11, 2008 · Garages New York City Pop New York. Melvin Cheren, record label owner: born Everett, Massachusetts 21 January 1933; died New York 7 December 2007.
Dec 11, 2007 · Mel Cheren, who died Friday at 74, was a founder of West End Records, a spearhead of disco from the mid-1970s. As a producer for another label, Scepter Records, Cheren was credited by Billboard magazine with inventing the 12-inch single and the purely instrumental b-side, which allowed a DJ to extend a dance song infinitely.
