Lexington Queen

The Newlex is a nightclub in Tokyo's Roppongi entertainment district.

The club was founded in 1980 under the name Lexington Queen and new first reopened after a renovation phase in 2007 under the name " Edo Newlex ", but after a few months the " Edo " was removed from the name and the club officially since " Newlex " is. In the scene, the club has always been and still is, just briefly ( the ) " Lex ".

The Lex is virtually since its inception, a popular meeting place for Japanese and non-Japanese models ( for free upon presentation of the comp card entrance is ). In the booming 1980s, the Model Agency Owner Motoko Inagawa scouted models for the first wave of foreign models in Japanese advertising new layman faces among other things, by around looked while dancing on raised platform in the crowd, and then people just spoke.

The Lex is also famous for its enormous number of prominent visitors, straight from the film and music industry. Above all, the contacts of the manager Bill Hersey, an American, it is thanks to them that even often stop by world stars who have to do in Tokyo at night in Lex. So Paris Hilton celebrated her birthday in February 2009 at the Lex. The Celebrity visit documented countless photos on the walls of the club, which date back to the years of establishment in the early 1980s with almost historic images, for example, the visit of Queen or even Udo Lindenberg. Already in the founding year 1980 immortalized Ryuichi Sakamoto disco with a song called " Lexington Queen" on the B - side of his very first single.

The Lex is located in the basement of a building with several other restaurants and hostess club and is quite compact for its visibility. Almost half of the club is occupied by the VIP seating area, the "free" access area consists almost entirely from the dance floor and the area in front of the bar and the baggage compartments so that disco - visitors have to practically stand all the time. Many attribute this fact to the special charm of Lex.

Despite the prominence that Lex is visited by numerous "normal" Japanese people like to celebrate her birthday there as well, where they are particularly congratulated by Bill Hersey on the DJ microphone. Even with tourists, the club is popular, which is mentioned in several guidebooks (Marco Polo Travel Guides ), as well as living in the particularly numerous in Roppongi foreigners in Japan.

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Official Homepage of the club

Incomplete list of prominent visitors in 2007