Sunset Strip

The Sunset Strip is the part of Sunset Boulevard in the city of West Hollywood. It is situated between the Hollywood district of Los Angeles and Beverly Hills.

The Sunset Strip is known for its boutiques, restaurants, rock clubs and nightclubs. The best-known clubs are the Viper Room ( River Phoenix died outside the door of the club ), The Roxy, Rainbow Bar & Grill and the Whisky a Go -Go, where well-known rock bands like Guns N 'Roses occurred and were known. The Sunset Marquis Hotel Hotel is considered the musicians who perform on the Sunset Strip. In the basement of the studio in the Sunset Marquis is set up, created a recording studio in the major music recordings.

During the day, the Sunset Strip is a popular shopping street.

History

In the 1920s came the first night clubs and casinos along the Sunset Strip, because this was outside the city limits and jurisdiction of the Los Angeles County and the stringent regulations of the city were not considered.

The term gloss and glamor described the Sunset Strip in the 1930s and 1940s, as the restaurants and clubs to the meeting place of the rich residents of Los Angeles were. Many today known people danced in the clubs as Ciro's, the Mocambo and the Trocadero. It is said that some night clubs of the Sunset Strip by gangsters like Mickey Cohen were bought.

Beginning of the 1960s, declined the importance of the Sunset Strip for the entertainment industry, but many restaurants and clubs have become attractions of tourists. Mid-1960s avanchierte the Sunset Strip to a metropolitan area of counter-culture. 1969 hippies were frequently chased by the police. Such scenes were played out until the early 1970s. This scenario processed the band Buffalo Springfield in their song For What It's Worth.

In the mid -1970s, the Sunset Strip avanchierte to the port of American musicians and bands. The well-known rock band Rodney Bingenheimer 's English Disco had its origin in the Sunset Strip. At this time, the Sunset Strip was also relevant to the punk music and new wave music. In the late 1970s the Sunset Strip was a conurbation of Glam Metal in the USA. Because of their higher rental rates, the glam metal scene sparked during the 1980s again.

1984 West Hollywood became independent as a city and was given the responsibility for the Strip by the county administration. Since the 1990s, the Sunset Strip is a metropolitan area for rock bands that are not sponsored by the music industry.

More

• In several clubs on Sunset Strip annually finds the Sunset Strip Music Festival, a three - day music festival for rock and metal bands.
• In November 1984, the voters failed in an attempt to make the Sunset Strip an independent city.
• The Las Vegas Strip was named after the Sunset Strip.
• Courtney Love wrote a song for the 2004 released album America's Sweetheart on the Strip.
• 77 Sunset Strip was a well known, from 1958 to 1964, radiated television series, which was filmed on the Strip.
• 1979 wrote the song Donna Summer Sunset People, which tells about the nightlife of the Strip.
• Neil Bogart's Casablanca Records record company had 1975 to 1981 based on the strip.