David Paul Mancuso was an American disc jockey who created the popular "by invitation only" parties in New York City, which later became known as "The Loft".
10 Facts About David Mancuso
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David Mancuso helped start the record pool system for facilitating the distribution of promotional records to the qualified disc jockey.
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David Mancuso was born on October 20,1944, in Utica, New York.
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David Mancuso was born out of wedlock while his mother's husband was serving in World War II and lived in an orphanage for the first five years of his life.
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David Mancuso dropped out of high school on his 16th birthday and worked as a dishwasher for two years to finance his move to New York City in 1962.
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David Mancuso continued to develop a highly variegated social network, frequenting rent parties in such disparate milieus as Harlem and Staten Island, while immersing himself in the hippie culture of the era at such East Village venues as the Electric Circus, the Planetarium, and the Fillmore East.
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David Mancuso became an ardent devotee of Leary's The Psychedelic Experience after his initial experiments with LSD.
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On September 19,2005, David Mancuso was inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame for his outstanding achievement as a DJ.
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On December 23,2006, a nightclub named after David Mancuso opened in Tubingen, in southern Germany.
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David Mancuso died at his home in Manhattan on November 14,2016.