Overview

An 18-month New York City odyssey straight through the debaucherous heart of the 1970s... With disco music thriving in the city's black and gay communities and the genre finally reaching mainstream white suburbia, producer Robert Stigwood sets out to make the film that will spark a full-scale cultural revolution. The Yankees, aka Bronx Bombers enter the age of free agency under the leadership of George Steinbrenner who is determined to restore the faltering legendary baseball team back to their former glory...at any price. Shock rockers, Kiss, with their fire-breathing, guitar-smoking, blood-spitting, ear-splitting levels of volume and eye-popping visuals are adjusting to their newfound success. However, the rollercoaster of sudden stardom illuminates the cracks in the foundation of a band already breaking apart from within. In an era of widespread crime, it's difficult to tell one day from the next, much less, one shooting from the next...which is why the first ones fell away and blended in with everything else while nobody knew a serial killer was roaming the streets. BICENTENNIAL CHIC is set against a kaleidoscopic background of music, media, sports, fashion, sex, greed and murder as America pushes toward the biggest party in its history.

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Here is the audacity: Derrico writes all of it in present tense. Not history. Not retrospect. Lived experience, moving forward, unresolved - exactly as it felt before anyone knew how it would end. - Elise Krentzel, author of Under My Skin: Drama, Trauma and Rock 'N' Roll A time capsule of something that will never come again. Thank you for honoring the greatest city in the world. The ghosts thank you. - Yvonne McGarvey, author of Street Music

Author Information

Mike Derrico is a freelance writer and 1970s pop culture historian from Central New Jersey. He is the author of ...AND THE CATHEDRAL FELL TO THE GROUND: The Lonesome Death of Rock & Roll (2023), THE LOCKER NOTES, a novel (2021), and AUTUMN AND EVERYTHING AFTER: John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen & the Birth of the Reagan Era (2020). BICENTENNIAL CHIC is his fourth book. His work has appeared in NJArts.net and Legs McNeil's Pleasekillme.com. From 2016-2023, he produced and hosted the Rock Under Fire podcast, which ran for six seasons.Follow Mike on derricountitled.com, Substack and Instagram.

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