Why LaBelle Matters: A Look at Some of the first Black Women in Rock N Roll 

 The year is 1975, at The Metropolitan Opera House, but the audience isn’t the sophisticated, suffocated, stuck-up crowd you might expect. There are bearded men with heavy makeup, West Village drag queens, people in chapless bottoms, afro-punks. People like Debbie Allen, Cher, and the Cycle Sluts sat in the audience. The theme of the night […]

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