Been learning a great deal about the origins of Garage lately - the electronic kind, not the rock music offshoot - and I've just been repeatedly flabbergasted by shit I didn't know.
Garage was originally a derivative of house and disco, aptly named "garage house". The music was played at Paradise Garage nightclub and Club Zanzibar (located in New York and Newark, New Jersey respectively).
Focusing on Paradise Garage, it is important to state that this nightclub a melting pot of queer culture. It was sadly also demolished in 2018.
Madonna was there, Diana Ross was there and Tim Curry wrote about being at the latter in a song he called 'Paradise Garage'. Two things are important about this:
Madonna was allegedly booed off stage
TIM CURRY WAS A MUSICIAN
2b. NO SERIOUSLY I HAD NO IDEA HE MADE MUSIC
SO. So. It made sense why he was in Rocky Horror Picture show. I mean LOOK AT HIM. He's great, and I should watch that movie some time. Between him being at a location renowned for its nightlife and forward -thinking music - including dance music as a whole - his time as an actor and a musician, it just makes so much sense why he was cast in that movie. THIS WAS PRELIMINARY RESEARCH MIND YOU! I COULDVE GOT THIS SHIT WRONG SO GO LOOK SHIT UP IF YOU WANT TO.
The music was also pretty good. More on that another time.