Venue: L'Amour
Town: Brooklyn, US

L'Amour was a music venue in Brooklyn, New York. L'Amour opened as a disco club in 1978, transformed into a rock club in 1981, and closed in February 2004 after several attempts to revive the venue with smaller capacity rooms. It was promoted as the "Rock Capital of Brooklyn", and hosted many of the biggest hard rock and heavy metal artists of the era, including Iron Maiden, Type O Negative, Kiss, Megadeth, Metallica, and Cheap Trick, as well as touring and underground bands from the United States and abroad. During the 1980s years, L'Amour was the launching pad for bands including Metallica, Anthrax, Overkill, Biohazard, Nuclear Assault, White Lion, Trixter (who won booker Chuck Kaye's first "talent search" contest), Stormtroopers of Death, and Type O Negative. The venue also hosted established acts like Cheap Trick, Iron Maiden, Slayer, Motörhead, Ramones, Guns N' Roses, WASP, Suicidal Tendencies, Jane's Addiction, Soundgarden, and Twisted Sister. On April 9, 1983, Metallica played their last show with Dave Mustaine at L'Amour, their first at the venue. Cheap Trick played at the venue on April 5, 1986, marking the first time all four original members (Robin Zander, Rick Nielsen, Bun E. Carlos, and Tom Petersson) had been in the same room since Petersson left the band. On the advice of Chuck Kaye, Petersson went backstage to meet his former bandmates, leading to the classic line-up reuniting to record a new album, Lap of Luxury. On May 8, 1988, Iron Maiden played a concert under the pseudonym 'Charlotte and the Harlots'. Also in 1988, DJ Chuck Kaye premiered the latest album by Metallica,... And Justice for All, at the venue. The original venue closed in 1991 and rebranded as a disco and strip club, before reverting back to L'Amour, with smaller capacity rooms and an emphasis on hardcore music. Frank Failace Sr., formerly a security guard at the Copacabana nightclub in Manhattan, was instrumental in opening L'Amour in 1978 as a disco and stayed with the venue for d