Anyone with even a passing knowledge of dancefloor history knows
Frankie Knuckles respectfully as the ‘Godfather of House’. Together
with his childhood friend Larry Levan he ran wild on the early disco
scene: his first job was spiking the punch at Nicky Siano’s Gallery.
Transplanted to Chicago after a residency at the bacchanal of New
York’s Continental Baths, it was Frankie’s sets of ballsy older disco
at the Warehouse that ignited this polite midwestern city and gave
house music its name. This interview was conducted just after the shock