Peppermint Lounge - Second Peppermint Lounge

Second Peppermint Lounge

In November 1980, after G. G. Barnum's closed, the Peppermint Lounge name was revived for a new music night club run by Frank Roccio and Tom Goodkind. The DJ was David Azarc. The club featured top international music acts from both alternative rock and the burgeoning hip hop scenes. Some of the regular featured acts were The Cramps, X, The Raybeats, The Go-Gos, Marshall Crenshaw, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Billy Idol, Afrika Bambaataa, The Bangles, The Waitresses, and Joan Jett. VIP guests such as Mick Jagger and David Bowie added to the club's cachet. In March 1981, Yoko Ono visited the club in one of her first public appearances after the death of John Lennon, personally delivering a copy of their last single, "Walking on Thin Ice".

In 1982 the Peppermint Lounge moved downtown to 100 5th Avenue, where it continued for several years before closing in 1985. The building at 128 West 45th Street was torn down in the mid-1980s.