Citations:Apollo

English citations of Apollo

• 1998, Robert Christgau, Grown Up All Wrong, 75 Great Rock and Pop Artists from Vaudeville to Techno, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 27:

  I was so impressed I checked King out live for the first time since the early seventies—introducing him at the Apollo to my editor, who was born the year King cut Live at the Regal, and to my wife and daughter two days later at a Westbury Music Fair matinee.

• 2009, Tracy Morgan and Anthony Bozza, I Am the New Black, Random House, →ISBN, page 75:

  Allen told me straight up that I was better than anyone he saw in those clubs, even the ones he’d seen at the Apollo, and as soon as he knew I was seriously thinking about trying it, he damn near dragged me to a club to give it a shot.

• 2010, Monica Hand, “Black is beautiful”, Naugatuck River Review, issue 2, page 20:

  We are going to New York City to see Nina Simone at the Apollo. We’re taking the Path train across the river and then the subway uptown.

• 2011 August 12, Gerald Earl “G-Eazy” Gillum, “Runaround Sue”, The Endless Summer, independent record label:

  If you played at the Apollo, you’d be the type of act that I would boo off stage while I throw you a tomato