Key Club To Close Next Week: Highlights From Its Rich Rock History On Sunset Strip

1998 - Key Club Opens

Luckily, after a two-year stint as Billboard Live, Gazzarri's reopened under the new name Key Club in 1998. Gone was the pay-to-play model, and the type of musical acts had come to include hip-hop, pop and electronic, but Gazzarri's fans who were teenagers in the 80s were psyched to satisfy their nostalgia and relive the glory days in the same venue at which they caught shows growing up. [via]