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How's that for a café?

Claes Britton | Nov 2, 2005 | 0 comments

What do Mick Jagger, Madonna, Jennifer Lopez, David Bowie, Prince, Robert De Niro, Eminem, Back Street Boys, HM King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden, Britney Spears, Axl Rose, Outcast, Paris Hilton, Mariah Carey, Kevin Costner, Spice Girls, Björn Borg, Metallica, Evander Holyfield, Rocco Sifredi, ABBA, Harrison Ford, Public Enemy, AC/DC, Liam Gallagher, Tiger Woods, Kate Moss, Sylvester Stallone, Keith Richards, HM Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden, Wayne Gretzky, Yoko Ono, Luciano Pavarotti, Dennis Hopper, Dizzie Gillespie, Destinys Child, Terence Conran, George Soros, Cindy Crawford, Julio Iglesias, Teresa Orlowski, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Oliver Stone, Anna Nicole Smith, Vitali Klitjko, Grace Jones, Naughty By Nature, Victoria Silvstedt, Björk, HM Queen Silvia of Sweden, Mickey Rourke, Richard Attenborough, Robbie Williams, Elton John, Christina Aguilera, Neil Young, Princess Madeleine, Janet Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Michael Schumacher, Will Smith, Prince Carl Philip, Tanya Hansen, U2, Marc Newson, Figo, Samantha Fox, Iron Maiden, Lenny Kravitz and so many more share in common? Well, they're all old guests of Stockholm's world famous/notorius nightclub Café Opera, for one thing. They all used to love it there, as the placed rocked as hard or harder than anything elsewhere and as Stockholm used to be one town where even the brightest of stars could get down and party with the common man (and woman…) without beeing harassed or even bothered. Re-visiting ”The Café” for our forthcoming book/magazine hybrid celebrating Café Opera's 25-year anniversary has proven with no remorse that those days are now long gone. ”The Café” of today is like a scene not from another time but from another age. Barely anything of ”the old Café” has survived. Still, the club is still alive and kicking, while most of its contemporary heavyweights, the likes of Studio 54 in New York and Les Bains Douches in Paris, have faded or succumbed. Surviving a quarter century on the top of nightlife is a feat well worthy of a salute. Keep your eyes open for the book/magazine if you're interested in coming along on a break-neck trip through the Stockholmian night, past and present!


”We used to say that we wanted to create a meeting place for people who ski in the summer and sail in the winter”.
- Anders Gunnarsson, founding chief of Stockholm's Café Opera.


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