Manhattan Strip Clubs: New York Post
How I Helped Write the Best Tabloid Headline Ever
30 years later, “Headless Body in Topless Bar” is still a New York classic.
HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR is the most famous headline in New York City tabloid history. It appeared on the front page of the New York Post in the spring of 1983 after a holdup man killed the owner of a strip club in Queens and then inexplicably forced one of the patrons to cut off the victim’s head. I didn’t write that legendary headline, but I played a part in its creation.
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But Musetto and I had a problem that afternoon. No one was really sure at that point if it was a topless bar or not. It obviously needed to be a topless place for the headline to work. We needed to confirm that, and we needed to do it in a hurry to get it in the paper. Everything was riding on that one missing fact.
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