Close to midnight, four clean-cut fellas with mops for hair arrived in a white limousine and trudged into The Peppermint Lounge. It was cold in Miami that Thursday night: Feb. 13, 1964, four days ...

Peppermint Twist: The Mob, the Music, and the Most Famous Dance Club of the ’60s By Joel Selvin & John Johnson, Jr. with Dick Cami As far as dance crazes go, the Twist might go down (swiveling, of ...

Los Angeles journalist John Johnson and his co-author, Joel Selvin, have finished their book on the New York and Miami nightclubs where the mob discovered there was money in rock and roll music.

John Johnson Jr. and Joel Selvin with Dick Cami. St. Martin’s/ Dunne, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-58178-7 In the years just before a new dance called the Twist turned popular music around and created ...