ThrowbackThursday from the #MonmouthCountyArchives Division: Liberace Displays His Famous Rings at Press Conference
“The King of Bling,” Wladziu Valentino Liberace (1919-1987), was in the midst of a week-long engagement at the Garden State Arts Center in Holmdel when this unpublished photo was taken by Red Bank Register photographer Don Lordi (a variant accompanied an article on September 2, 1981).
With extravagant flair, “Mr. Showman ship” averaged more than $5 million per year earnings for twenty-five years. Twice- voted, “Best Dressed Entertainer,” his million-dollar wardrobe could be viewed at the Liberace Museum in Las Vegas, which closed in October 2010. On tour with “The Glitter Man” in 1981 was his 23-year-old Scottish protégé, the multi-talented vocalist and instrumentalist Domenick Allen (to the right of Liberace in the photo), who toured with him for four years. In 2011, Allen sang and played guitar in a classic rock show, “VINYL,” at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas.
Source: The Monmouth County Archives’ “Red Bank Register: Forty Photographs” Catalog: https://www.monmouthcountyclerk.com/…/exhibit-catalogs…/
Original source can be found here.
