The Bus Palladium, a mythical club and Parisian concert hall devoted to rock, will close its doors in March and be replaced by a hotel, its team announced on social networks on Friday.

"The Bus Palladium will definitely close its doors in mid-March 2022," says its artistic director Cyril Bodin on the club's Facebook page.

"The building will be razed to make way for a hotel but it is not impossible that the club will be reconstituted identically [...] but it will take 2 years of work minimum", according to him.

Until its closure, this top night and rock venue, in the Pigalle district, which belongs to the Moma group (events, catering) will remain “open to programming also during the week”.

The stars paraded there

Opened in 1965, the "Bus" was created by a duo, James Thibaut and James Arch, with the ambition of making it a place accessible to young people without a

dress code

, to dance to live music, resolutely rock.

They will set up a bus system, at low prices, to fill up with revelers in Paris.

At its beginnings, the "Bus" welcomed the painter Dali and friends who organized a banquet with still water, a sequence entered into legend, just like a song by Gainsbourg (

Qui est "in" qui est "out"

) where he declaims “it's at the Bus Palladium, that you can listen to it… rue Fontaine… there's a crowd, for the little guys from Liverpool”.

The room has also seen artists like Johnny Hallyday, Eddy Mitchell.

Stones frontman Mick Jagger celebrated a birthday there.

In the early 1980s, the club awarded prizes to the best French rockers, the Bus d'or.

Among its winners, Alain Bashung, Etienne Daho, Noir Désir, Indochine… The club was also honored in a film bearing its name, by Christopher Thomson, released in 2010.

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