Girls, Girls, Girls – West Hollywood’s Legendary Strip Joint

Motley Crue’s video for their hit song “Girls, Girls, Girls” showed the four members cruising down Sunset Boulevard and visiting two of the street’s best-known strip clubs, the Body Shop and the Seventh Veil. This video came out in 1987 and brought attention to both clubs. More than 30 years later these businesses are still open, showing the lasting appeal of pretty ladies taking off their clothes.

These two are just the most enduring of such establishments that have a long history in West Hollywood, a city whose convenient location adjacent to the movie capital but outside the jurisdiction of the LAPD made it a hotspot for shady and illegal activities.

The most famous strip club in the area is the Body Shop on Sunset at Harper Avenue, which has been around since the 60s, making it the longest continually open strip club in West Hollywood. Even a 2008 fire that almost burned the place down couldn’t stop this still-popular all-nude club. With a reasonable cover charge and 200 dancers, the Body Shop is worth checking out, especially if you ever get nostalgic for the days of hair metal.

The Body Shop is the only one of these clubs I’ve actually seen the inside of. In 1975, I attended a record release party for the band War, back in the days when the music biz was at its wildest. I suspect that in these days of “me, too”, labels aren’t throwing PR parties in places where naked women are pouring jugs of wine over their bodies and Joe Cocker is falling out of a limo in the parking lot.