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All of it started one February night time in 1989. Cesar de Melero was DJing within the Ars Studio membership in Barcelona when somebody informed him that the artist Keith Haring was outdoors however the doorman wouldn’t let him in.

“The place was packed, so I placed on a document and pushed by means of the gang,” De Melero advised the Guardian. “And there he was together with his saintly, harmless face and I informed the doorman to let him in and I stated to the boss: ‘Champagne for Keith Haring.’”