They house the most comprehensive collection of queer history in Canada, including video reels from the 80s.

As a cultural artifact, the video is significant not only for its technical quality but also for its historical importance. It provides a valuable resource for music fans, historians, and anyone interested in the music scene of the 1980s.

If you haven’t seen the grainy, color-saturated footage of the Palace 1985 Video , you have certainly felt its influence. Recently unearthed from a private collection in Monaco, this 47-minute promotional film—originally intended for an exclusive members-only club called Le Palace —offers a startlingly rigid blueprint for how the global elite structured their days and nights at the peak of the analog decade.

When you watch that video, you aren't watching a plot. You are watching a vibe. The entertainment value comes not from narrative tension, but from repetition. You watch Blondey switch stance. You watch Lucien slide a rail. You watch the grainy filter flicker. You watch it again.

The "fixed" video removes the faded magnetic tape look. Colorists reference period photographs to restore the specific palette of 1985: deep crimsons, teal highlights, and skin tones that look tan rather than jaundiced.

Compact Discs (CDs) were the new gold standard for audio purity. Dire Straits’ Brothers in Arms , released in May 1985, became the first album to sell a million copies on CD, providing the polished, "fixed" digital soundtrack for modern entertaining.