Whisky Galore

Whisky Galore is a novel written by Compton Mackenzie, published in 1947. It was adapted for the cinema under the title Whisky Galore!. The novel's title influenced the name of the first French discothèque, opened later in the same year of the book's publication by Paul Pacini, the Whisky à gogo, which, in turn, was influential in the naming of West Hollywood's Whisky a Go Go in 1958. It followed a 1943 novel Keep the Home Guard Turning in the same setting,