In 2011, a bartender named Joaquín Simó was working a shift at Death & Co, the celebrated cocktail bar on East Sixth Street in New York City, when LCD Soundsystem came on the speakers. The song was “Drunk Girls.” He was messing around with equal parts — a bartender’s shorthand for a drink built on four ingredients in identical measure — and had Aperol, yellow Chartreuse, mezcal, and fresh lime juice on his station. He put them together. It worked better than it had any right to. He named it after another LCD Soundsystem song, “Naked and Famous,” and put it on the menu.
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