People I knew that went there NEVER mentioned the celebrities - isn't it true that it was the anonymous people that were the interesting ones? That was what was so great about disco - anybody could be an icon (the Sat. Night Fever theory, I guess, though that movie was NOT like Studio 54!) and yet most people didn't know who you really were, so there was that elusiveness - the coolest people-watching ever: how they dressed, danced, mingled, didn't mingle - it was fascinatilng!
@lovetrain442 You are a little slow, no? Hahaha! BillyNYC 25?? That's funny. Go back and READ his posts...then maybe go to his website...just a suggestion...
@musicbabylove1 Are U fucking serious? You could bend them over or spin em around any where UR hard on desired
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Any thing you wanted to do there was cool...no one cared 1 Iota...& if you needed a mirror & a straw the Bartender would give you one and ask you how you liked your straw cut aka 45 degrees or 90 degree cut then clean up a mirror & place it on the bar for ya like it was a fucking bottle of chaimpain
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And then there was the UPPER LEVEL Bleaches ... god dam dude u have no Idea
dam the only original club that is left in ny is the ice palace on fire island the crowd is the same striaight, bi , gay everyone gets along , my record time in getting laid at studio54 was met this hot babe and got laid in 15min lol dam i wonder what her name was lol
@BillyNYC I'd be there. I'd hop the first flight to NYC. LOL. I was just a baby during 54 and didn't really find disco music until well after the craze faded. To me, music like "The Break" by Kat Mandue and Cerrone is music that touches the soul. it is sensual and energetic at the same time. Durring those days, women were sexy and beautiful without being slutty, and the men were men. and that world co-mingled with the gay world freely and without pretense. I wish I could have experienced 54.
i remember standin' in a queue outside Robinsons, of all places:) and the guy runnin' the club pickin' who he wanted..we said, "fxxk this" (before we were insulted:)) and headed to Shine
Okay, we all know now that Studio 54 in its 'pre-tax evasion' heyday was a bacchanalian cokefest that made Caligula look like Mister Rogers. But I will not lie to you...I've seen two documentaries about this magical place, and I would have loved to have checked it out. At least ONCE. This club and the Paradise Garage are the two most influential and groundbreaking large-scale nightclubs that have ever existed in the history of nightlife. Neither will ever be duplicated - Ever.
Wow, that nightclub was ahead of its time. The funny thing is, it started something bigger, I attended a 12,000 people rave party 2006, people didn't care if you were straight, gay, bi, trans, everyone was cool and loved the music, living in the moment.
@crap1453 Your video, including the choice of music and the actual scenes, captures the look and feel of 1978-1979 more than anything else on YouTube. The girl twirling around in the yellow dress (her facial expression is SO 70's), the guy drinking from the bottle right on the dance floor, the couple spinning each other around, the gay guys dancing with their jeans that looked like they were sprayed on, it all far surpasses today's vicarious (& boring) realilty/celebrity-watching culture.
@giaisbomb That was a man and his name was "Angel Jack" from San Francisco and was with a great theater group called The Cockets! - Billy Smith (BillyNYC)
@blinkzone1 One didn't have to wait to go home for some action. he probably fucked her right there. nobody gave a shit, if you wanted to suck, fuck do drugs whatever you felt like doing you did it. we where not living in a fascist tea party dominated state. we where free. from your reaction you can tell you have never lived free. how sad that it all came to a crashing end with the arrival of reagan and aids.
Just for the record - at 2:30 - 2:34, the bearded guy in the tight jeans and sleeveless shirt dancing with a guy wilth no shirt on (I think) is a more characterstic visual of late 70's disco than any polyester-clad Travolta look-alike. Could never figure out why you would wear a suit with all that sweaty dancing (Fiorucci jeans - yeah!).
too bad, I was about 12 or 13 years old at the time this place closed down. I heard about it as a kid and was always curious as to why it was so popular. I wish I could of been there. Drugs and pussy? Who can resist that?
i don't think it mattered if you were gay, straight or dike LOL you could not tell LOL if it has an apple it has a banana, i could not tell sometimes it just looked like a basket LOL and a woman figure LOL min 1:38
@BillyNYC How do you know so much about it? Your profile says your only 25. You weren't even born before it closed!! You never paid out a thing because you couldn't have been there.
@BlacknWhitesAlright Im sorry if I offended you. What I said was terrible, and I deleted my comment. Really that's not what I meant to say. But I realize someone reading it would think otherwise. It's funny bc I am pro gay rights, and it was just the words came out wrong. What I was trying to say was studio 54 was a place where millionaires would dance side by side with people off the street. I'm sorry if I said anything you took offensively. I really am, though from the bottom of my heart.
Those people from the Studio 54 era, alot of them have passed away due to the new Hiv/Aids std and many people at that time did not know about it, and there were no meds to stop it from killing poeple. Katmandu - The Break is a great song, video well done.
Disco music was short lived and the prime years of the high energy disco was from 1976 -1980, when disco died it made a come back as 1980s high energy like Lime, Waterfront Home, Miquel Brown, Hazel Dean, Etc. At that time the music scene was already divided when New wave became big, Also the early rap. Disco in 1985 became Italo, like Paul Lekakis, and Tom Hooker. Shortly after House came around in 1986
A little help, can someone please tell me what is the name of the film that 1:09 came from? It's the draq queen giving out cocaine! Much thanks. Would have loved to gone there..but I would have died!!
Bridge and Tunnel killed Disco....aka Saturday Night Fever.....Bridge and Tunnel=Anyone who must use a bridge or tunnel to gain access to Manhattan unless they live in Brooklyn,Queens,and The Bronx...
Bridge and Tunnel Also killed Bottle Service Clubs,House music,and NYC nightlife in general.
Bridge and Tunnel=Guidos, Sheeple,and John Travolta
I partied at 54 back in the early 80's before it closed, it was alot of fun, though I'm sure it wasn't like the the 70's. I knew rubell a little, by this time he was mellow of course he was dying from aids anyone who says that this doesn't look fun needs there fucking head examined, god I would have loved to have been old enough to be there, so free everyone having the time of there life, this place was the BOMB everyone wanted to be there, steve was smart he marketed that way.
crap1453, excellent job on this tribute. Whata place and the music !! 1st time I showed up there was in shorts straight off a plane from Miami, walked 15 blocks from the hotel. Had no trouble getting in. South Florida had its great clubs (Faces, Casanovas, Pete and Lennys, etc) but 54 was #1, well worth the trip. Thanks for the memories . . .
When STUDIO 54 first opened the excitement was unbelievable... the place was "NEW" as if it were built just for us to dance there... and not some dirty dump... everyone I went with felt like "THEY ARRIVED". And we didn't want it to end... some of us kept going long after it was over... even to the parties in the 90s.... because we wanted to capture the original fun we had there.... it was simply AMAZING. HALLOWEEN NEW YEARS EVE VALENTINES NIGHT OR A TUESDAY see next page
@keitaru SADLY it only lasted a few years.... they tried to keep it going but I think lots of things ruined it, my opinion for starts: AIDS changed the way most people partied. Today people don't think about AIDS as much.... people died from it and now I guess its manageable... but like all other clubs throughout history most of them dont last.... some have though but of course nothing stays the same. I would go tonight if STUDIO were open but it would not be the same
And the zeitgeist of the Era which made those people party like they did are lost forever. But I think one could re-create some of the feel of it today though.
@daveandcliff Actually, it was Studio 54 that messed up disco. Disco was born from the underground and 54 was not so much about the music as it was the people.
@bigpoppa206 well i do agree that studio 54 was not the creation of disco....the 1st song as i remember was "love to love you baby", the 17 min version. And disco was born underground. It was 54 that channeled it and brought it to the forefront and then it was about the people, because in the beginning of any new craze or movement someone or something has to be the catalyst to get others on board, that is where 54 came into play with the disco era.
@daveandcliff No, actually by the time 54 opened disco was already on its way out. I know I was spinning then and have been the whole time since 1976. There were plenty of disco hits before Donna Summer. But they were all underground. Donna would probably be one of the first disco pop hits in that it was played on the radio.
@bigpoppa206 Disco was hardly on its way out in 1977. 1978 I think was the top year when it came to how many discos were in operation in the US, also the top year when it came to disco radio stations. But in the spring of 1979 was the top when regarding record sales with Disco totally dominating the billboard pop charts, don't forget the famous Newsweek cover in April 1979 Donna Summer with the headline "Disco Takes Over". I would say the peak were the winter of 78/79.
@daveandcliff The disco craze actually started back in the late 60s. By the time Saturday Night Fever came out, the producers of the movie were nervous because they had already heard the rumors of disco dying. I think 54 did something for the movement, it helped drive it back underground. 54 was all about the audience, not teh music. Ask anyone who lived in New York at the time, if you wanted music, you went to the Paradise Garage and saw Larry Levan.
@bigpoppa206 Studio were more important as a disco icon internationally, than as a place that innovated musically. For many outside the US Studio was the place to be emulated.
the discos of the late 70's early 80's were great places where gays, straights, drags etc mixed and had a ball! look at how happy those people are. for those days again!
Agreed NYC lost its nightlife touch ever since Bungalow 8 and bottle service took over its all about money and not style thats why so many places open and close so quickly
Totally agree with you, I love being surrounded by gays & Drags, they're so much fun! I used to go to gay clubs in Montreal in the early 80's. I wish I had gone to 54 in the late 70's, unfortunately I went only in 84" and it wasn't the same!
@best1forward - Oh so very true, I am so happy i lived thought it all and the best time in my life - not that I am not having a great time now, happy I did it when I was young. - Billy Smith (BillyNYC) go to my web site and learn more about me... "Billy Amato"
Right...I was seven years old when Studio 54 closed down. So...I don't think I was there all that much. I wasn't particularly arguing FOR them as much as AGAINST rave culture.
Just for historical accuracy, coke was the ubiquitous drug of choice no doubt, but it was also a bar which served alcohol, you can also see people sucking nitrous, and there would've been a lot of quualudes, speed, pot, 8 balls, and probably even acid. So, I really doubt that you could say Studio 54 drug use wasn't as hard as some fruity herbal ecstacy binge by little johnny at the idiotic rave.
Just for historical accuracy herbal ecstacy was just hype, if you had gone to the back of the warehouse it look like a pharmacy adderals, concertas, acid, special-K, GHB, dustangels, crack you name it and of course the staple ecstacy, meth..and coke...nitrous please...that ain't no drug, just experimenting... studio 54 all hype..
Why not list Tylenol and your mom's Xanex? I don't understand your point- I listed some drugs, then you listed some. Same shit different era. I think the difference was at Studio it was adults using and at the raves it was typically teens and people in their early twenties. The real issue is that all dance club atmospheres suck, but at least the Disco had character and took musical skill and talent to make as opposed to any form of electronica which is just computer muzak over a 4/4 bass beat.
the real electronic music begins when the producer jumps out of the 4/4 scale to produce dynamic rythms & sounds to complete one uniqe harmonic Scene made by drum boxers, synths, efects & analogue sounds
the youngest person to ever go in the club was Janet Jackson and she was 10 at the time she talks about it on the episode of tyra she was on in 2008..she said she'd see people putting white stuff in their nose and thought it was flour...and I have seen pictures of Michael Jackson in their with that lady Liz. and Latoya Jackson was in there too
wow shame i was too young to go but my uncle did go and told me some stories that were unbelievable about the place and went there recently (it's the roundabout theater now) and we went to see a play there and only he was not looking at the play looking above him and to each side of the building saying well i remember what happened there and there etc just amazing
I give homage to Studio 54 for being the first venue to make nightclubbing an 'event'. Yes, there were nightclubs before Studio 54 came on the scene in 1977...several of them actually. But Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager took it to a whole new level, the likes of which will never be seen again. I agree 100% with y2kmalone that the Paradise Garage was the best nightclub EVER. But Studio 54 gets the credit for giving the idea of 'a night on the town' a 'larger than life' connotation first.
ΤΑ ΠΑ ΝΤΑ ΜΠΟΡΟΥΣΑΝ ΝΑ ΣΥΜΒΟΥΝ ΕΚΕΙ. ΠΑΝΩ ΣΤΙΣ ΙΛΛΟΥΣΤΡΑΣΣΙΟΝ ΕΠΙΦΑΝΕΙΕΣ ΟΙ 'ΕΠΙΦΑΝΕΙΣ' ΔΙΚΗΝ ΔΙΑΣΚΕΔΑΣΗΣ ΑΠΟΚΑΛΥΠΤΑ ΤΑΝ ΤΑ ΠΑΘΗ ΤΟΥΣ. ΩΡΑΙΟ ΘΕΜΑ ΓΙΑ ΡΕΠΟΡΤΑΖ.
This video is GREAT! The song AMAZING! I've seen it like 6 times in a row and love it every time more. People did really know how to enjoy themselves back then, it's like they went out to really dance and not hook up with people like now days. Great days...
Loved watching this. I've always felt a connection to this period of time. Sadly, Studio 54 was not a harmless place. A lot of people have died subsequent to those days; whether from drug abuse or AIDS. Anyone still here to tell the tale is blessed. Still, it would be fantastic to have been a fly on the wall in that place!
I was lucky one Sat. night I was wearing a pair of gold (lame color) expensive Italian loafers & Marck saw me coming out of a cab and and asked me : how many with you..? I replied three of us .... and the rest was history...
Mario Melian was a 17 year old Dominican, that was a regular at Studio 54 in 1978. One night, Mario wore blue satin disco shorts got on the speakers and lit a sparkle and danced all night. Later he danced with Disco Sally. Potassa was a beautiful sultry drag queen that ruled many nights at Studio 54.
Some kind of gimmick would get you in. Once I just showed up in a tux with my date in a floor length formal, I tipped the doorman a 20 and we got in. Drag queens usually had very little problem getting in. Fun ,different and THE place to see and be seen, but never was all it was cracked up to be. Lousy drinks.
I baby sat Steve Rubell at the Maxwell Federal Prison after he got busted. Place reeked of pot. Lot more S---- going on. upstairs that most couln't get in to. I used to like it.
If some one came to me and asked if there was anywhere in history that I wanted to suddenly go...I would say right there!! I'm so mad that I missed it. Everybody out partying these days is really tacky and all about silly things.
I always had good shoes (Jourdan, Bally or Gucci), Fiorucci Jeans, T-shirts... and the fact I was a teenager who looked like a teenager didn't hurt either!
I agree with youbut it was the Hype place to be in that era, Now House Music has become more sophisticated with a Disco feel to it, especially on beach clubs on the Med like Nikki Beach Clubs in Marbella and St Tropez etc which is the place to be during summer on the Mediterranean. I guess every decade and era is different and has its charm about it.
you know , I have a place in Mijas just up the road from Nikki Beach, Now I have kids and all that have never ventured down.. And thought it may be all young kids..
Maybe when I go out there next month will pay it a visit.,,,
I like how Steve told someone he had to get rid of his hat. We don't allow people with hats in here!
supermandisco 2 days ago
pasa el tiempo y la epoca de oro sigue aun en nuestras mentes, miro este video una y otra vez y no me canso de mirarlo,gracias por compartirlo.
manuel17970 1 week ago
Dam it I wanted to go there but even at age 22 my mom told me I wasnt allowed and since I lived with her it was her rules DAMIT!
jerzeytpke 3 weeks ago
People I knew that went there NEVER mentioned the celebrities - isn't it true that it was the anonymous people that were the interesting ones? That was what was so great about disco - anybody could be an icon (the Sat. Night Fever theory, I guess, though that movie was NOT like Studio 54!) and yet most people didn't know who you really were, so there was that elusiveness - the coolest people-watching ever: how they dressed, danced, mingled, didn't mingle - it was fascinatilng!
radamik 2 months ago
@lovetrain442 You are a little slow, no? Hahaha! BillyNYC 25?? That's funny. Go back and READ his posts...then maybe go to his website...just a suggestion...
veromcnamee 3 months ago
@veromcnamee Don't call people slow! I will remove posts that are offensive!
crap1453 3 months ago
It sounds like background music for a "CHiPs" car chase scene.
Amar7605 3 months ago
did people really have sex on the dance floor in studio 54?
musicbabylove1 4 months ago
@musicbabylove1 Are U fucking serious? You could bend them over or spin em around any where UR hard on desired
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Any thing you wanted to do there was cool...no one cared 1 Iota...& if you needed a mirror & a straw the Bartender would give you one and ask you how you liked your straw cut aka 45 degrees or 90 degree cut then clean up a mirror & place it on the bar for ya like it was a fucking bottle of chaimpain
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And then there was the UPPER LEVEL Bleaches ... god dam dude u have no Idea
HoodwinkedbyanAngel 4 months ago
Ummm whats the name of the song in the background though?
sconex 4 months ago
@sconex Never mind..reading is fundamental
sconex 4 months ago
i love the fact that you don't need a couple to dance!!!
cajotreto 6 months ago
dam the only original club that is left in ny is the ice palace on fire island the crowd is the same striaight, bi , gay everyone gets along , my record time in getting laid at studio54 was met this hot babe and got laid in 15min lol dam i wonder what her name was lol
fishnchix1 6 months ago
1:09 sly move!!!! lol Better than Amy Winehouse... : )
moznico 6 months ago
70's people knew how to Party..........
KozmoLouie 7 months ago
Where's the Moon with the big Coke spoon?
DetroitLives313 7 months ago
i used to bounch at this club it brings back so many
CoonNigga01 9 months ago
If it were around today, I could see GAGA performing there. She could bring this style back.
free2drm 9 months ago
@free2drm Very true - Shen be a hit with the Thursday and Sunday - group than to the Saturday B&T group.
BillyNYC 9 months ago
@BillyNYC I'd be there. I'd hop the first flight to NYC. LOL. I was just a baby during 54 and didn't really find disco music until well after the craze faded. To me, music like "The Break" by Kat Mandue and Cerrone is music that touches the soul. it is sensual and energetic at the same time. Durring those days, women were sexy and beautiful without being slutty, and the men were men. and that world co-mingled with the gay world freely and without pretense. I wish I could have experienced 54.
free2drm 9 months ago
That is one era & club i would have loved to DJ at least once.
djginyc 9 months ago
i remember standin' in a queue outside Robinsons, of all places:) and the guy runnin' the club pickin' who he wanted..we said, "fxxk this" (before we were insulted:)) and headed to Shine
TheDsmyth 9 months ago
where did you get all these clips?
partyguy1234 9 months ago
Okay, we all know now that Studio 54 in its 'pre-tax evasion' heyday was a bacchanalian cokefest that made Caligula look like Mister Rogers. But I will not lie to you...I've seen two documentaries about this magical place, and I would have loved to have checked it out. At least ONCE. This club and the Paradise Garage are the two most influential and groundbreaking large-scale nightclubs that have ever existed in the history of nightlife. Neither will ever be duplicated - Ever.
jbs431 9 months ago
Wow, that nightclub was ahead of its time. The funny thing is, it started something bigger, I attended a 12,000 people rave party 2006, people didn't care if you were straight, gay, bi, trans, everyone was cool and loved the music, living in the moment.
Being true to oneself is very special.
MRMILO57 9 months ago
1:40 is funny when the guy creeps up on that chick. i bet that dude took her home for some action.
blinkzone1 10 months ago
@blinkzone1 That chick is transvestite/drag queen/model Potassa. But I bet your right they probably f-ckd their brains out!
crap1453 10 months ago 4
@crap1453 well thats one lucky guy hahahahaha
buggeazy102 9 months ago
@crap1453 Very true, I now her (him) - whatever it was all good back than, not like today where you can't, can't can't...... Billy Smith (BillyNYC).
BillyNYC 9 months ago
@crap1453 Your video, including the choice of music and the actual scenes, captures the look and feel of 1978-1979 more than anything else on YouTube. The girl twirling around in the yellow dress (her facial expression is SO 70's), the guy drinking from the bottle right on the dance floor, the couple spinning each other around, the gay guys dancing with their jeans that looked like they were sprayed on, it all far surpasses today's vicarious (& boring) realilty/celebrity-watching culture.
radamik 2 months ago
@radamik Thanks!
crap1453 2 months ago
@crap1453 probly was so drunk and high wouldnt have known the difference anyway until the next morning lol
buggeazy102 1 month ago
@blinkzone1 ---I saw that. I thought chick was Bianca Jagger. Did you see the older woman sharing a coke spoon with some guy? LOL...
giaisbomb 9 months ago
@giaisbomb That was a man and his name was "Angel Jack" from San Francisco and was with a great theater group called The Cockets! - Billy Smith (BillyNYC)
BillyNYC 9 months ago
@blinkzone1 BTW - that "chick" is a drag queen, a guy.... LOL!
BillyNYC 9 months ago
@blinkzone1 Sure they didn't go home, they just went in the toilet and got it on.
TWENTIETHCENTURYBABY 8 months ago
@blinkzone1 One didn't have to wait to go home for some action. he probably fucked her right there. nobody gave a shit, if you wanted to suck, fuck do drugs whatever you felt like doing you did it. we where not living in a fascist tea party dominated state. we where free. from your reaction you can tell you have never lived free. how sad that it all came to a crashing end with the arrival of reagan and aids.
mrprman 4 months ago
Just for the record - at 2:30 - 2:34, the bearded guy in the tight jeans and sleeveless shirt dancing with a guy wilth no shirt on (I think) is a more characterstic visual of late 70's disco than any polyester-clad Travolta look-alike. Could never figure out why you would wear a suit with all that sweaty dancing (Fiorucci jeans - yeah!).
radamik 10 months ago
too bad, I was about 12 or 13 years old at the time this place closed down. I heard about it as a kid and was always curious as to why it was so popular. I wish I could of been there. Drugs and pussy? Who can resist that?
notadjfor1 10 months ago
I rang in New Years 1979 there.One of the best times I ever had!
SCREENINGROOM3 10 months ago
There will never be another Studio 54. The magical temple of disco lives on forever in our hearts.
MrAlexAllan 11 months ago
@MrAlexAllan IM glad iwas there. You are right . there could never be another
ps IM not the actress IM just afan
joancollins54 10 months ago
i don't think it mattered if you were gay, straight or dike LOL you could not tell LOL if it has an apple it has a banana, i could not tell sometimes it just looked like a basket LOL and a woman figure LOL min 1:38
ajr0988 11 months ago
i prefer soul train
purplelove010 11 months ago
It was all free - The Coke, weed, cocks and pussy. I never paid out a thing.
BillyNYC 1 year ago 9
@BillyNYC With all that free cock and pussy who could resist? ;)
crap1453 1 year ago
@BillyNYC Don't you wish those days back :-))))))))
qsbird 11 months ago
@BillyNYC How do you know so much about it? Your profile says your only 25. You weren't even born before it closed!! You never paid out a thing because you couldn't have been there.
lovetrain442 8 months ago
luismoreno.from venezuela.even i was akid.same shit never pay to get in.all for free i gess i was lucky
luismorenoguia 5 months ago
There will never be another Studio 54 as i know it.....
Billy Smith - NYC
BillyNYC 1 year ago
1:08 is that a spoon she's snorting with?
0hN0y0ud1dnt 1 year ago
every body doing coke big time drug in those days
JPDK159 1 year ago
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BillyNYC 1 year ago
I love the dancing of the guy in the minute 2:18
soooooooooooooooo sexy
trigueful 1 year ago
@trigueful I like what they do at 1:09 HILARIOUS yep that is original 70's F R E E D O M
qsbird 1 year ago
I love the dancing of the guy in the minute 2:18
sooooo sexy
trigueful 1 year ago
Elite asswipes who wouldn't let you in unless you were a top celeb or a tranny at the time! I'm still shocked they let the Ramones in!
MrChattyO 1 year ago
Ah, the hedonism.... :)
Diskoboy1974 1 year ago 2
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dirtynuke 1 year ago
@dirtynuke Yes, because transgender people are "trashy" - wait, what?
BlacknWhitesAlright 1 year ago
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dirtynuke 1 year ago
@BlacknWhitesAlright Im sorry if I offended you. What I said was terrible, and I deleted my comment. Really that's not what I meant to say. But I realize someone reading it would think otherwise. It's funny bc I am pro gay rights, and it was just the words came out wrong. What I was trying to say was studio 54 was a place where millionaires would dance side by side with people off the street. I'm sorry if I said anything you took offensively. I really am, though from the bottom of my heart.
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dirtynuke 1 year ago
this music genre reminds alot of house music.
catbearlol 1 year ago 3
@catbearlol Disco>Hi NRG>Acid House>House
rlolalleskapot 1 year ago
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@catbearlol Disco>Hi NRG>Acid House> House
rlolalleskapot 1 year ago
This song is entrancing
free2drm 1 year ago
This is one time and place I'd like to time travel back to (assuming I'd get past security of course). Thanks for posting this wonderful compilation.
QueenMab214 1 year ago 8
Those people from the Studio 54 era, alot of them have passed away due to the new Hiv/Aids std and many people at that time did not know about it, and there were no meds to stop it from killing poeple. Katmandu - The Break is a great song, video well done.
floridapig 1 year ago
Disco music was short lived and the prime years of the high energy disco was from 1976 -1980, when disco died it made a come back as 1980s high energy like Lime, Waterfront Home, Miquel Brown, Hazel Dean, Etc. At that time the music scene was already divided when New wave became big, Also the early rap. Disco in 1985 became Italo, like Paul Lekakis, and Tom Hooker. Shortly after House came around in 1986
floridapig 1 year ago
@floridapig
True, but thank god the disco aesthetic found it's way into r & b in the early 80'!
That is truly some of the best music ever made.
Hi-NRG in comparison, was stiff, cheezey and souless. Italo was even worse (mainly because of the krappy vocals)
SPAZZOID100 1 year ago
putin la belle époque.j'ai vu le film.trop classe.sexe drog alcool
deff72 1 year ago
Watch the solo dancing at 2:16. I love it!!!
grebnavs80 1 year ago 2
A little help, can someone please tell me what is the name of the film that 1:09 came from? It's the draq queen giving out cocaine! Much thanks. Would have loved to gone there..but I would have died!!
MIssStrutter 1 year ago
Disco 54 was creepy!!
carlymypup 1 year ago
Bridge and Tunnel killed Disco....aka Saturday Night Fever.....Bridge and Tunnel=Anyone who must use a bridge or tunnel to gain access to Manhattan unless they live in Brooklyn,Queens,and The Bronx...
Bridge and Tunnel Also killed Bottle Service Clubs,House music,and NYC nightlife in general.
Bridge and Tunnel=Guidos, Sheeple,and John Travolta
TheNYCutube 1 year ago
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THE NAME OF THIS SONG PLEASE
guardiano79 1 year ago
I partied at 54 back in the early 80's before it closed, it was alot of fun, though I'm sure it wasn't like the the 70's. I knew rubell a little, by this time he was mellow of course he was dying from aids anyone who says that this doesn't look fun needs there fucking head examined, god I would have loved to have been old enough to be there, so free everyone having the time of there life, this place was the BOMB everyone wanted to be there, steve was smart he marketed that way.
readynow12345 1 year ago
Has been the best time of my life
MrGiovanniscotti 1 year ago
The dance at 1:12 LOL so 1970's
Studio 54 is legend!
SuzaneVonRichthofen 1 year ago
THE NAME OF THIS SONG PLEASE
SOLOAS 1 year ago
STUDIO 54!!!! I WANTED TO BE THERE!!!!!! I IMAGINE THAT IT WAS AMAZING AND OUTRAGEOUS TO STAY THERE!!!! WOPW!!!1
Krios150884 1 year ago
crap1453, excellent job on this tribute. Whata place and the music !! 1st time I showed up there was in shorts straight off a plane from Miami, walked 15 blocks from the hotel. Had no trouble getting in. South Florida had its great clubs (Faces, Casanovas, Pete and Lennys, etc) but 54 was #1, well worth the trip. Thanks for the memories . . .
Joebaggindoughnut 1 year ago
omg!! At 0:58 thats Arthur and Kevin! Great drag queens i use to party with. We were at Studio every night together. I think they're dead. rip.
hardrich2 1 year ago
@hardrich2 Did you see steve rubell on a regular basis? What was he like?
4841253 1 year ago
ei man....staseraaaaaaaa!
TheNickmaltese 1 year ago
0:50 john mayer traveled back in time and someone caught him on film.
illuminatioracle 1 year ago
When STUDIO 54 first opened the excitement was unbelievable... the place was "NEW" as if it were built just for us to dance there... and not some dirty dump... everyone I went with felt like "THEY ARRIVED". And we didn't want it to end... some of us kept going long after it was over... even to the parties in the 90s.... because we wanted to capture the original fun we had there.... it was simply AMAZING. HALLOWEEN NEW YEARS EVE VALENTINES NIGHT OR A TUESDAY see next page
joancollins54 1 year ago
@joancollins54 Where is this Studio 54? Still exist today?
keitaru 1 year ago
@keitaru SADLY it only lasted a few years.... they tried to keep it going but I think lots of things ruined it, my opinion for starts: AIDS changed the way most people partied. Today people don't think about AIDS as much.... people died from it and now I guess its manageable... but like all other clubs throughout history most of them dont last.... some have though but of course nothing stays the same. I would go tonight if STUDIO were open but it would not be the same
joancollins54 1 year ago
@joancollins54
i agree, if it was open i woud go, but it would not be the same.
because alot of the people from the 70s and 80s, who use to go there
are either gone or they are older and do not party anymore.
the people from back then are what made the club so fun and glamorous,
keisha78 1 year ago
@keisha78
And the zeitgeist of the Era which made those people party like they did are lost forever. But I think one could re-create some of the feel of it today though.
crap1453 1 year ago
@crap1453
i agree, it can be recreated to a good extent,
but it would be missing alot of the 70s and 80s celebrities.
there are not alot of celebrities today that could bring the fun and
excitment to the recreation of the club, except maybe a few.
keisha78 1 year ago
@keitaru ALSO WANTED TO POINT OUT I AM NOT THE DYNASTY ACTRESS so you all know
joancollins54 1 year ago
@joancollins54 I tried finding the VH1 coverage on studio 54 online but to no avail. Would like to see more of this Studio 54 from the 70s
keitaru 1 year ago
It is so wonderful that you've posted this compilation of the goings on at Studio. Bravo!
HvonS 1 year ago
Great !!! Many Thanks (StarskyDisco)
StarskyDisco 1 year ago
Wow you actually had room to dance.Seems most clubs I go today,you feel like a sardine,with no room to dance.
t5239857289578947594 1 year ago
wtf is this, a drag queen club? or tranny club?
Baldoxxx4000 1 year ago
@Baldoxxx4000
You need to do your disco homework, it's EVERYBODY!
bigpoppa206 1 year ago 2
My last CLIP : great tribute to DISCO sTUDIO 54 AND CERRONE
70xploitation 1 year ago
watch out for Rick James and his orange glowing aura!
378TPO 1 year ago
I miss studio 54, was soooo much fun.
daveandcliff 1 year ago
@daveandcliff I agree with that,good times.
lizardladyfla 1 year ago
@daveandcliff Actually, it was Studio 54 that messed up disco. Disco was born from the underground and 54 was not so much about the music as it was the people.
bigpoppa206 1 year ago
@bigpoppa206 well i do agree that studio 54 was not the creation of disco....the 1st song as i remember was "love to love you baby", the 17 min version. And disco was born underground. It was 54 that channeled it and brought it to the forefront and then it was about the people, because in the beginning of any new craze or movement someone or something has to be the catalyst to get others on board, that is where 54 came into play with the disco era.
daveandcliff 1 year ago
@daveandcliff No, actually by the time 54 opened disco was already on its way out. I know I was spinning then and have been the whole time since 1976. There were plenty of disco hits before Donna Summer. But they were all underground. Donna would probably be one of the first disco pop hits in that it was played on the radio.
bigpoppa206 1 year ago
@bigpoppa206 Disco was hardly on its way out in 1977. 1978 I think was the top year when it came to how many discos were in operation in the US, also the top year when it came to disco radio stations. But in the spring of 1979 was the top when regarding record sales with Disco totally dominating the billboard pop charts, don't forget the famous Newsweek cover in April 1979 Donna Summer with the headline "Disco Takes Over". I would say the peak were the winter of 78/79.
crap1453 1 year ago
@daveandcliff The disco craze actually started back in the late 60s. By the time Saturday Night Fever came out, the producers of the movie were nervous because they had already heard the rumors of disco dying. I think 54 did something for the movement, it helped drive it back underground. 54 was all about the audience, not teh music. Ask anyone who lived in New York at the time, if you wanted music, you went to the Paradise Garage and saw Larry Levan.
bigpoppa206 1 year ago
@bigpoppa206 Studio were more important as a disco icon internationally, than as a place that innovated musically. For many outside the US Studio was the place to be emulated.
crap1453 1 year ago
@crap1453
Studio 54 was actually a club that was going against the true disco concept--love, equality, acceptance.
Their door policy let us all know where they were coming from.
The Paradise Garage on the other hand, encompassed to true underground disco ethos.
SPAZZOID100 1 year ago
@SPAZZOID100 nikki haskell waz so hot then haaa???
now she LOOKS a mess due to plastic surgery .. sad!!!
italianoval 1 year ago
@italianoval
Really? post it - love to see what she looks like now - LOL!
BillyNYC 1 year ago
@BillyNYC just type her in and ull see ...
she looks a mess
but tell ya in the days of 70's iwould of loved to suck on her all over ha ha
italianoval 1 year ago
1:08 oops they caught me sniffin' coke
Abdullu 1 year ago
1:08 amazing cokeeee sniffff
vatnojokull 1 year ago
1000 thanks for this cool upload !!! epic ...
Terence1939 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Looks like the lamest place to be. Partying is fun, but this looks like it sucked. Junkies galore.
rocketsauced 1 year ago
esa si era musica, no como la de hoy..vivan los 70s y 80s!!
misitio2000 1 year ago 2
Halston!!!!! jayyy! :-)))
martinlindsgaard 1 year ago 2
the discos of the late 70's early 80's were great places where gays, straights, drags etc mixed and had a ball! look at how happy those people are. for those days again!
best1forward 2 years ago 33
@best1forward
Agreed NYC lost its nightlife touch ever since Bungalow 8 and bottle service took over its all about money and not style thats why so many places open and close so quickly
TheNYCutube 1 year ago
@best1forward internet killed the happiness
beltatex 1 year ago
@best1forward
Totally agree with you, I love being surrounded by gays & Drags, they're so much fun! I used to go to gay clubs in Montreal in the early 80's. I wish I had gone to 54 in the late 70's, unfortunately I went only in 84" and it wasn't the same!
barzouf94 1 year ago
@best1forward - Oh so very true, I am so happy i lived thought it all and the best time in my life - not that I am not having a great time now, happy I did it when I was young. - Billy Smith (BillyNYC) go to my web site and learn more about me... "Billy Amato"
BillyNYC 9 months ago
the Redd Parrot on 57th & 11th BLEW 54 right off the map ! ! ! !
now THERE was a class act club ! ! ! !
RIP Jimmy Merry ! ! ! !
reddheddjedd77 2 years ago
Right...I was seven years old when Studio 54 closed down. So...I don't think I was there all that much. I wasn't particularly arguing FOR them as much as AGAINST rave culture.
walterroy 2 years ago
Just for historical accuracy, coke was the ubiquitous drug of choice no doubt, but it was also a bar which served alcohol, you can also see people sucking nitrous, and there would've been a lot of quualudes, speed, pot, 8 balls, and probably even acid. So, I really doubt that you could say Studio 54 drug use wasn't as hard as some fruity herbal ecstacy binge by little johnny at the idiotic rave.
walterroy 2 years ago
Just for historical accuracy herbal ecstacy was just hype, if you had gone to the back of the warehouse it look like a pharmacy adderals, concertas, acid, special-K, GHB, dustangels, crack you name it and of course the staple ecstacy, meth..and coke...nitrous please...that ain't no drug, just experimenting... studio 54 all hype..
djmz1969 2 years ago
Why not list Tylenol and your mom's Xanex? I don't understand your point- I listed some drugs, then you listed some. Same shit different era. I think the difference was at Studio it was adults using and at the raves it was typically teens and people in their early twenties. The real issue is that all dance club atmospheres suck, but at least the Disco had character and took musical skill and talent to make as opposed to any form of electronica which is just computer muzak over a 4/4 bass beat.
walterroy 2 years ago 14
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djmz1969 2 years ago
the real electronic music begins when the producer jumps out of the 4/4 scale to produce dynamic rythms & sounds to complete one uniqe harmonic Scene made by drum boxers, synths, efects & analogue sounds
jonas2789 1 year ago
@walterroy Some electronic dance music is actually extremely complex - look up Aphex Twin and Kid 606 if you don't believe me.
BlacknWhitesAlright 1 year ago
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djmz1969 2 years ago
10 i thought i was young i was a big kid at 16 looked 24 shouldnt have been their i guess but when you know people... would do it all over again
weege713 2 years ago
the youngest person to ever go in the club was Janet Jackson and she was 10 at the time she talks about it on the episode of tyra she was on in 2008..she said she'd see people putting white stuff in their nose and thought it was flour...and I have seen pictures of Michael Jackson in their with that lady Liz. and Latoya Jackson was in there too
missbham205 2 years ago
this was david guetta in the 70's !
DjEstebanCarrasco 2 years ago
1:08 YEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSS!!!!!!! ^^
xuanxusep 2 years ago 5
Jajajaja! It's amazing what you could get away with in those days, imagine doing that now in a club!!!
inxsbcn 2 years ago 2
I do it.. ^^
xuanxusep 2 years ago
...Ibiza back in the 80s & 90s was quite similar....
DirkRAAAA 2 years ago
@hypnotistcharm
I want to come to one of your disco parties. I LOVE Disco music and love to dance to it.
vegasbaby92 2 years ago
Here in Los Angeles there are a few Promoters that have Hi Energy Disco Events.
KozmoLouie 2 years ago
wow shame i was too young to go but my uncle did go and told me some stories that were unbelievable about the place and went there recently (it's the roundabout theater now) and we went to see a play there and only he was not looking at the play looking above him and to each side of the building saying well i remember what happened there and there etc just amazing
gud11man 2 years ago 6
Waooo, Two places to party in the world...studio 54 and Le Palace in Paris..Please, let me to go back in 1977 !
olivierdevillequier 2 years ago 4
I give homage to Studio 54 for being the first venue to make nightclubbing an 'event'. Yes, there were nightclubs before Studio 54 came on the scene in 1977...several of them actually. But Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager took it to a whole new level, the likes of which will never be seen again. I agree 100% with y2kmalone that the Paradise Garage was the best nightclub EVER. But Studio 54 gets the credit for giving the idea of 'a night on the town' a 'larger than life' connotation first.
jbs431 2 years ago 4
yeah but THE FUNHOUSE was better trust me
run666 2 years ago
the Paradise Garage was the best
y2kmalone 2 years ago
Paradise Garage was #1
krooklyn77 2 years ago
RIP Steve Rubell.
Thanks for holding the greatest party ever.
I am sorry I missed it. :(
SoRedtheRose 2 years ago 5
OOOOooohhh CHILE!!!!!! I needa come over to one of your Parties!!! I'm in Long Beach not too far away!! i love 70's/early 80's dance music!!!!
funkyjaguilera 2 years ago
I bet they had such a laugh back in the day!!!
1988MILLWALL 2 years ago
classic
discofabe 2 years ago
To understand it you had to live it, it was a great era, music, people, less troubles and huzles than nowadays and why not we were happier with less.
rufarolo 2 years ago 4
ΤΑ ΠΑ ΝΤΑ ΜΠΟΡΟΥΣΑΝ ΝΑ ΣΥΜΒΟΥΝ ΕΚΕΙ. ΠΑΝΩ ΣΤΙΣ ΙΛΛΟΥΣΤΡΑΣΣΙΟΝ ΕΠΙΦΑΝΕΙΕΣ ΟΙ 'ΕΠΙΦΑΝΕΙΣ' ΔΙΚΗΝ ΔΙΑΣΚΕΔΑΣΗΣ ΑΠΟΚΑΛΥΠΤΑ ΤΑΝ ΤΑ ΠΑΘΗ ΤΟΥΣ. ΩΡΑΙΟ ΘΕΜΑ ΓΙΑ ΡΕΠΟΡΤΑΖ.
pennymellissini 2 years ago
alguin sabe como se llama la cancion que suena?
wmijo 2 years ago
se llama the break de kat man du
gud11man 2 years ago
GRACIAS SEÑOR!!
wmijo 2 years ago
deberia haber vivido esa epoca .........LOS 70
wmijo 2 years ago
This video is GREAT! The song AMAZING! I've seen it like 6 times in a row and love it every time more. People did really know how to enjoy themselves back then, it's like they went out to really dance and not hook up with people like now days. Great days...
inxsbcn 2 years ago 3
top dos tops eu querooooo
marcelotus 2 years ago
Loved watching this. I've always felt a connection to this period of time. Sadly, Studio 54 was not a harmless place. A lot of people have died subsequent to those days; whether from drug abuse or AIDS. Anyone still here to tell the tale is blessed. Still, it would be fantastic to have been a fly on the wall in that place!
lloydj74 2 years ago 4
Couldn't agree more :-)
inxsbcn 2 years ago 2
NOBODY COULD GET IN...
I was lucky one Sat. night I was wearing a pair of gold (lame color) expensive Italian loafers & Marck saw me coming out of a cab and and asked me : how many with you..? I replied three of us .... and the rest was history...
jorgenyc5 2 years ago 3
If anyone knows anyway that I can see VH1 Behind the music "Studio 54" or True Hollywood Story "studio 54" than please message me on here.
Pinksnotgoth 2 years ago 4
Mario Melian was a 17 year old Dominican, that was a regular at Studio 54 in 1978. One night, Mario wore blue satin disco shorts got on the speakers and lit a sparkle and danced all night. Later he danced with Disco Sally. Potassa was a beautiful sultry drag queen that ruled many nights at Studio 54.
bandstand54 2 years ago
Looks like undercover police footage to me.....rat finks
cosmosgod 2 years ago
Some kind of gimmick would get you in. Once I just showed up in a tux with my date in a floor length formal, I tipped the doorman a 20 and we got in. Drag queens usually had very little problem getting in. Fun ,different and THE place to see and be seen, but never was all it was cracked up to be. Lousy drinks.
I baby sat Steve Rubell at the Maxwell Federal Prison after he got busted. Place reeked of pot. Lot more S---- going on. upstairs that most couln't get in to. I used to like it.
Flamsick 2 years ago
If some one came to me and asked if there was anywhere in history that I wanted to suddenly go...I would say right there!! I'm so mad that I missed it. Everybody out partying these days is really tacky and all about silly things.
btimez1983 2 years ago 2
Bribes would get you banned.
I always had good shoes (Jourdan, Bally or Gucci), Fiorucci Jeans, T-shirts... and the fact I was a teenager who looked like a teenager didn't hurt either!
sofakingvile 2 years ago
i would like to party there!
farbsucht 2 years ago
I would have liked to have gone to Studio 54 just to see what it was like.
It does look a bit cheesy with men dancing in suits but I suppose that was the days of excess,, Drink, drugs , sex..
Still would not swap it for the Acid House Music era 80-90's and dance raves.. NOW that's what you call parties.. ;-)
pattyheno 2 years ago
I agree with youbut it was the Hype place to be in that era, Now House Music has become more sophisticated with a Disco feel to it, especially on beach clubs on the Med like Nikki Beach Clubs in Marbella and St Tropez etc which is the place to be during summer on the Mediterranean. I guess every decade and era is different and has its charm about it.
gardenalien 2 years ago
you know , I have a place in Mijas just up the road from Nikki Beach, Now I have kids and all that have never ventured down.. And thought it may be all young kids..
Maybe when I go out there next month will pay it a visit.,,,
pattyheno 2 years ago
... Go to the White Party at Nikki Beach.
gardenalien 2 years ago
makes more sense lol
formiguita1 2 years ago
so how come so many people in the video were not appealing to look at? lol
formiguita1 2 years ago 2
what were the requirements to get in?
formiguita1 2 years ago