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  • Damn! Michael Jackson could have hidden 4 boys in that fro!

  • i would have been getting high and fuckin till i droped dead

  • Just did an art project on Andy Warhol lol

  • Oh my, it's Mikhail Byrishnikov (spelling??) in clip 1:12-1:16...He also played 'Aleksandr' on Sex And The City ;)

  • IS this from a documentary about it? what''s it called and from what year is it?

  • MJ's Afro is HUGE! :o 

  • Its so weird seeing Truman Capote hanging with Debbie Harry.

    Debbie said in Studio 54 once she felt she had been spiked and when she awoke Liza Minnelli as well as other famous people were piled on top of her coked to the eyeballs and all out of it.

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  • The lawyer's name was "Roy" not Ray. This guy was the biggest hipocrite ever, he did whatever he could to bust people who believed in sexual freedoms. All the while he was a closet homosexual.

  • @macksfischer " talented for her own brand of style"

    What brand of style would that be ?  Copping off everyone elses style ? ha ha ha ha

  • @TejMulen lol

  • is grace jones in a hair salon or what lol

  • andy warhol =factory n edie sedwick....the silkscreened marylyns? :)

  • @TejMulen that is Andy Warhol, a very famous artist.

  • Police always screwing up people´s lives. Fuckers.

  • all the guys that busboy went around the world with died of aids...

  • OHMIGAWD HIS TESTICALS TOUCHED FREDDIE MERCURY'S TESTICALS?!

  • Michael <3 *_*

  • The place was full of coke but it was nice!! My uncle was there 2 times, during the 70s. What a lucky motherfucker. Too bad I am only 18, would be nice to be there.

  • the 70's were the stuff man. We took classes to get the steps down, jumpin up and down with our fists in the air just didn't cut it then. It was a cool time, and yes, we did a lot of drugs, and it was cool man,  The Bee Gees, Leif Garret, the 70's had flavor - today, there is no flavor.

  • alot of these people are dead from aids

  • It was all so cool...Maybe we can learn something from The 1970's....today......It's all about being nice and having a good time. Today people thrive on the poisen of talk radio...Back then talk radio would have been put off the air due to dangerous content......

  • OMG Truman was seriously Lit!! haha

  • Hahaha! Grace Jones is cool

  • What a Sea of Lust!

  • the 70s were great but i'm surprised we survived the 80s,drugs and sex were fuckin ramapant

  • well im not dead yet and i use to go to studio54 every weekend and i still party

  • This was a place of corruption. Moral and physical corruption. May God forgive these people.They were totally insane.

  • Most of them are sadly passed away by HIV. Some of them died for drugs overdose. Some of them went crazy and lost their mind. If this is what they mean for freedom, they're on the wrong way.

  • 3:36 Im thinking Calvin Klein...lol I hope I'm wrong....?! lol

  • It shouldn't have been closed down. So much for a fucking free country.

  • " a lot of people died in the 70s"

    WTF?? A LOT of people died in the 80s too, and the 90s ans what about these days?

    What a stupid thing to say, I feel Sorry for people who did not get to experience the 70s. We had a fuckin' blast, and yes, some of it was drugs and drinking, but a lot of it was not. We went out, danced and had fun. These days "fun" has a stick shoved up its butt. The 70s ROCKED.

  • @Discoboy504 I think you might just be saying that because you have grown older. Kids these days are having just as much fun as kids were in the 70s. And just so you know, people still "go out, dance and have fun." Haha!

  • @Discoboy504 I agree. I used to go to Studio and couldn't afford drugs or more than one drink per night! Kind of kept me honest in a way.

  • That waiter was in the mist of pure debauchery and decadence at Studio 54, but Andy Wahol's wig is what seemed off to him. Haha

  • Nothing is cool anymore. I'm sorry but drugs are what made these places awesome. To just go somewhere, take some pills and have a good time.

  • @LHarveySpades12 You are SO right man.I am So glad I knew what that was like. Everything is so "correct" these days.

  • Mick Jagger is still alive and all the old ladies in your church have diabetes.

  • why cant time machines be real i hate today

  • Steve Rubell was screwing Michael Jackson at this time. Michael called Steve "Daddy". I wonder if Jackson was HIV Pos?

  • @whangie1 

  • @whangie1 OH, what a piece of crap you must be to post this on here. You're like in your 20's live in the frickin UK and I'm most certain never been to studio 54, probably weren't alive, nor been to NY nor ever met Michael Jackson, Steve Rubell, etc...So...like, you're full of bull shit. Fuck off and stay on your own sleaze bag UK websites...get a life.

  • @christopherone1 So I would need to have went to Studio 54 to know about this? Complete crap.

  • It's really sad when a bunch of immoral dopers, faggots, and freaks die of overdose, AIDS, and hep. Ohhh wait, it's not. It's Karmha.

  • @iamslknick78 I find it's sadder that you're searching the internet to and watching videos about it. Always the homophobics who seek out everything about gay people, they're obsessed...hello, wonder why?!>>>>

  • @iamslknick78 huh...but yet look at you, here you are searching stuff about studio 54..imagine that...it's always the right wing nutjobs, 'god bless america' crap azz morons who search and seek anything and everything out about 'gays'...huh...wonder why? ignorant werido!

  • @christopherone1 I'm surfing. Why are you watching this video? Looking for new techniques on being a pervert?

  • @iamslknick78 Atleast spell it right (lol)

  • @sclapione "Atleast" isn't a word. "At least" is two words. If you want to correct spelling, work on your grammar. Furthermore what didn't I spell correctly? Keep your lol, to yourself as you have nothing to laugh at and you're just an idiot.

  • Is it me or is Truman Capote really friggin' creepy?

  • Before the Paps, before OK Magazine, before the word "Celebrity" became so cheap, before it all went so wrong.........................­...there was Studio 54

  • Andy Warhol looked like a Thunderbird puppet that had come to like! Freaky!

  • My mom and aunt used to go there...that explains me

  • Wish I grew up in Tat era:(

  • si Alfredo, ahi vi de todo un poco...o mucho jeje, fui amigote de andy y gracias a El entraba sin ningun problema, te puedo asegurar que nunca despues vi tanto descontrol como en el studio, ni siquiera aqui en Buenos Aires que esta desde hace tiempo bastante descontrolada, abrazo

  • @juan99348 ¡Qué suertudo, amigo!

  • Michael Jasckon is remembered a being a dysfunctional recluse, but in this video he seems very social. This is what happens when you isolate yourself and create your own dream world instead of participating in life.

  • soy daniel quiroga, argentino y tuve la suerte de frecuentar seguido ese maravilloso studio 54, aunque muchos ya han muerto, los sigo recordando y estan vivos en mi corazon....

  • @juan99348

    y por si akaso viste a Michael bailando ahí? :)

  • @juan99348

    -QUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE??????? viviste esa epoca en N.Y. eso si es una historia que contar!!!!!! cuanto glamour, cuanto exceso y gente famosilla debiste ver en esos tiempos.

  • I'm just 18 years old and so facinated with Studio 54! I wish it could be like this nowadays.

  • That was when NYC had friendly people who knew how to have fun. Nowadays it's just a bunch of angry, corporate whores trying to outdo each other.

  • @sam74 Soooooooo true Sam!!! The clubs were really loving and fiu back then, now its all about how fake can we be with our designer clothes and top each other, but back then it was all original, people were kool and dressed unique and were generous with each other, partied together, not at VIP tables...Everythings so spoiled now!

  • @sam74 OMG I am so agree w/ your comment, just realized it, it´s so true!

  • @sam74 True. Well said. But I'd leave London for NYC again in a heartbeat EVEN TODAY! LOL The only thing I'd miss about London right now is the great shopping!

  • michael jackson lo unico valioso de este video,,

  • Thank god they are dead & may any successors die in the womb or be aborted .

    What a bunch of losers,if you really think @ it.

    Just listen to Rubell's accent.A B & T' er if ever there was one.

    Stay in Queens next time.

    Don't ruin life for us real New York people.

  • Thank god they are dead & may any successors die in the womb or be aborted .

    What a bunch of losers,if you really think @ it.

  • those days when people knew how to party!!!!

  • Oh...and how typical that some bureaucratic bookworm lawyer has to be all high and mighty saying he closed it all down. Sucks that NYC nightlife suffered the same fate through Guliani's tyrade.

  • ... the busboy droppin dimes was Lenny, hes alive and partying. The club opened and closed under different owners, until about '86 tho it was never the same as the first 22months. Steve was one of the owners, not the sole prop. This clip is from a DanFilms documentary called "The Rise and Fall of Studio 54" for Britain's C-4 Network.

  • pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee give me a break, rip,,,,,,54

  • where did I we miss the mark ?

  • WHY ARE THERE PEOPLE ON HERE,OOO I BET THEY DIED.WITH THAT FUCKING ATTITUDE NO ONE WOULD HAVE FUN AND MAKE LIFE INTERESTING AND BEARABLE. I MYSELF WENT FUCKING MENTAL AND NEARLY PAID THE PRICE.BUT I DONT REGRET IT.THE MEMORIES ARE STILL THERE.

  • who ever the guy that was speaking of him having sex with brad davis and freddy murcery is prb dead from aids.

  • @Desiree50 I was thinking the same thing.

  • @8mycrab That is if the guy wasn't just bs'ing.

  • @Desiree50 Hopefully you will be dead of AIDS

  • Does anyone know where this clip is from? I've downloaded that Pump Up The Volume documentary about the history of disco and house music and I'm always looking for something similar. This seems to be some kind of show about just that.

    Would be great if some1 knew what this is. Or you can recommend sth else also.

  • Try BAN, FUNK IT, amazing new tune!!!

  • nothing can ever replace studio. we didn't call it studio 54, we called it studio. times has changed, the biggest celbrity had total and absolute confidence there. No one cared who he or she was with. we all partied like we were equals. there was no press, the celebs partied like people who were not going to be photographed. and not written up in te tablosids. it was a cool era and I am very proud to have been there. Much suffering afterward... that is another story.

  • @sandylinter1 Yeah, you are lucky to have been in that era. :) I'm 17 but I'm very fascinated by the 70s and 80s. Great times, but also some sad times.

  • @102ihateyou you're also lucky to be in this era

  • @daddyleon I'm lucky to be living yes, but in the 70s and 80s in my opinion everything was a lot better. The style, the music.....just fascinating.

  • I was there, I was there almost every night from the opening day to the closing day, there is not one moment that I can regret. And I cannot explain how fabulous it was, you just gotta believe, celebreities, I don't care who you were everyone, just partied. I never got over it, I just sort of live with the memories.....

  • @sandylinter1 Your lucky to have those memories! :) I wish they didn't get rid of so many great clubs in NYC, because our new generation really misses out. =/ Studio 54 was legend, and even though it's still there its not the same as it was years ago.......I'm sure nothing can ever replace that or even come close to Studio 54.

  • MJ is very sweet. Grace Jones - how fab is she!

  • @ 3:25 "Who is Calvin Klein?"

  • studio 54 lives on in the wonderful beautiful shining light of lady gaga. whah! xx

  • @hitlerbraun what a joke...

  • @MooseDG why is that a joke??? she is dripping studio 54...shes a mixture of Andy Warhol, David Bowie, Joan Crawford....she was only born nearly twenty years too late...and she is a shining light. and such an intelligent talented woman....ok Im biased....I do love her so much.....

  • @hitlerbraun Total joke ... Queen of the wannabe mainstream

  • Debbie Harry said "she woke up after being spiked to find liza minnelli asleep on top of her haha just crazy I would of loved to of been there around that time. Someone please build me a time machine and sprinkled it in glitter i've got a date with the 70s.

  • Studio 54 was the place to be if you wanted to let yourself be free from the ills of the world.

  • Yeah, people died in the 80's, the 90's, and even today....

  • Steve Rubell was a POS.

  • I WOULD BE FRYING MYSELF ON COKE EVERYNIGHT!!!

  • MJ!!

  • Disco is still King, and Studio 54 will always be the best nightclub to ever have existed. You know a nightclub is good when someone is stuck in that club's window for weeks DEAD!

    

  • Madonna was so young !!! See her with Steve (minute 3:24)

  • look this youtube.com/watch?v=Z1qO7NxkLR­E

  • ilias11972 look this

  • "Most of these people are dead from drugs"

    Yeah, from what I understand from my father, a lot of people died in the 70's.

  • @1990osu AIDS too......and coke plus etc

  • @1990osu and Aids too.

  • @1990osu I'm still aliveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­e

  • @1990osu yeah- lol. Wonder where the next generation came from. lol

  • @AIMANALI

    I think they came from people who weren't morons and didn't burn their brains out with drugs.

  • @1990osu Total rubbish - Don't spread lies

  • @1990osu I'm alive! I only went there once and my boyfriend and I were picked out of a long line waiting outside, I had the best time in my entire life.

  • @1990osu Actually, people are still dying even in 2011.

  • @clearcombat Everyone is going to die not matter what reason , i like your comment. Ty,

  • What a gooood-timesssss it were so gooooddddd, why the past won't back again no more?? Studio 54 will rest for ever in our heart!!!

  • I knew mike was alittle pervert.

  • Freedom, live!! make of having a good time a life style, that is just MARAVILLOSO

  • I think of studio54 and what it must have been like to be there in the heyday of the models, stars and the disco culture. The bright lights, the amazing music, and the carefree lifestyle. I feel robbed.

  • Real freedom, no papparazzi, fun. Where has all that gone? Me too, I´m SOOO JEALOUS.

  • Most of these people are dead from drugs or AIDS.

  • @jmc32007 True and id say they had a damn good time ending up that way!!!

  • Damn Truman is trippin' hard ;) hahaha

  • Wooohhhhhhh!!! I wish to relax and enjoy in this super disco with the amazing and exciting music, better times really ?

  • Calvin Klein 5:00

  • Holy crap. Michael Jackson as he should be remembered.

  • They were obviously very good at getting all the celebrities in one place. Other than that, there are probably nicer clubs these days. The concept has gotten a bit old, back then it was all new and fresh.

  • @screenwitch > The draw of some of the best clubs was that they weren't all nice/fancy. I remember the incredible draw of dingy warehouse spaces/corridors...guided there by the bass of some dark house beat, the strobes/lights flashing, the people gyrating their bodies until 6am and the need to be there sharing experiences with them. It didn't matter how pretty it was as long as we got the fix we needed, and I am not talkin about the drugs. The true NYC clubber knows exactly what I mean.

  • 300 bucks for calvin klein to stick his dick in your ass. it was a bargain!

  • @illuminatioracle

    Shhut the F up!

    U have no idea!

  • Let me iiiiiin ! xD

  • MICHAEL FTW!

  • MONEY, SEX, DRUGS, & ROCK N ROLL!!!

  • @BAREBACKONLY16 ummm... Disco House instead of Rock and Roll

  • @DJRosco82 I CAN DIG DISCO... ONLY WHEN SUPER HIGH & POPPER'D UP!!!

  • @BAREBACKONLY16 Uhh that's probably the way all of THEM in Studio 54 enjoyed all the disco too. They WERE high, even their Man in The Moon prop got high!

  • @jrmetmoi DAMN WISHED I WERE THERE... SEEMS LIKE THEY WERE HAVING FUN!!! I MEAN WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE TO LIVE THROUGH THIS SHIT & TELL ABOUT LMAO... D I S C O!!!

  • grande locale

  • Heaven :)

  • omg! this is amazzinggggggg

  • Hey PaisaB...yep, was fun--but not any different than any club today-lots of drinking, dancing, drugs and people looking for a friend to take home that night :) I don't see any diff. tween then and now-just the music and the clothes

  • I've been looking all over for a documentary about Studio 54, do you have the full film?

  • @chocolategirl36 I am looking for it too.

  • "Little" Michael was obviously sheltered from the rampant sex and drug use when he went to Studio 54. He was probably the most innocent person in the entire building at the time. He was truly an angel amongst devils.

    And that busboy...............damn! He's still fucked up from the drugs that he was using 20+ years ago! Possibly late-stage AIDS (God forbid).

  • Man, S-54 was THE club, period. If you could have ever been old enough back in that time to go there then that was THE place to be. And let me tell you everything these video's say it was, it really was just that and more. As far as true partying goes, this WAS life! Hell, just watching video's about this place would have been fun back then.

    I'll always miss S-54 because there will never be another club like it with the freedom they had ever again. Sux to think it all ended :(

  • Thanks a lot for this great clip.

    Max respect from JOdawara Japan.

  • Hey where did you upload this clip from? do you know where i can get a documentary about studio 54?

  • Hey where did you upload this clip from? do you know where i can get a documentary about studio 54??

  • Hey where did you upload this from? do you know if there are any documentaries on studio 54?

  • Michael Jackson looks like he should be guarding Buckingham Palace.

  • This is such a cool documentary! This isn't the one that aired on VH1 is it? Thanks for posting this, GarycomUK. And is there a full documentary on Studio 54?

  • who is the guy in the 4:00? what did happen to the boys in the photo etc?

  • Michael could've snuck Janet in with his hairdo.

  • Most of the busboys were gay.

  • y donna summer? ellla estubo muchas veces en studio54

  • So this guy with the boring, sleepy voice got f***ed by Calvin Klein for $300?

    That was a lot of money at that time, lol.

    See what cocaine can do to you, lol.

  • In regards to the AIDS comment... do you really think Studio was the only place where people were partying? Anyone who lived in the city at the time, especially gay men, knew this was NOT the first place where it happened. Many of those celebs went around with guys who were going to the other places in the city like the baths in addition to Studio.

  • and the moral of the story is.......pay your taxes!

  • The 70's will remain the best 10 years of my life, and if you were lucky enough to be there you know what I'm talking about. The era was decadent, hedonistic, liberating and sexual. A song title explains it best, "If You Can't Be With The One You Love, Love The One You're With"! And we did!

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  • From wikipedia: "Steve Rubell(the owner) became a familiar face in front of the building, turning people down at the door and only letting in those who met his specific standards". that sucks. i wouldn't stand in front of that door

  • I am sure this was the AIDS PALACE...many of the famous patrons died of AIDS..Mercury, Brad Davis, Rock Hudson....must have been the waiter....what a sick place

  • wow!!!! what a brilliant time capsule piece. where did this come from? do you know who made/directed this? thanks for posting it :)

  • fuck i wish i could go back in time

  • Michael Jackson looks and sounds adorable!!! Pity he had no clue what a gem he was.

  • Adorable, a word used in conjunction with 'before puberty'.

  • @SteveAndrewLangford

    Not necessarily.

    I'm sure your mum thinks you u you're

    adorable. Not that i see myself as some

    maternal figure, but i think he's "adorable".

  • Aw, look at her, she's adorable. That word is very much connotated with adorable six year olds. I believe you feel Michael 'adorable' in this video because his voice has not yet broken and yet he's living like a veteran musician.

  • @SteveAndrewLangford "I believe you feel Michael 'adorable' in this video because his voice has not yet broken and yet he's living like a veteran musician."

    Nope. Has nothing to do with his voice. I see him as a man in the video. A man with a high voice. An attractive man. Oh well...we'll just have to agree to disagree.

  • lol, totally. Cheers!