Studio 54
Clip: Episode 2 | 1m 59sVideo has Closed Captions
Explore the opening of Studio 54.
Explore the opening of Studio 54 and the increasing demands for large-scale clubs.
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Studio 54
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Explore the opening of Studio 54 and the increasing demands for large-scale clubs.
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Siano: People went to Studio 54 to be seen, and there were people who went to Studio 54 to party.
I went there to party.
I created it as a playground so people would go sex, drugs, disco, whatever you need.
A one-night stand is better than nothing, but, you know, something to enjoy life and to make you more creative.
Errrr!
Glamor up your ass.
It just was so ostentatious.
Ostentatious beyond belief.
Summer: ♪ I feel love ♪ Trabulus: There was never anything like it, and they will never be anything again like it.
♪ D'Alessio: Andy Warhol was a--pfft--fixture.
He didn't want to miss out on anything.
He would go to the opening of an envelope because he was scared of missing out.
Summer: ♪ Fallin' free, fallin' free, fallin' free ♪ ♪ Fallin' free ♪ [Cheering] You know, they only invested $300,000 to do the studio, and the first year, they were making $3 million?
OK.
In those years.
Steve liked to talk a lot to the press every day.
He's saying, "We are making more money than the Mafia."
♪ Aletti: People all over the country were opening up discos.
It was a phenomenon clearly.
There was a real focus on opening bigger clubs, looking for a larger audience that was clearly out there.
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