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Studio 54 Opened in April 1977 in New York City, Studio 54 became one of the most famous discotheques in the world.

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To be on the club side of the rope that regulated entrance to Studio 54 was to be in a heaven of sorts. On 54th Street in midtown Manhattan, Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager created the most chic disco of the 1970s, taking the energy of earlier underground New York City clubs like the Haven and the Sanctuary and mixing it with the 1960s European concept of le discotheque, the classy nightspot where one danced to records rather than live bands. At Studio 54 the beautiful and the damned gathered to take drugs and dance to the new post-Philadelphia soul ...(100 of 264 words)

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