Studio 54- Great fashion, good music= unseen pleasure!

Anyone remember Studio 54?
   Most of the readers of this blog were not even born when this New York hotspot (or discotheque) opened its doors 30 years ago at 254 West 54th Street in Manhattan. It is still, to this day, referred to as the  "Disco Mecca".
   Paolo Miranda, one of the bus boys, who worked for a couple of years at Studio 54, says:
"It's still the best dance music around; 'Last Dance', 'I love the Nightlife', 'Born to be Alive', 'Push, Push in the Bush', I could go on and on... What made the music so special was the light show that went with it. As the music became more alive, so did the light show."

  In Dennis Parker's "New York by night" he sings; "At Studio 54, they're waiting at the door, can't get in - just can't win... This is N.Y. by night, this is N.Y. by night so get ready for the time of your life...".
Amanda Lear got famous for her song"Fashion Pack" in which she sings; "Hustling at the door to get into Studio 54... Liza dancing on the floor and Bianca walking through the door".

Here is what Philip Nobile, a journalist for New York NEWS & FEATURES says about the Disco:

Covering Studio 54 was like covering the big bang. On April 26, 1977—a long time before superstar D.J.’s, before velvet ropes, before anyone had ever heard of “club drugs” like XTC, 2CB, and special K—Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager let there be light and speed and spectacle so preternaturally pleasurable that it had to fall apart. But while the ball lasted, there was no more thrilling nightlife than the dance on West 54th Street. I know, because I was there. Studio 54 was my beat as the “Intelligencer” columnist. Go forth and party with Halston, Bianca, Andy, and Liza, said my editor, and bring back the buzz. Temperamentally unfit to record the glow of celebrity, I marveled more at the sexual politics. While homosexuality was outlawed at Plato’s Retreat, where the dancing was seriously dirty, Rubell invited the Friends of Frederick the Great to the party. “It’s bisexual,” Rubell told Interview. “Very bisexual. And that’s how we choose the crowd, too. In other words, we want everybody to be fun and good-looking.” And have sex and do drugs in the balcony.How long did the gods allow such défi? About three years. Rubell and Schrager pleaded guilty in November 1979 for skimming a million dollars, and both were eventually imprisoned for thirteen months. But Rubell’s greatest crime went unpunished: a last-ditch snitch on Hamilton Jordan, Jimmy Carter’s White House chief of staff, for allegedly doing lines in the basement. This squeeze play was the brainchild of Joe McCarthy’s bottom, Roy Cohn, the hard-partying lawyer for Studio. Who else?

Karma caught up with Rubell. He succumbed to AIDS in 1989. His partner, since then has had a successful second act. And we who danced to 54’s tune, what about us 30 years far and beyond? It doesn’t seem like yesterday, but I wish it were.