Absolutely agree here. I started clubbing in '82 and it ended in the late 00s. To me, the new wave era in the early mid-80s and the house scene around '88-94 was the best. It slowly went downhill after that. They were glorious days---youth today have no idea how fun it was.
Im 37 and I started going out at age 16 in 1996, Arena Hollywood and then around 1999 the electro clash/indie rock and new80's scene started up in Hollywood. The clubs were fun, people dressed up and danced. You could find a club to go to every night all over LA until 2008 when people just got boring and stopped going out. The nail in the coffin was in 2014 when Circus Disco/Arena Hollywood the last true disco techs in LA closed for good and were demolished for apartments. If you go out now, people all look the same, dress the same, wear sneakers or sandals which is disgusting lol. Hopefully the future gets fun again. Hopefully.
The nightlife in NYC in those days was fabulous. Clubs would be open to sunrise and the streets were full of people waving down taxis, walking from venue to venue, and having a great time with no fear of being attacked, shot, robbed, or any of that unless they were alone in a bad neighborhood. And all kinds and stratas of people would be mingled in together without discrimination. The City is nothing like it was.
I would have like to live that era, NYC in late 70's. I'm 44 years old, (i born in 79') i have experienced the night of 90's and i can confirm was unforgettable and very happy too. But surely not like 70's. I think 70's was better. I love DISCO. Many thanks for your comment. Huges from Argentina.
Honestly though, I’m not against people having it, it’s just. You’re at the club and you’re really gonna be on your phone? Enjoy it somewhere else cause it really ruins the energy there. You could document it, but then maybe bring a camera or something else. The vibe and energy people created by being in the moment is key to the experience most people get.
I am 29, born in 1991 and I know I will never experience anything even close to this, the 60's through the 80's etc. I long for it, but it is sadly a bygone era. Those who lived through it were a part of something incredible. This was a golden era & although there are shades of raw talent and undiscovered gems here and there in current times, I truly mourn for the lack of culture my generation has for themselves. Everything is grey now... I long for colour. Colour in it's literal sense but also in personalities, in art, in music, in speech.
Life In 1984 internet and television ruined it , I was there it was an amazing journey for the 70'a d 80's, but we let it happen , we followed the leaders😑
Just be who you are. I'm 49, born in 1970. Be raw, be talented and don't relent. Don't let the times define you, that's a mistake I made. Prince always said, Time is a Trick. You are as free as you let yourself be. Yes, it was a much more open time, I too long for it, but you see it, so be it in yourself. Sorry if I sound preachy, but, I loved your comment and wanted to respond.
Wow,such great insite.i was a teen in the 70s and i long for those days.stood 5 ft from led zepplin in concert 75.had a wonderful teen yrs.i wish it was still this way...
@Sun Flower We can also just recreate those experience. If money and time is not an issue, why would we not rebuild the old studio 54 as it was with same minded people?
Nah…NYC was hell actualized in the 70’s. It was violent, chaotic, and the city was on edge. In 1975 there was a sanitation strike and city literally turned into a landfill. Plus people were freaked out by the Son of Sam killer roaming the streets. It was constant high tension.
It wasn't just social media that killed the clubs. The dance floor was crowded with tables and club owners demanding bottle service ($1000 plus) if you want to sit. Women stopped dancing with men and more with each other or they come to the club just to stand and look cute with their girlfriend's, popular music tempo slowed. So many factors contributed to a dead club scene
The 70’s. Now, those were the days. I was born in 1959, and I’m here to say that Not only did I survive the 70’s, but I keep the magic of the 70’s alive even today. My secret? When I go out for the nightlife, I leave my cell phone at home.
@@1975ukandbored the legend says that Grace Jones and Nile Rodgers tried enter the Studio 54 though the backstage entrance. They didn't let them in, so they went back to Nile’s apartment and had a jam session. He improvised a guitar riff to "f*** off", dedicated to the Studio 54. They really liked it, but changed it later to a song that everybody knows as "Le Freak" by Chic
I was too young in the 70s. If you were too young and gay (even if you didn't acknowledge it to yourself) it was the worst of times. But at least the music was good.
If this was today they all would be sitting looking at their screens not looking or talking to each other, this was the golden age of going out and having a good time it will never be like this again
@@searaydrivingguyLol i know he was, that's what i meant by "ridiculous claim", but he'd still be considered a nazi nowadays for not picking some self victimized losers to get into his famous club.
searaydrivingguy I feel so sorry for these poor kids today. What is their sense of fun? Video games? Posting on their cellphones? Political correctness has robbed them of enjoyment and living.
Ya know, a lot of what you're saying is true but kids still socialize... When you go to a club today, at least the clubs I go to, everyone leaves their phones in their bags and mingles and has a good time
Although it would probably never reopen again I could still have that small glimmer of hope that one day it could re open and experience the magic that it once was at least for one night
The late 1970s and 1980s were the best of times. We had a blast back then. So glad that this was the time that I grew up. Growing up in today’s world must suck royally. A majority of young people are angry, depressed and bitter about life. Back then people were crazy, fun, happy and chill.
I was there. Once you have seen it, it is impossible to unsee. Even by today's standards, it all seems so surreal ..... yet... it was ALL true !!! So grateful.
This is maybe my top 5 favorite videos on RUclips ever. Thank you to the original filmmakers and editors who created this piece of impressionistic sociological history
I actually worked with one of them...Kevin Boyce. We worked in the record department at Gimbel's in downtown Philadelphia in 1973. It was my first job. I was 17 and Kevin was very protective of me.
I was a young teenager around '78 when my parents moved south to Alabama, at the height of the disco era, I can recall the natural high I would get off the music. I went into deep depression moving to the very slow south. It was like walking through a time capsule it was so bad. I missed the people always dancing, laughing, having fun, singing all the time. When the disco era died, it was like a long funeral, feeling like a dream as it came and went.
at least dance music was still played after disco...it just evolved. now picture the years '93 - '94 when there wasn't even any dance music at ALL playing anywhere....not even on the radio....thats REAL depression.
@@jameswarner300 I ❤️ the teddy Riley new jack swing sound! after '92 everything changed. the new jack swing, house music, early techno, etc was no more. when '93 started it was ALL grunge, gangsta rap and slow tempo r&b. the lyrics were all abt either depression, suicide or murder. I listen to and can appreciate the music NOW but back then, that sht was depressing!
Ha! I'm 53 and moved from Ohio to rural Alabama and I know exactly what you mean. I wasn't much for going out but everything is so different and everything is sinful ! Lol not even lottery here!
There will never be another studio 54, club paradise, or zanzibar😢 I haven't been in a club since the 90's. This type of energy and environment was amazing. A time when ppl went out and enjoyed themselves. These days are gone 😢
Yes, I love that era. My best friend & I actually got through the velvet ropes when the bouncer picked us to go in. It was there that I felt comfortable dancing by myself...and I'm not gay. We had the BEST time there: except for the high priced drinks...$15 for a beer and I didn't do drugs either.
I like Disco music it has a universal appeal that unites people from all walks of life. And a nightclub like studio 54 gives people a chance to mingle with people from all walks of life. The common man could dance with the queen of a country or the common woman could dance with the prime Minister of his nation.
Question. I heard from quite a few people that 54 was very easy to get into if you went on a Tues Weds Thurs or Sunday. Fridays and Saturdays are the nights everyone talked about. I'm sure the club was no way jumping like a Saturday night on a Weds in November lol
@@Sammydx1 the club was a lot better during the week the reason people who lived in the city went then on the weekends only the bridge and tunnel crowd went boring I lived in chelsea so it was close for me by cab
Warren Stessin - I was there only once - in 1978. But the person who got me in (Unless you were famous, you had to know someone who was a regular in order to get in) was there at least once a week. If I told you his name, I wonder if you might have known him.
I’ve always said I was born in the wrong decade. I was born in 85 and I’ve always had a very strong connection of sorts to studio. My dad was majorly into dancing before I came along and he got to spend a few nights dancing with everyone.. I would give anything to go back in time and try my luck to be enough to get in. I’ll never be ashamed either to let people know I love disco as much as I love rock. Everytime I go to manhattan (if I drive myself) I park on 57th between 9th & 10th….then I get to pass by 54 before I leave the city.
Greets from Hamburg in Germany. The founder of the Studio54 was the father of one of my old friends. I grew up with disco and still dance like that time-not more so energetic BUT still in the rieght grove and rythem! I was build in the year 1963
I was born in 1999 and the only time I’ve ever actually had fun like this was at... my high school graduation dance. It was so fun and so new to see everyone actually letting loose, having fun and being happy together... really, it was so much fun! EVERYBODY danced, even the quiet kids! Obviously the music and environment wasn’t anything near what they had at the discos in the 70’s, but it was the closest thing I think I’ll ever experience to it, sadly. I don’t think people really understand how fun it actually is, how enriching it is for the body and soul to really just DANCE, and to be around other people who are also just dancing. There’s literally scientific studies that prove that dancing freely like no one is watching is good for you. It takes a minute for you to be comfortable because you feel self conscious, but once you see that everyone around you isn’t paying any attention and that everyone is there to just dance and have fun, you never want to stop! I could have danced all night... The world would be a better place if we could all just get out once a week and dance our troubles and stresses away. And yet, I went out to club once it was terrible. Just terrible!!! No one dances, everyone just sits or stands in little closed off groups on their phones with drinks... and that’s it! Holy fuck is it dry! And don’t get me started on the clothes they wear. Girls in straight up lingerie and leggings, long flat hair that’s fried on the ends, caterpillar eyelash extensions with the cheapest LV or Gucci bag slung over their shoulders. Guys in baseball caps turned backwards or not, jeans, hoodies/sweatshirts, Canada Goose vests, Air Force 1’s, hair that’s buzzed way too short on the sides... why!!! Why!?! Why is this generation so terrible!?!? We all know the answer... but somehow I think the world will never see such fun as it did during the 1970’s. It was a one time thing that could never be replicated... and for that I am ever bitter!!!!
Aww honey. Take consolation in the fact that you recognize what’s real. That says a whole lot about you. You’ll find places to dance in this world….just because you are the awesome person that you are!
Spent jr. high at the peak of the disco era. For our school dances, we tried to make the gymnasium into Studio 54. Lol, we fell a little short--but had fun trying. 😜
Agree , nightlife is not the same as it used to be, although I never got to go to Studio 54 because I was less then 10 years of age at the time, this is one club that I would have loved to have visited, to this day it's talked about. Notice a lot of comments regarding how clubs are not the same , and speaking of social media , this I also agree with , recently was out in Las Vegas, multi million clubs and operations and amazing music etc.. but the issue is just that , no one speaks to anyone , most are on cell phones, facebook, snap chat, Grindr, and more. No interest in going out unless someone comes up with a rule of cell phones must be left in a locked area with your coat check / in a small locker, the real fun needs to come back!
Gutted for all the ppl that died cause the aids virus, if only it was 10-20yrs later these guys would still be here , such a tragedy, RIP to all the lost souls of studio 54 and everywhere else that suffered this horrendous disease 💔
Born in 1973, came alive during the 90s but the club scene was already dwindling yet we still had techno, dance music etc. The Internet and social media killed it. I think Gen X was the last to experience this...
I love the 1998 film ''54'' with Ryan Phillippe and Salma Hayak. It's a good ''insider'' story about being pimped off by club owner Steve Rubbell. I used to drive by Studio 54 in 1977 . The lines to get in were so long that I preferred to go to a salsa music night club with the best of the live bands for dancing.
What fun it was ! I remember the night Truman Capote tried to get Elizabeth Taylor to leave with him to go the Dakota Apartments to see Salvatore Dahli who was visiting someone there.. She was not interested, but being very sweet with Truman, and then he suddenly just passed out. Everyone had a grand laugh about it later.
My mom was regular there, she dance with this tall handsome whit guy with mopy blonde hair one night, and it was actually the blonde guy from the dukes of hazzard show
Agree with many of the comments here, especially Victor Atomic's about the decline of nightlife/clubbing in recent years due to social media and technology. I was wondering if it was just here in Louisville or elsewhere too. We used to have packed clubs & bars over 20 years ago (including one called Sparks which was a minor league version of Studio 54). If you wanted to socialize back then, you had to get out of your house. Now when you go out, many places are dead on a Saturday night even. The ones that are crowded, very rookie league and ghetto. Nobody dresses up either. That or everyone has their heads buried in their phones. In Chicago it's somewhat better but not that great either, especially compared to 15-20 years ago. Pretty sad to be in your mid-40s and act like an 80 year old on weekends watching TV with nowhere to go!?
Joseph Saylor I live in the NY suburbs (which used to be hot and heavy in the 1970s) and to my knowledge what passes now for nightlife is sitting with your friends in TGIF eating overpriced, mediocre fat food, texting selfies to the person two feet in front of you, and once in a while looking up at one of the 250 flatscreens showing ESPN or FOX SPORTS to see how your team is doing. Nightlife is DEAD and BURIED, at least the way we remember it.
Time to go back to the cocktail parties of the 1950s and 1960s. Problem is, people are not interesting in their own right as they were. Today people have no life because it all revolves around politics, pop culture like the Kardashians and social media. Life has become stale and music and film has followed.
The band Chic wrote a song in 1978, "Le Freak", after being refused entry to the club on New Year's Eve 1977, despite having been invited by Grace Jones.
Rubell turned away Nile Rogers and Bernard, because he propositioned them for sex trying to get them to experiment. That’s what they don’t tell you, Rubell Despised Women and HATED Heterosexuals. He was also discriminatory against Lesbians and ACTUAL Transsexuals. Those inside were Drag Queens.
I remember being about 14 in 1977 and seeing my Grandmother's STAR magazine with a pic of Bianca Jagger being spun around by Sterling St. Jacques....she had her legs wrapped around his torso. That made a pretty big impression on me in all my innocence and naivety. For some reason that image always stuck in my head about Studio 54.
At 2:56 Steve says to a guy that's trying to get in "You're wearing bell bottoms" I didn't realize bell bottoms had gone out of style in 1979, I thought they lasted into the early 80's. (I wasn't born until 1984)
Yes. Actually in 78-79 major change in men’s fashion when lapels got narrow, ties skinny, and collars small. Largely the result of GQ and N Y. Caught many off guard, even mainstream clothing companies. Straight leg, tight jeans replaced the flares and platform shoes were history (actually the latter were gone by 1977). And in 79 was a major interest in western-inspired looks but with a disco aspect, along with some elements of the new wave look of the 80s and even preppy, all as a reaction to the polyester huge-collar thing going on in the mid 70s.
Those were the best of times. After I would dance at the Copa I would saunter over to Studio 54 hoping I would be let in. I was never picked though. Even though I was decked out! I loved that era though.
I lived through this era. I was 21 in 1977. It..was..fantastic! I lived in the discos then, three, four nights a week. I even took a dance class in 1977 and they played Native New Yorker when it was new. Worked during the day, danced at night. It was not anything as it has been made out by the stupid media. It was classy, elegant, and anything but crude. You had to have good hygiene, dress nice (NO Jeans!), and mannerly. If not, you were NOT getting in and certainly not going to get dance with the ladies. At least where I danced in Minneapolis and Dallas it was that way. Long live Scottie's on Seventh in Minneapolis! I dance Ballroom now, and we still do the Hustle. It is a bit different but it pays homage to that time. 70's and 80's were great times.
random guy in 79: "Am I late for the free coke giveaway?" Rick James, rest in peace, told stories about Studio 54, in which people with bum cocaine off of him, celebrities too. He would act as if though he didn't have any on him even though he did have cocaine.
I was lucky to get by the back door with the help of the bouncer for free me and my sister were going home from Rozland night club. That vas beginning of the 80.It was heaven.
This was the greatest time to really party & dance, every night if you wanted to. There were clubs everywhere in NYC and the boroughs. AIDS slowed things down quite a bit. It was like they say it was in the roaring 20’s. For almost two decades it was the worlds greatest party and you were lucky to have been invited. I feel blessed that I got to live the madness that was the club days.
The dance that came out of Studio 54 was hustle and it's very much alive today, or was pre-COVID, so if you want to lock into some of the flowing groove style of dancing you see in the best clips from the old days, search out Street Hustle, New York Hustle, and Latin Hustle.
Damn ! At least let people in that know how to dance! A lot of square people in “54” stiff as hell. All the good dancers were over at the Paradise Garage , without a doubt!
You may have a point. But a video that seems to gone from RUclips DID show some people dancing well, and did a better job than this of conveying how chic it probably was. (Was never there myself). I do recall at the places I went lots of people were excellent dancers and didn’t do that cringe inducing stuff in Saturday Night Fever.
Looks like great fun! Unfortunately, I was born in the early 90s. By the time I was old enough to go clubbing, the scene was beginning to die out 😞 Wish I had a time machine.
I’m 30 and I wished this was the same now. I’m literally the only gay I know that wants to go out and “dance” (Castro/San Francisco). Everyone else says they don’t go out to just dance but to hook up. It’s annoying to see the dance floor full of people not even dancing, especially when in the middle of it all . . . I feel like millennial gays are taking for granted the magic that we were as the gay community. An unapologetic fraternity/sorority of brothers and sisters exploring this existence through expression. I would love to own a bar/club here in the city and have it be like Babylon from QAF with different nights of different themes and encourage people to dress up, like studio 54 meets Ball Room meets Trannyshack/Mother.
Push push in the bush...so baby lets get it to it ....are you ready for this!! What times! It was just less stress and more joy...Today is just plain crazy.
I was a senior in high school ‘79 - ’80. In my speech class someone gave a report on Studio 54 and how a lot of people were doing a really expensive drug called ‘cocaine’ at that club. That was the first I had ever heard of Studio 54 or of cocaine.
Doesn’t anybody remember the way to sneak in from the roof ,than work your way down from inside,once you were in no one questioned you why you were there and we were 17!!!
Yeah, When Mike Stone Productions. Took up leasing the Club, THAT was The Place where some individuals would try to get into the Club, UNFORTUNATELY MORE than a Few Ended up getting Stuck. PEACE.
Well, okay, but to really get the experience of 70s disco you’d have to play “I Feel love” by Donna Summer or “Magnifique” by Charisma or “Hit n’Run” by Loleatta Holloway. Or even “Give Me a Break” by Vivian Vee with its exotic instrumental part. “We Are Family” was a good song but a lackluster dance song - the best disco exploited the fantastic sound tech in these clubs.
11dsw no. It wasn't discovered until the mid 80s people started dying from aids. But it takes a few years to start showing so I did see on a documentary that aids did start in clubs like this during the late 70s
@@bigtinymanowarrior7330... it did not start in the discos. It was spreading from all over. If it was exclusively in the club scene then all of my friends would have been dead many many years ago. We whored around with 100's of people during that era. We are all here, families and all. It was not rampant in the Late 70's. It just wasn't.
11dsw The golden period of Studio 54 disco was from 1977 until 1980 when its founders were jailed. That period HIV was unknown to nearly all. Also the average incubation period of HIV without any medicines is ten years and without any symptoms. So most of people who were infected during the golden period of Studio 54 became ill with AIDS and died during mid80's and early 90's. Afterwards the incubation period of HIV could be prolonged with medicines.
@@AgnostosGnostos yes, I know this. It wasn't everywhere and it didn't start in discos, like someone said a few comments back...also people sometimes became ill within a year or so.
I would’ve given anything to be there! We had the best times in the late 80’s/early to mid 90’s going to clubs and dancing till daybreak! The dance floor would be so crowded and loud and FUN! No Studio 54 but more than good enough! I miss it! Nothing like that anymore.
As someone old enough to have experienced the 70's, I assure you there will never be a decade like it. Ever.
AIDS ended that era, so did 80's Reagan conversatism.
AIDS ended all that along with the 8 years of Reagan and 4 years of Bush. Imagine if the AIDS epidemic never happened.
The 70' definitely was different Era by FAR to say the least.
You said it brother
One hell of a decade
The nightclub era officially died near the end of the 00's. Wiped out by the social media age. Nightlife has not been the same.
Might agree with you.... liked the Miami night scene in the late 2000’s.... before smart phones and Facebook...
Total fact. I partied right up until the end. And it was a hard end. No doubt about it.
Yes, people can't dance and check their social media at the same time. But they can sure walk in traffic and on sidewalks.
Absolutely agree here. I started clubbing in '82 and it ended in the late 00s. To me, the new wave era in the early mid-80s and the house scene around '88-94 was the best. It slowly went downhill after that. They were glorious days---youth today have no idea how fun it was.
Im 37 and I started going out at age 16 in 1996, Arena Hollywood and then around 1999 the electro clash/indie rock and new80's scene started up in Hollywood. The clubs were fun, people dressed up and danced. You could find a club to go to every night all over LA until 2008 when people just got boring and stopped going out. The nail in the coffin was in 2014 when Circus Disco/Arena Hollywood the last true disco techs in LA closed for good and were demolished for apartments. If you go out now, people all look the same, dress the same, wear sneakers or sandals which is disgusting lol. Hopefully the future gets fun again. Hopefully.
2018: I'm still standing outside waiting to get in.
William Hird lol! Really huh !! 😂🤣
You'll never get in wearing that hat...
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The nightlife in NYC in those days was fabulous. Clubs would be open to sunrise and the streets were full of people waving down taxis, walking from venue to venue, and having a great time with no fear of being attacked, shot, robbed, or any of that unless they were alone in a bad neighborhood. And all kinds and stratas of people would be mingled in together without discrimination. The City is nothing like it was.
I would have like to live that era, NYC in late 70's. I'm 44 years old, (i born in 79') i have experienced the night of 90's and i can confirm was unforgettable and very happy too. But surely not like 70's. I think 70's was better. I love DISCO. Many thanks for your comment. Huges from Argentina.
was that before *total* open border immigration policies?
Ban smartphones at clubs and bars and you might get the club dance scene back to life again.
Dance club scene in Europe is vibrant, we banned smartphones ages ago ...
Master Of Darkness I agree! We ruined it by excepting to do it!
Honestly though, I’m not against people having it, it’s just. You’re at the club and you’re really gonna be on your phone? Enjoy it somewhere else cause it really ruins the energy there. You could document it, but then maybe bring a camera or something else. The vibe and energy people created by being in the moment is key to the experience most people get.
It could never happen today. The fire department would never allow it.
yeah and who knows people might actually start talking to people in the flesh again
I am 29, born in 1991 and I know I will never experience anything even close to this, the 60's through the 80's etc. I long for it, but it is sadly a bygone era. Those who lived through it were a part of something incredible. This was a golden era & although there are shades of raw talent and undiscovered gems here and there in current times, I truly mourn for the lack of culture my generation has for themselves. Everything is grey now... I long for colour. Colour in it's literal sense but also in personalities, in art, in music, in speech.
Life In 1984 internet and television ruined it , I was there it was an amazing journey for the 70'a d 80's, but we let it happen , we followed the leaders😑
@@pennykrier3960 I agree, individuality has vanished nowadays, and internet and tv are more toxic than most people realise
Just be who you are. I'm 49, born in 1970. Be raw, be talented and don't relent. Don't let the times define you, that's a mistake I made. Prince always said, Time is a Trick. You are as free as you let yourself be. Yes, it was a much more open time, I too long for it, but you see it, so be it in yourself.
Sorry if I sound preachy, but, I loved your comment and wanted to respond.
Wow,such great insite.i was a teen in the 70s and i long for those days.stood 5 ft from led zepplin in concert 75.had a wonderful teen yrs.i wish it was still this way...
@Sun Flower We can also just recreate those experience. If money and time is not an issue, why would we not rebuild the old studio 54 as it was with same minded people?
Man the 70s were lit....
Nah…NYC was hell actualized in the 70’s. It was violent, chaotic, and the city was on edge. In 1975 there was a sanitation strike and city literally turned into a landfill. Plus people were freaked out by the Son of Sam killer roaming the streets. It was constant high tension.
It wasn't just social media that killed the clubs. The dance floor was crowded with tables and club owners demanding bottle service ($1000 plus) if you want to sit. Women stopped dancing with men and more with each other or they come to the club just to stand and look cute with their girlfriend's, popular music tempo slowed. So many factors contributed to a dead club scene
The 70’s. Now, those were the days. I was born in 1959, and I’m here to say that Not only did I survive the 70’s, but I keep the magic of the 70’s alive even today. My secret? When I go out for the nightlife, I leave my cell phone at home.
Nile Rogers being refused entry one New Years Eve spawned one of the greatest disco songs ever.
Aaaaahhhh fuck you!! That was what they started to sing initially haha
What happened?
@@1975ukandbored the legend says that Grace Jones and Nile Rodgers tried enter the Studio 54 though the backstage entrance. They didn't let them in, so they went back to Nile’s apartment and had a jam session. He improvised a guitar riff to "f*** off", dedicated to the Studio 54. They really liked it, but changed it later to a song that everybody knows as "Le Freak" by Chic
“Ah fuck off - freak out!”
Le Freak! My mother told me that 😀
I used to walk by that place and laugh at those people trying to get in. Now it's classic!
Why at first you walking by there all the time then ? And B) you also wanted to get in ,but was to much of a looser to get even close to the door !
They were laughing at your lonely life. So it's square.
Why if you loved Rock music you thought losers were people who liked Disco music or clubs.
I wasn't cool enough I'm still a loser
@tfs2O3 you too?
If you were young during the 70s, then you experienced the best of times. Count yourself lucky, and feel sorry for the youth of today.
I was too young in the 70s. If you were too young and gay (even if you didn't acknowledge it to yourself) it was the worst of times. But at least the music was good.
Jamie Rattigan 70's, 80's y early 90's
Unless you went to Vietnam.
In my area, there were at least eight clubs with rocking bands. And drinking at 18. Weekends were great.
Hell with the aids bomb that exploded shortly after, I'm glad I was able to participate.
If this was today they all would be sitting looking at their screens not looking or talking to each other, this was the golden age of going out and having a good time it will never be like this again
And probably posting on social media complaining about not getting in because the owners are nazis or some other ridiculous claim lol
all afraid from the social media fallout should they escalate
@@searaydrivingguyLol i know he was, that's what i meant by "ridiculous claim", but he'd still be considered a nazi nowadays for not picking some self victimized losers to get into his famous club.
searaydrivingguy I feel so sorry for these poor kids today. What is their sense of fun? Video games? Posting on their cellphones? Political correctness has robbed them of enjoyment and living.
Ya know, a lot of what you're saying is true but kids still socialize... When you go to a club today, at least the clubs I go to, everyone leaves their phones in their bags and mingles and has a good time
I went by Studio 54 recently and the magic is still there. The history remains.
Not the clubbing though
Now it sucks
Yeah it's just a stupid boring broadway theater now
Although it would probably never reopen again I could still have that small glimmer of hope that one day it could re open and experience the magic that it once was at least for one night
@@zackmccrea4731 to be fair it was a theater before it was a club 🤷🏻♂️
70s New York night life, wish I was there. The consolation prize was growing up in the 80s, the other best decade ever
The 1970's and 1980's were the best..
Yep! Wish I could have experienced it
I truly miss the 80s as a time. So much was going on, so much great music coming out of everywhere.
Yea when the cocaine was pure.
Yes dying in Nam sounds like fun
@@lessssssgooooo lol vietnam ended in 1973 and most of the fighting was over by then.
The late 1970s and 1980s were the best of times. We had a blast back then. So glad that this was the time that I grew up. Growing up in today’s world must suck royally. A majority of young people are angry, depressed and bitter about life. Back then people were crazy, fun, happy and chill.
I wish i was born in that like i grave to be born in the 70 it was such a different vibe
I was there. Once you have seen it, it is impossible to unsee. Even by today's standards, it all seems so surreal ..... yet... it was ALL true !!! So grateful.
This is maybe my top 5 favorite videos on RUclips ever. Thank you to the original filmmakers and editors who created this piece of impressionistic sociological history
What are your other top 4 videos
"He's never had that much hair on him in his life!" "It's a fur coat darling, you must be drunk." 😂😂😂
Sunny Deise “..you must be drunk, again” 🤣🤣
5:30 XD I adore those two drag queens so much
@@zehlua 😂😂😂😂😂
I actually worked with one of them...Kevin Boyce. We worked in the record department at Gimbel's in downtown Philadelphia in 1973. It was my first job. I was 17 and Kevin was very protective of me.
The queens of SHADE 😎
A time and a place that will never be again. An atmosphere an energy that was magical. I want to be there 😭
I was a young teenager around '78 when my parents moved south to Alabama, at the height of the disco era, I can recall the natural high I would get off the music. I went into deep depression moving to the very slow south. It was like walking through a time capsule it was so bad. I missed the people always dancing, laughing, having fun, singing all the time. When the disco era died, it was like a long funeral, feeling like a dream as it came and went.
at least dance music was still played after disco...it just evolved. now picture the years '93 - '94 when there wasn't even any dance music at ALL playing anywhere....not even on the radio....thats REAL depression.
@@RRDB92 The New Jack Swing music of the late 80's and early 90's replaced the disco music. Teddy Riley took the states by storm.
@@jameswarner300 I ❤️ the teddy Riley new jack swing sound! after '92 everything changed. the new jack swing, house music, early techno, etc was no more. when '93 started it was ALL grunge, gangsta rap and slow tempo r&b. the lyrics were all abt either depression, suicide or murder. I listen to and can appreciate the music NOW but back then, that sht was depressing!
Ha! I'm 53 and moved from Ohio to rural Alabama and I know exactly what you mean. I wasn't much for going out but everything is so different and everything is sinful ! Lol not even lottery here!
@@nelliesfarm8473Exactly my point. It's just diferent.
The seventies were wild!! Loved disco! It was a way of life.
There will never be another studio 54, club paradise, or zanzibar😢 I haven't been in a club since the 90's. This type of energy and environment was amazing. A time when ppl went out and enjoyed themselves. These days are gone 😢
Yes, I love that era. My best friend & I actually got through the velvet ropes when the bouncer picked us to go in. It was there that I felt comfortable dancing by myself...and I'm not gay. We had the BEST time there: except for the high priced drinks...$15 for a beer and I didn't do drugs either.
$15 for a beer in the 70s?! Crazy, that's steep for a nightclub beer in 2020 lol
You lucky dude! You should have brought a camera with you!
That's expensive! A large beer in Australia now is only about 12 dollars, and that's still a lot!
You are a liar. A beer did NOT cost 15 $ at 54. You were never there.
@@matslarsson3452 He got screwed.
I like Disco music it has a universal appeal that unites people from all walks of life. And a nightclub like studio 54 gives people a chance to mingle with people from all walks of life. The common man could dance with the queen of a country or the common woman could dance with the prime Minister of his nation.
I partied there at least 50 times from opening 1977 to closing 1981 and funny I am still alive
@fresh B yes and yes
and was it really how all these documentaries say it was? tell us about it lol
Question. I heard from quite a few people that 54 was very easy to get into if you went on a Tues Weds Thurs or Sunday. Fridays and Saturdays are the nights everyone talked about. I'm sure the club was no way jumping like a Saturday night on a Weds in November lol
@@Sammydx1 the club was a lot better during the week the reason people who lived in the city went then on the weekends only the bridge and tunnel crowd went boring I lived in chelsea so it was close for me by cab
Warren Stessin - I was there only once - in 1978. But the person who got me in (Unless you were famous, you had to know someone who was a regular in order to get in) was there at least once a week. If I told you his name, I wonder if you might have known him.
I’ve always said I was born in the wrong decade. I was born in 85 and I’ve always had a very strong connection of sorts to studio. My dad was majorly into dancing before I came along and he got to spend a few nights dancing with everyone..
I would give anything to go back in time and try my luck to be enough to get in. I’ll never be ashamed either to let people know I love disco as much as I love rock.
Everytime I go to manhattan (if I drive myself) I park on 57th between 9th & 10th….then I get to pass by 54 before I leave the city.
Maybe you went there all the time in a past life :D
I love classic rock and disco as well, would love to go back in time to studio 54.
There will never,ever be an era of the studio 54 times.Those times are way long gone.They don't have club life like that anymore 🎉🎉
Greets from Hamburg in Germany. The founder of the Studio54 was the father of one of my old friends. I grew up with disco and still dance like that time-not more so energetic BUT still in the rieght grove and rythem! I was build in the year 1963
I was born in 1999 and the only time I’ve ever actually had fun like this was at... my high school graduation dance. It was so fun and so new to see everyone actually letting loose, having fun and being happy together... really, it was so much fun! EVERYBODY danced, even the quiet kids! Obviously the music and environment wasn’t anything near what they had at the discos in the 70’s, but it was the closest thing I think I’ll ever experience to it, sadly. I don’t think people really understand how fun it actually is, how enriching it is for the body and soul to really just DANCE, and to be around other people who are also just dancing. There’s literally scientific studies that prove that dancing freely like no one is watching is good for you. It takes a minute for you to be comfortable because you feel self conscious, but once you see that everyone around you isn’t paying any attention and that everyone is there to just dance and have fun, you never want to stop! I could have danced all night... The world would be a better place if we could all just get out once a week and dance our troubles and stresses away. And yet, I went out to club once it was terrible. Just terrible!!! No one dances, everyone just sits or stands in little closed off groups on their phones with drinks... and that’s it! Holy fuck is it dry! And don’t get me started on the clothes they wear. Girls in straight up lingerie and leggings, long flat hair that’s fried on the ends, caterpillar eyelash extensions with the cheapest LV or Gucci bag slung over their shoulders. Guys in baseball caps turned backwards or not, jeans, hoodies/sweatshirts, Canada Goose vests, Air Force 1’s, hair that’s buzzed way too short on the sides... why!!! Why!?! Why is this generation so terrible!?!? We all know the answer... but somehow I think the world will never see such fun as it did during the 1970’s. It was a one time thing that could never be replicated... and for that I am ever bitter!!!!
You sound like a really cool person! 🕺
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I hate that hair buzzed too short on the sides
Aww honey.
Take consolation in the fact that you recognize what’s real.
That says a whole lot about you.
You’ll find places to dance in this world….just because you are the awesome person that you are!
@@kristyjohnson2820❤
Been there done that in the 80’s and it was a blast. Great memories of our nights clubb’n 😁😁😁😁😁
As a 21 year old dj im bringing all this back in our new generation. This generation needs to be reminded where real music comes from.
Agreed Jeah.
It'll never happen, phones destroyed it
@@MARIUS2776 Agreed
Spent jr. high at the peak of the disco era. For our school dances, we tried to make the gymnasium into Studio 54. Lol, we fell a little short--but had fun trying. 😜
That does sound fun!
Agree , nightlife is not the same as it used to be, although I never got to go to Studio 54 because I was less then 10 years of age at the time, this is one club that I would have loved to have visited, to this day it's talked about. Notice a lot of comments regarding how clubs are not the same , and speaking of social media , this I also agree with , recently was out in Las Vegas, multi million clubs and operations and amazing music etc.. but the issue is just that , no one speaks to anyone , most are on cell phones, facebook, snap chat, Grindr, and more. No interest in going out unless someone comes up with a rule of cell phones must be left in a locked area with your coat check / in a small locker, the real fun needs to come back!
Good idea. Start a dancing club banning mobile phones. Have pay phones inside the club instead!
Gutted for all the ppl that died cause the aids virus, if only it was 10-20yrs later these guys would still be here , such a tragedy, RIP to all the lost souls of studio 54 and everywhere else that suffered this horrendous disease 💔
That’s great it happened
should have kept it their pants
Born in 1973, came alive during the 90s but the club scene was already dwindling yet we still had techno, dance music etc. The Internet and social media killed it. I think Gen X was the last to experience this...
Yes, thank god I got to experience nightclubs the 90’s, gen x baby
@@KellyDFlynn aug 25 1978 here
Same here. Some of the clubs in the 90s were pretty wild.
I was a 90's club-goer, it was a special time!
Love the disco mixed with early fusion house music. The atmosphere was great.
The beautiful 70s ❤️☀️
I had some very very good times at discos, loved the music, the vibe and dancing was fabulous!
I wish they would have a one night only of Studio 54 just so we can experience what it was like back in the day. I would just love that
Amazing video!!! I love disco and studio 54!!!
This music will forever touch my heart and soul deeply from ALL the Great Memories :)
@Believe Me And how Ugly you Are.
I love the 1998 film ''54'' with Ryan Phillippe and Salma Hayak. It's a good ''insider'' story about being pimped off by club owner Steve Rubbell. I used to drive by Studio 54 in 1977 . The lines to get in were so long that I preferred to go to a salsa music night club with the best of the live bands for dancing.
God I miss the 70s and the 80s for that matter
"Welcome to the hotel california" song springs to mind.
What fun it was ! I remember the night Truman Capote tried to get Elizabeth Taylor to leave with him to go the Dakota Apartments to see Salvatore Dahli who was visiting someone there.. She was not interested, but being very sweet with Truman, and then he suddenly just passed out. Everyone had a grand laugh about it later.
You have to admit that the 70s had the best *fashion* and *dances*
A great era ,nothing will ever replace Studio 54 , iconic ,the era of disco ,hedionism and glamour .
I was too young during this time. However, teen discos existed during that era. I remembered dancing with a girl with We Are Family. Great memories.
I was 13 but we were allowed to get into the “Rock Island Disco” at Six Flags over Texas. I felt like I was part of something big.
I was there, too! Maybe we danced next to each other. 😁 Good times!
" cocaine is a hell of a drug"
Rick "Superfreak/Mary Jane Girls" James... "I'm Rick James, B#%@h." - Dave Chapelle
This looks like a before RAVE
Oxy’s are better but they weren’t around then
@@mordecaiesther3591 it was a rave. Disco was fueled by the early versions of MDMA aka ecstasy
My mom was regular there, she dance with this tall handsome whit guy with mopy blonde hair one night, and it was actually the blonde guy from the dukes of hazzard show
Yeah she got popped off
@@MrCapochannel what does that mean?
@@MrCapochannel no she didn't, it was mostly gay sex going on in the balcony
@ no, ughh nope she went to dance, enjoy the music and the coke.
@@76footballlover oh..... 😓
Agree with many of the comments here, especially Victor Atomic's about the decline of nightlife/clubbing in recent years due to social media and technology. I was wondering if it was just here in Louisville or elsewhere too. We used to have packed clubs & bars over 20 years ago (including one called Sparks which was a minor league version of Studio 54). If you wanted to socialize back then, you had to get out of your house. Now when you go out, many places are dead on a Saturday night even. The ones that are crowded, very rookie league and ghetto. Nobody dresses up either. That or everyone has their heads buried in their phones. In Chicago it's somewhat better but not that great either, especially compared to 15-20 years ago. Pretty sad to be in your mid-40s and act like an 80 year old on weekends watching TV with nowhere to go!?
Joseph Saylor I live in the NY suburbs (which used to be hot and heavy in the 1970s) and to my knowledge what passes now for nightlife is sitting with your friends in TGIF eating overpriced, mediocre fat food, texting selfies to the person two feet in front of you, and once in a while looking up at one of the 250 flatscreens showing ESPN or FOX SPORTS to see how your team is doing. Nightlife is DEAD and BURIED, at least the way we remember it.
I live in Chicago and I got to experience the last awesome clubbing years back I. 2007. After that it all went to crap.
@@mariogiresi6792 Agreed! Nightlife in the exciting form we experienced it in IS dead & buried and its a CRYING shame.
Time to go back to the cocktail parties of the 1950s and 1960s. Problem is, people are not interesting in their own right as they were. Today people have no life because it all revolves around politics, pop culture like the Kardashians and social media. Life has become stale and music and film has followed.
i was there about a year before it closed...Great Time i'll never forget.!!!
The band Chic wrote a song in 1978, "Le Freak", after being refused entry to the club on New Year's Eve 1977, despite having been invited by Grace Jones.
Rubell turned away Nile Rogers and Bernard, because he propositioned them for sex trying to get them to experiment. That’s what they don’t tell you, Rubell Despised Women and HATED Heterosexuals. He was also discriminatory against Lesbians and ACTUAL Transsexuals. Those inside were Drag Queens.
I remember being about 14 in 1977 and seeing my Grandmother's STAR magazine with a pic of Bianca Jagger being spun around by Sterling St. Jacques....she had her legs wrapped around his torso. That made a pretty big impression on me in all my innocence and naivety. For some reason that image always stuck in my head about Studio 54.
My mom's friend Tony got in back in the day. R.I.P kind soul ❤
At 2:56 Steve says to a guy that's trying to get in "You're wearing bell bottoms" I didn't realize bell bottoms had gone out of style in 1979, I thought they lasted into the early 80's. (I wasn't born until 1984)
Nah. In 1979 and into the 80s, tight designer jeans were the "look"
@@jerseytomato100 ah ok
Yes. Actually in 78-79 major change in men’s fashion when lapels got narrow, ties skinny, and collars small. Largely the result of GQ and N Y. Caught many off guard, even mainstream clothing companies. Straight leg, tight jeans replaced the flares and platform shoes were history (actually the latter were gone by 1977). And in 79 was a major interest in western-inspired looks but with a disco aspect, along with some elements of the new wave look of the 80s and even preppy, all as a reaction to the polyester huge-collar thing going on in the mid 70s.
Nope. Tight designer jeans and then parachute pants that were tapered around the ankle.
Seeing all these emotions and stories, wonderful and of course the tragedy, its like reading a theatrical performance 🙏
So much Coke!!!!
Those were the best of times. After I would dance at the Copa I would saunter over to Studio 54 hoping I would be let in. I was never picked though. Even though I was decked out! I loved that era though.
Yeah, I heard it was hard to be picked to go in, even if you looked amazing. Too exclusive for me but it's a bastion of 70's party culture.
I was a DJ in the '80s. Too young to experience the night life of the '70's though. In my book, you guys' commentary all make sense.
AWWWWW FREAK OUT!!!! when dude said they wouldn't let him in😂😂😂😂 reminds me of the story of how the record FREAK OUT came to be.
skfj67 it actually meant
AWWWW FUCK OFF!!! 🗣😹. But they couldn’t say that on the radio
@@paolitna28 it was supposed to be fuck off. Became freak off and finally freak out
I was there and I am still alive.
Please tell us your stories!
You need to write a book!!!! ❤️☀️
Me too!!!
Tell me more! I wish i had this chance.
@Ol Cripple 2.0 all disco
I lived through this era. I was 21 in 1977. It..was..fantastic! I lived in the discos then, three, four nights a week. I even took a dance class in 1977 and they played Native New Yorker when it was new. Worked during the day, danced at night. It was not anything as it has been made out by the stupid media. It was classy, elegant, and anything but crude. You had to have good hygiene, dress nice (NO Jeans!), and mannerly. If not, you were NOT getting in and certainly not going to get dance with the ladies. At least where I danced in Minneapolis and Dallas it was that way. Long live Scottie's on Seventh in Minneapolis! I dance Ballroom now, and we still do the Hustle. It is a bit different but it pays homage to that time. 70's and 80's were great times.
random guy in 79:
"Am I late for the free coke giveaway?"
Rick James, rest in peace, told stories about Studio 54, in which people with bum cocaine off of him, celebrities too.
He would act as if though he didn't have any on him even though he did have cocaine.
The only NYC nightclub I didnt go to back in the day. Refused to stand on line and wait to get picked.
I was lucky to get by the back door with the help of the bouncer for free me and my sister were going home from Rozland night club. That vas beginning of the 80.It was heaven.
mid 70s to early 80s we went to the BBC disco in Chicago, fun times great memories
It was such a fun place to go to. I am still in my 50s and loved going there. I recognized many faces from this clip...
I envy you
How did you get in?
Is the movie 54 accurate
I'm jealous.
This was the greatest time to really party & dance, every night if you wanted to. There were clubs everywhere in NYC and the boroughs. AIDS slowed things down quite a bit. It was like they say it was in the roaring 20’s. For almost two decades it was the worlds greatest party and you were lucky to have been invited. I feel blessed that I got to live the madness that was the club days.
Ne too.
Not Madness..... Simply Divine Disco Dance!!
The dance that came out of Studio 54 was hustle and it's very much alive today, or was pre-COVID, so if you want to lock into some of the flowing groove style of dancing you see in the best clips from the old days, search out Street Hustle, New York Hustle, and Latin Hustle.
Damn ! At least let people in that know how to dance! A lot of square people in “54” stiff as hell. All the good dancers were over at the Paradise Garage , without a doubt!
You may have a point. But a video that seems to gone from RUclips DID show some people dancing well, and did a better job than this of conveying how chic it probably was. (Was never there myself). I do recall at the places I went lots of people were excellent dancers and didn’t do that cringe inducing stuff in Saturday Night Fever.
What I Was Thinking Lol ~ By Watching This ~ If They Let People in By Their Dancing Skills~ Half the Floor Be Empty 😄😏
Looks like great fun! Unfortunately, I was born in the early 90s. By the time I was old enough to go clubbing, the scene was beginning to die out 😞 Wish I had a time machine.
I love the time machine comment ☺️
I was in the 80’s era but man 70’s seemed just as awesome!
I’m 30 and I wished this was the same now. I’m literally the only gay I know that wants to go out and “dance” (Castro/San Francisco). Everyone else says they don’t go out to just dance but to hook up. It’s annoying to see the dance floor full of people not even dancing, especially when in the middle of it all . . . I feel like millennial gays are taking for granted the magic that we were as the gay community. An unapologetic fraternity/sorority of brothers and sisters exploring this existence through expression. I would love to own a bar/club here in the city and have it be like Babylon from QAF with different nights of different themes and encourage people to dress up, like studio 54 meets Ball Room meets Trannyshack/Mother.
Push push in the bush...so baby lets get it to it ....are you ready for this!! What times! It was just less stress and more joy...Today is just plain crazy.
I worked in a disco. It was wild. Loved it!!
Wonderful enjoyable times. Lived in DC and went to New York on self treat times. Memories. 💜🌈🌉🌃🎼🎵🎧🎤🎶🙂🙃😉
Those two queens are hilarious!
And that's just the males.
They waited in line so they could do some lines
Thank you for sharing 🤠 I love watching this ❤️
I was a senior in high school ‘79 - ’80.
In my speech class someone gave a report on Studio 54 and how a lot of people were doing a really expensive drug called ‘cocaine’ at that club.
That was the first I had ever heard of Studio 54 or of cocaine.
Doesn’t anybody remember the way to sneak in from the roof ,than work your way down from inside,once you were in no one questioned you why you were there and we were 17!!!
Yeah, When Mike Stone Productions. Took up leasing the Club, THAT was The Place where some individuals would try to get into the Club, UNFORTUNATELY MORE than a Few Ended up getting Stuck. PEACE.
@@SUNGLUNGRYU good times
Did you do this?
Forever Disco party times .
I WAS BORN APRIL 1962 AND BELIEVE ME I DID IT ALL. FUN FUN FUN
Omg the blow in the early 80s was sooooooooooooooooooooooo good!!!
The boys were just as pretty as the girls back then.
Well, okay, but to really get the experience of 70s disco you’d have to play “I Feel love” by Donna Summer or “Magnifique” by Charisma or “Hit n’Run” by Loleatta Holloway. Or even “Give Me a Break” by Vivian Vee with its exotic instrumental part. “We Are Family” was a good song but a lackluster dance song - the best disco exploited the fantastic sound tech in these clubs.
Love this wish it was 24 hours long! :D Long LIVE DISCO and GROOVIN and BOOGIN' TO ThA BEATS
It's cool that back then every age went to clubs, not just teens and twenty somethings like now a days
Manhattan in the 1970s was some of the best times of my life❤
Studio 54 had special areas where people "where getting closer". It was the kingdom of AIDS.
Stupid comment. It was 1977. AIDS was still a few years out. Wrong decade dope.
11dsw no. It wasn't discovered until the mid 80s people started dying from aids. But it takes a few years to start showing so I did see on a documentary that aids did start in clubs like this during the late 70s
@@bigtinymanowarrior7330... it did not start in the discos. It was spreading from all over. If it was exclusively in the club scene then all of my friends would have been dead many many years ago. We whored around with 100's of people during that era. We are all here, families and all. It was not rampant in the Late 70's. It just wasn't.
11dsw The golden period of Studio 54 disco was from 1977 until 1980 when its founders were jailed. That period HIV was unknown to nearly all.
Also the average incubation period of HIV without any medicines is ten years and without any symptoms.
So most of people who were infected during the golden period of Studio 54 became ill with AIDS and died during mid80's and early 90's.
Afterwards the incubation period of HIV could be prolonged with medicines.
@@AgnostosGnostos yes, I know this. It wasn't everywhere and it didn't start in discos, like someone said a few comments back...also people sometimes became ill within a year or so.
Rudolf Nureyev in Studio 54, what a legend x
I watch a channel from Positano Italy & they always show his old island off the coast.
I feel like I will turn into a pillar of salt just looking at this
😩
Lol 😶😏
Lol! Indeed Sodom and Gomorrah 😆
😂😂😂😭
Well, nearly everyone here is DEAD from Cocaine abuse or AIDS.
I would’ve given anything to be there! We had the best times in the late 80’s/early to mid 90’s going to clubs and dancing till daybreak! The dance floor would be so crowded and loud and FUN! No Studio 54 but more than good enough! I miss it! Nothing like that anymore.
These kind of partys are still going on but not in the spotlight anny more, you just have to know the write people ;)
As in Authors?
Probably not with all the celebs, rich people, regular people, old people, drugs, great music.. maybe some parts, but not all unfortunately 🤷🏾♀️
@@lowe-quay-shush 😂😂
People knew how to have fun back then
What a great era! I miss it! Miss dressing up and being around people that did the same.
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