Studio 54: Halloween 1977

God may have made the boringly bucolic country, but the devil made the town. Ever since Sodom and Gomorrah, cities have been synonyms for vice, infernos of wicked delight where prohibitions collapse. In New Yorkduring the late 1970s, the favoured location of the beautiful and the damned was Studio 54 – a defunct television studio on West 54th street, reoutfitted as a spangled nightclub where a thousand customers could drink, dance, drug themselves, and retire to a shady balcony to have public sex...

Guardian Online - taken from a new (ish) book of photographs by Hasse Persson, Studio 54.

Disco: The Land Of Make Believe

The Sun.
Okay, it's getting old now.
And this from the guy who wrote Le Freak (Meaning 'Fuck Off!') cause they wouldn't let him into Studio 54.
I love Nile Rodgers - and Chic and Sister Sledge, especially - but enough of this Disco revisionism.