"Studio 54 Radio Studio 54 Radio is a disco and freestyle music radio station. The station is operated by Sirius XM Radio and is classified under the ""Dance/Electronic"" category. The channel was originally known as The Strobe from 2002 to 2011, when it was relaunched under its current incarnation, an homage to the New York City discothèque Studio 54. On November 12, 2008, The Strobe was eliminated from the Sirius lineup as a result of the Sirius/XM channel lineup reorganization. On December 16, due to subscriber demand, Sirius XM Radio announced that the channel would be reactivated on January 15,"
"Sessions at West 54th Sessions at West 54th was an American television program that featured music performances, and was in some ways a pop music variation on the theme set by the long-lived ""Austin City Limits"", though the featured musicians represented a number of musical genres. It was called ""Sessions at West 54th"" because it was taped at Sony Music Studios on West 54th Street in Manhattan. Jeb Brien and Niki Vettel, APS senior v.p. for program development, developed the series after working on APS concert specials with Suzanne Vega and Ottmar Liebert. It was produced for public television syndicator"
"by Noel Ashman and Josh Hadar who was one of the Allied partners. Upstairs at Studio 54 performers included Mark Ronson, Samantha Ronson, Gloria Estefan, Jody Watley, and ""Newsical"". The building, which is still frequently referred to as the ""Studio 54 building"", houses a variety of tenants, among them a theater venue, offices, and an educational facility called Mandl School, the College of Allied Health. This building also houses Olivtree Securities LLC. In 1965, the building housed Scepter Records's offices, warehouse space and a recording studio, where The Velvet Underground & Nico album was recorded in April 1966. In the"
"54 (film) 54 is a 1998 American drama film written and directed by Mark Christopher, about Studio 54, a world-famous New York City discotheque, the main setting of the film. It stars Ryan Phillippe, Salma Hayek, Neve Campbell, and Mike Myers as Steve Rubell, the club's co-founder. Prior to its release in 1998, the film was extensively reshot and recut, and then released to poor critical reaction, but somewhat respectable box office. In 2008, a bootleg version of the director's cut was screened at Outfest, leading to interest for its release. In 2015, Christopher and Miramax premiered a new edit"
"By the late 1970s, most major U.S. cities had thriving disco club scenes, and DJs would mix dance records at clubs such as Studio 54 in New York City, a venue popular among celebrities. Discothèque-goers often wore expensive, extravagant and sexy fashions. There was also a thriving drug subculture in the disco scene, particularly for drugs that would enhance the experience of dancing to the loud music and the flashing lights, such as cocaine and Quaaludes, the latter being so common in disco subculture that they were nicknamed ""disco biscuits"". Disco clubs were also associated with promiscuity as a reflection"
"54 the discothèque that defined an era of nightlife had opened in April 1977. Paramount Pictures had just begun shooting ""Saturday Night Fever;"" by the end of the summer, disco would be America's second largest grossing entertainment business after professional sports. If discos like Studio 54 provided an escape from the ugliness, its punk analog, a dive on The Bowery called CBGB, embraced it, featuring acts such as Television, Blondie, Patti Smith, and the Ramones. ""Broken youth stumbling into the home of broken age,"" wrote Frank Rose in the ""Village Voice"". In the midst of the various threads, Mahler writes"
"New York's legendary Studio 54. That production received a nomination for a Lucille Lortel award as Best Musical and a Drama Desk nomination for Best Lyrics. It was directed by Glenn Casale with original music and lyrics by Ben Schatz. The a cappella musical Perfect Harmony, a comedy about two high school a cappella groups vying to win the National championship, made its Off Broadway debut at Theatre Row's Acorn Theatre on 42nd Street in New York City in October, 2010 after a successful out-of-town run at the Stoneham Theatre, in Stoneham, Massachusetts. Perfect Harmony features the hit music of"
"the third, and final, season. Sessions at West 54th Sessions at West 54th was an American television program that featured music performances, and was in some ways a pop music variation on the theme set by the long-lived ""Austin City Limits"", though the featured musicians represented a number of musical genres. It was called ""Sessions at West 54th"" because it was taped at Sony Music Studios on West 54th Street in Manhattan. Jeb Brien and Niki Vettel, APS senior v.p. for program development, developed the series after working on APS concert specials with Suzanne Vega and Ottmar Liebert. It was"
"cultural phenomenon of the disco era: rampant promiscuity and public sex. While the dance floor was the central arena of seduction, actual sex usually took place in the nether regions of the disco: bathroom stalls, exit stairwells, and so on. In other cases the disco became a kind of ""main course"" in a hedonist's menu for a night out."" Famous 1970s discothèques included celebrity hangouts such as Manhattan's Studio 54, which was operated by Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager. Studio 54 was notorious for the hedonism that went on within; the balconies were known for sexual encounters, and drug use"
"in Manhattan. They signed the lease for Studio 54 in January 1977, and six weeks later, it opened. In January 1977, Schrager and Rubell signed the lease for Studio 54, renting a space that had originally been the Gallo Opera House and last served as a CBS studio. They drew on the venue's existing theatrical infrastructure to change the club's look and feel constantly, creating exciting sets that transformed the space. Multiple times each night, they dramatically reinvented the environment, size, and design of Studio 54. They often hosted special ""one-night-only"" theme parties, for which the club underwent complete metamorphosis"
"their use to spur ticket sales. In addition, the company was led under the musical direction of conductor Carlo Peroni from 1921 until his death twenty-three years later. Under Peroni's leadership the company fared well, and in 1927 Gallo built the Gallo Opera House on West 54th Street in New York City. It would later become Studio 54. The San Carlo company holds the distinction of having performed in the very first sound film of a complete opera, ""Pagliacci"", in 1929. Gallo did not try to turn the opera into a ""moving picture"", rather this was a filmed stage production,"
"Studio 54 (Las Vegas) Studio 54 opened in Las Vegas in December 1997 and closed in February 2012 at the MGM Grand. Designed to be a replica of the original Studio 54 nightclub, it had most of the original elements and equipment, including the ""Man in the Moon"" and the spoon, however the two were never displayed together. The club was visited on opening night by Elton John, one of the most frequent guests at the original location. It was one of Las Vegas' most popular dance clubs, with a reputation for a strict door policy, but not as strict"
"in close relationship with the gay scene —see for example Studio 54. Discotheques, and their music soon became favorites of gay men, who found in its songs gay anthems, as ""It's raining men"", ""Y.M.C.A."", ""I'm coming out"", or ""So many men, so little time"", in spite of the homophobia of some of the divas singing. Mid 1980s appears the clubbing subculture, with centers in New York City, Ibiza, London, and Paris; one of its most iconic clubs being the Sound Factory in New York City. These clubs usually offered electronic dance music to big masses of gay men. By the"
"had elaborate lighting systems that throbbed to the beat of the music. In the 1970s, notable discos included ""Artemis"" in Philadelphia, ""Studio One"" in Los Angeles, ""Leviticus"" in New York, ""Dugan's Bistro"" in Chicago, and ""The Library"" in Atlanta. In the late 70s, Studio 54 in New York City was arguably the most well known nightclub in the world. This club played a major formative role in the growth of disco music and nightclub culture in general. The Copacabana, another New York nightclub dating to the 1940s, had a revival in the late 1970s when it embraced disco; it would"
"Studio 54 under the name The New Ritz. In 1990, the club changed the name back to that of its former location, The Ritz. The new owners, CAT Entertainment Corp operated the club primarily as a venue for new wave, punk, Eurodisco, and heavy metal artists and also offered it as a public venue available for rent. In 1993, CAT Entertainment was acquired by Cabaret Royale Corporation, a nightclub operator based in Dallas. CAT Entertainment completed a renovation of the nightclub earlier abandoned because of a lack of funds, and resurrected both the nightclub and the Studio 54 trademark, which"
"In 2018, it was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being ""culturally, historically, or artistically significant."" Part of the lyrics mention ""Stompin' at the Savoy"", referencing a song of the same name composed by Edgar Sampson. They also invite the listener to ""Come on down to the 54"", a reference to Studio 54, which was a popular nightclub in New York City at that time. This song commemorates Studio 54 for its notoriously long customer waiting lines, exclusive clientele, and discourteous doormen. According to guitarist Nile Rodgers, the song was devised during"
"introducing Paris to funk and soul playing the O'Jays, Billy Paul, Teddy Pendergrass and Marvin Gaye. While some attributed Emaer's success largely to Cuevas who had the crowd pressing at its doors and the packing the dance floor, Emaer also accomplished something new with the clientele. He mixed the ""jet set"" with kids that just wanted to dance, hets with homos, and artists and intellectuals with anyone who had an interesting look. The combination of excellent music and clientele worked. And after a visit to Studio 54 in New York, Emaer returned with even greater ambitions to create a space"
"and Bobby Moore. In March 2011, the musical ""Baby It's You!"", which told the story of Greenberg and the development of Scepter Records, premiered on Broadway to lukewarm-to-poor reviews. In 1965, Scepter moved its offices to 254 West 54th Street in Manhattan, New York City (a building now famous for housing the legendary Studio 54 disco). The building included warehouse space and its own recording studio. Though few albums of note were recorded at Scepter Studios, one was the influential avant-garde rock and roll album ""The Velvet Underground & Nico"", much of which was recorded there in April 1966, by"
"Rod Stewart, and the Rolling Stones to New York City. Vanini ran some of the greatest clubs in Europe including Regines. He and Peppo Vanini had met at Studio 54. Madelyn Fudeman was the publicity person. Xenon was regarded as much more of a ""Fashion Crowd"", while Studio 54 was more Hollywood. Still, many celebrities such as Andy Warhol, Halston, Michael Jackson, Jack Nicholson, Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall, Tom Cruise, Richard Avedon, Cher, O.J. Simpson, Christopher Reeve, Elton John, Roger Moore, John McEnroe, Tony Curtis, Brooke Shields, David Kennedy, John F. Kennedy Jr. and Robin Williams frequented the club."
"pressing more and more at the door to the Sept to hear Guy Cuevas, but a visit to New York in 1977, in which he discovered Studio 54. He was impressed and repulsed at the same time. ""It is completely sterilized, a ghetto for model agencies and Régine's emirs..."" He described the clubgoers as ""totally clean, beautiful, they look like they are fed on high quality corn."" He became determined to offer a French response, eventually choosing Le Palace, the decrepit theater and architectural gem on rue Faubourg Montmartre. The theater space, where the balconies were left intact, allowed le"
"club; they typically had unprotected sex, because in 1980, HIV-AIDS had not yet been identified. At The Saint, ""...dancers would elope to an un[monitored] upstairs balcony to engage in sex."" The promiscuity and public sex at discos was part of a broader trend towards exploring a freer sexual expression in the 1970s, an era that is also associated with ""swingers clubs, hot tubs, [and] key parties."" Famous disco bars included the Paradise Garage and Crisco Disco as well as ""... cocaine-filled celeb hangouts such as Manhattan's Studio 54,"" which was operated by Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager. Studio 54 was"
"Loft for a short period in the 1970s as the hottest underground dance party. When Steve Rubell opened Studio 54, he asked Siano to be one of its resident DJs, so while remaining at The Gallery on weekends, during the week he could be seen at Studio 54 or one of the other now legendary discos that appeared at that time. Siano worked the DJ booth at Bianca Jagger's infamous Studio 54 birthday party. He was known for playing underground alternative music as opposed to the disco hits that were dominating the nightclub scene. Siano was fired from Studio 54"
"Candace Bushnell wrote for NIGHT, stating... "" “I wrote for this paper called Night Magazine, which was mainly just a bunch of pictures of people at Studio 54. I would do little interviews and profiles.”... NIGHT (magazine) NIGHT is an art/fashion/music/literature/nightlife periodical co-edited by Anton Perich and Robert Henry Rubin. Established in Manhattan, New York, in 1978 the magazine was created during the punk-new wave-disco nightclub era of among others; Studio 54, Xenon, Club A, Regine's, The Continental, Hurrah's, Danceteria, and the Mudd Club. Today the magazine continues to focus on the beautiful, the exclusive, the intelligent and the controversial."
"environment and created moveable theatrical sets and lights using the copious existing TV lighting circuits and fly system, which allowed for a dynamic, constantly-changing, environment. Where formerly all clubs had been very dark, at Studio 54 the crowd could be lit brightly. Within a month of opening, the New York State Liquor Authority raided Studio 54 for selling liquor without a license, and closed it. The owners of the nightclub said the incident was a ""misunderstanding"". The next night the club reopened, serving fruit juice and soda instead of liquor. Prior to the raid, the nightclub had been using daily"
"century, when a number of avant-garde performers helped created styles such as hard bop and free jazz. Later still, New York was the major American home for the punk rock and new wave movements, and was the scene for the invention of both hip hop music and Latino salsa music. Musicians from New York have also dominated the Jewish-American klezmer scene, the Greenwich Village old-time music revival, and the straight 1960s pop music exemplified by the Brill Building sound. Tin Pan Alley was a center for music publishing around the turn of the 20th century. Numerous professional songwriters lived in"
"was a doorman during the late 1970s. The band Chic wrote a song in 1978, ""Le Freak"", after being refused entry to the club on New Year's Eve 1977, despite being invited by Grace Jones. In December 1978, Rubell was quoted in the New York newspapers as saying that Studio 54 had made $7 million in its first year and that ""only the Mafia made more money"". This got the attention of the IRS. Shortly thereafter the nightclub was raided and Rubell and Schrager were arrested for skimming $2.5 million. Studio 54 closed with a final party in February 1980"
"traditionalist rock tropes and often reflected an abrasive, confrontational and nihilistic worldview. No wave musicians such as the Contortions, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Mars, DNA, Theoretical Girls and Rhys Chatham instead experimented with noise, dissonance and atonality in addition to non-rock styles. The former four groups were included on the Eno-produced ""No New York"" compilation (1978), often considered the quintessential testament to the scene. The decadent parties and art installations of venues such as Club 57 and the Mudd Club would become cultural hubs for musicians and visual artists alike, with figures such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and"
"one year later, in 1997, a second three-storey gallery on West Broadway, in New York City's SoHo district. The inaugural exhibition in New York, which, according to David Schonauer, editor-in-chief of American ""Photo"" magazine, became ""the inspiration for the special issue of American ""Photo"","" was the critically acclaimed multimedia and photography installation entitled ""The Last Party: Nightworld in Photographs"". The show was timed to coincide with the would-be 20th anniversary of Studio 54 and release of Anthony Haden-Guest’s nightlife chronicle, ""The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco and the Culture of the Night"". The diverse group of American and European artists"
"selection of photographs taken by Andy Warhol at Studio 54; video clips of Disco Step-by-Step Television Show, and rare artifacts from legendary nightspots ranging from The Loft to the Paradise Garage. Artists represented Donna Summer, Grace Jones, the Bee Gees, Sylvester James, A Taste of Honey, and many more. With help from a group of expert consultants (Marty Angelo, Nicky Siano, etc.) led by Vince Aletti, the first journalist to write nationally about disco in 1973, the exhibit helped to change people's thinking about a musical genre that has been hugely important and hugely misunderstood. The exhibit made stops at"
"Feinstein's/54 Below. Feinstein's/54 Below features a variety of musical artists and styles, including musical theatre, opera, and jazz, the last of which was featured in a series co-produced with WBGO. In September 2015, 54 Below announced a creative alliance with performer and singer, pianist, and music revivalist Michael Feinstein, becoming Feinstein's/54 Below. Feinstein's/54 Below was used in the setting of the Downton Abbey parody ""Downton Abbey the Musical"". It was also featured in the third season of the webseries ""Submissions Only"". A partnership with Broadway Records has produced live albums of selected shows performed at Feinstein's/54 Below. Feinstein's/54 Below Feinstein's/54"
"genre due to its close relationship with another well known New York genre referred to as Latin jazz. This Afro-Cuban rhythmic form later branched out from New York to various Latin American countries to form regional variants. In terms of music and culture, New York has always been diverse. After the Great Depression and Dustbowl, Folk became a pillar of the New York music scene and it quickly found a home base in Greenwich Village—a neighborhood that was the center of artistic innovation of all kinds. Israel G Young is also known as Izzy, a famous dancer in Greenwich village,"
"54, Schrager and Rubell opened their next nightclub, Palladium, in the old Academy of Music building in New York City. They enlisted world-renowned Japanese architect Arata Isozaki to reimagine the old music hall into a nightclub, while still maintaining the space's integrity. Palladium was the first of its kind in that art was the focal point of the club's experience. He collaborated with artists Francesco Clemente, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Julian Schnabel, Kenny Scharf, and Keith Haring to create a curated environment. Large video installations lining the dance floor were ""undeniably powerful"" as part of the art and architecture; throughout the night"
"Downtown music Downtown music is a subdivision of American music, closely related to experimental music. The scene the term describes began in 1960, when Yoko Ono, one of the early Fluxus artists, opened her loft at 112 Chambers Street, in a part of Lower Manhattan later named Tribeca, to be used as a performance space for a series curated by La Monte Young and Richard Maxfield. Prior to this, most classical music performances in New York City occurred ""uptown"" around the areas that the Juilliard School at Lincoln Center and Columbia University would soon occupy. Ono's gesture led to a"