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The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, and the Culture of the Night
The Last Party Studio 54 Disco and the Culture of the Night Author:Anthony Haden-Guest A window into the zeitgeist of the 70s- disco mania, sexual abandon, coke and 'ludes, glitter and glam-the era of the last good time Studio 54 was the epicenter of disco culture and pre-AIDS debauchery. Now, journalist and nightworld denizen Anthony Haden-Guest takes us behind the velvet rope that separated the celebrities from the wanna-bes, in... more »to an all-night world of revelry, sensation, and decadence. Going beyond the endless partying with Liza, Bianca, Halston, Andy, and Mick, Haden-Guest probes the seamy underside of Studio 54: the drugs, the deaths, and the corruption that eventually shuttered the club. It is the story of Studio 54's flamboyant owners, Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager, who achieved early success beyond their wildest imaginings, came within a hair's breadth of great power, and then crashed and burned.« less