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The disco sound was just wonderful.

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It was exciting.

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Powerful.
You know, spank you.

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And you just had a good time.

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Disco brought together Black Pride,

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women's liberation and LGBT culture.

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It was the coming together
of that that made it so powerful.

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Listening to the music and...

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..and letting yourself go,

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you become a different person.

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Supernature

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Supernature

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Supernature

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Supernature... 

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It was this powder keg
chain reaction that happened

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that made it suddenly
totally take over the airwaves.

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Supernature... 

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It was, of course,
Saturday Night Fever

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that really tipped everything over,
that tipped the scales.

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It just set the world on fire.

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Disco was on everybody's lips.

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Clubs were packed every night.

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Studio 54.

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I created it as a playground -

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sex, drugs, disco,
whatever you need.

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In the late '70s, the outsider
became the insider.

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The black disco diva
was a breakthrough persona.

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Someone like Donna Summer,

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she was a disco queen.

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Don't forget Gloria
in all her glory-a.

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Supernature... 

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I think that era of music allowed
the disco diva to have this stage

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to be adored and celebrated.

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Disco freed me.

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It saved me.

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RICHARD NIXON: In all the decisions
I have made in my public life,

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I have always tried to do
what was best for the nation.

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Throughout the long and
difficult period of Watergate,

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I felt it was my duty to persevere,

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to make every possible effort
to complete the term of office

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to which you elected me.

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In the mid 1970s, the United States
was not a happy place.

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There was the Watergate scandal,

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and any faith that Americans
had in government

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was shaken to its core.

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What percentage of the
American people do you think

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still have confidence
in President Nixon?

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Well, among young people, very few.
I'd say less than 25 percent.

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NIXON: Therefore, I shall resign the
presidency

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effective at noon tomorrow.

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OVER PA: Richard Nixon has announced
he will resign

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as president of the United States at
noon tomorrow.

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In my life and everybody I know,
Nixon was detested,

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but it was an intense period
of time.

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You knew you were living history.

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You knew that this is monumental.

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It was a hard time

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because of the Vietnam War,

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also a nuclear bomb threat.

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And Russia, you know, that they
might drop a bomb any day.

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Oh, my God. What we gonna do?

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The flip side of this dark moment is
that...

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..when life gets hard,
you party harder.

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I was living in New York
in the 1970s.

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All we wanted to do
was dance to disco music.

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I never can say goodbye... 

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It was a freedom.

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It was like, express yourself
was so welcomed and wanted.

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And music
was the common denominator.

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I mean, it was just igniting
people's dance souls.

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..turn around, you fool... 

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Why is everybody rushing and
flooding the doors of discotheque?

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Oh, I think it's because

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with all of the hardships that
are going on in the world today,

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people need a place to go
and relieve tension

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and then release their anxieties,

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and discotheques are a great place to
do just that.

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Ooh-hoo, baby

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I never can say goodbye

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No, no, no, hey

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I never can say goodbye

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Oh, no, I... 

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Gloria Gaynor
is a rock and roll singer

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whose records have really
never made it

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until she decided to specialise

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in a brand-new rock and roll
musical style called disco music.

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But there's that same
unhappy feeling

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There's that anguish,
there's the doubt... 

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She made you raise your hands up
and want to touch the ceiling

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while you were dancing
and screaming.

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When Gloria was doing her thing,

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I think she was
the First Lady of Disco.

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..is it so?

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I don't wanna let you go... 

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She was one of the earliest people

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to have a major presence,
in the clubs,

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was, you know, the Queen of Disco

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before there was such a title.

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No, no, no... 

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Gloria, did you ever think
this would happen?

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No, I really didn't.

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Not like this anyway.

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I always thought I would sing
eventually, but I never thought

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all this would happen.

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I never can say goodbye,
no, no, no... 

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I think disco means
to most people...

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..probably it means a lot of fun.

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To me...

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..it meant a change.

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In the early '70s,

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black women were caught
between a rock and a hard place.

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Statistically, they were
at the bottom of the heap.

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They earned less than most
any other group, male or female.

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They were victimised

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by a notorious
government-sponsored report

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called the Moynihan Report.

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It was a report that discussed

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what were the particular problems

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of blacks and Jews
and Puerto Ricans.

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Black women were literally blamed
for the problems of black men.

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Black women were heads
of their families,

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too matriarchal, too strong.

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And unfortunately,
when scholars produce a document

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that is government approved,

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people tend to believe it.

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And so rather than fight
against this,

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which was virtually impossible
for a group that oppressed to do,

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they tried not to be like that.

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You had to work hard to fit in,

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and to fit in,
you're going to be quiet.

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You're not going to bring
all your loud culture with you

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or whatever it is
and make demands,

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you're going to try and fit in.

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When I was growing up, the only time
that people heard my voice,

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I was singing.

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My father had been a minister,

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so we just had to kind of stick
to what we were told to do.

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I just wanted to sing.

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The pastor called me up on the stage
and I started singing.

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And the church people started
shouting

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and screaming and standing up
and waving.

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"Sing, baby! Sing that song."

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That was the beginning.

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The gospel diva or the soul diva,

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that's a really powerful,
full-bodied sound

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that moved into the mainstream
in the '60s.

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Sarah Dash, Nona Hendryx,

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Patricia Hoult -

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known as Patti LaBelle
And The Bluebells.

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Somewhere over the rainbow... 

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In the '60s,

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we were a traditional girl group
and we dressed alike.

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We did the kind of,

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you know, lead singer
with backing singers,

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waving their arms
and looking very nice.

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Patti LaBelle And The Bluebells

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were fulfilling a vision
of black womanhood

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that was on the tail end
of the early '60s Motown era.

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They embodied that
nonthreatening persona

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that America wanted to place
black women in.

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We were expected to carry ourselves
a certain way in the public,

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you know, well-dressed,
well behaved.

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That's how it was.

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..really do come true... 

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In the music industry,
we were fighting,

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trying to get out of that box that
we were put in

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in the '60s.

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So disco was wonderful.

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Disco did offer black women
new opportunities.

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Disco did give space for black women
to kind of add soul

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and funk and depth
to a lot of different kinds of music

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to kind of take centre stage,

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like Patti LaBelle
And The Bluebells.

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My next guest stars are the hottest
girl group in America.

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Man, they are truly hot and they've
got the hottest single, too -

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Lady Marmalade.

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And here they. Nona Hendryx,
Sara Dash and Patti LaBelle.

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Know throughout the music industry
as Labelle.

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Hey sister, go sister,
soul sister, go sister

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Hey sister, go sister,
soul sister, go sister

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He met Marmalade
down in old Moulin Rouge

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Struttin' her stuff
on the street... 

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When Patti LaBelle And The Bluebells
changed their name,

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they changed their look
and they changed it dramatically.

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Gitchie, gitchie, ya-ya, here
Uh-huh

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Mocha Chocolata, ya-ya... 

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Patti LaBelle And The Bluebells
were a girl group.

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Right?

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Labelle were a girl band.

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Voulez-vous danser avec moi,
ce soir?

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Voulez-vous danser avec moi? 

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Labelle looking like they just,
like, beamed in from some

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crazy, funky galaxy.

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It was just so over the top
and so amazing and so out there.

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That, to me, meant a certain
kind of freedom.

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Gitchie, gitchie, ya-ya, here... 

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The architect of the look of Labelle
was LeGaspi.

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He also designed the look for KISS.

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He also designed the look
for Funkadelic.

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Larry was already sort of making
things that looked

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like a futuristic look.

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And then with us being open
to even going further,

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he began to design more.

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More, more, more! 

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I was mesmerised and delighted
to see my people in a way

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that was unlike any way anyone
had ever imagined them.

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More, more, more

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Gitchie, gitchie, ya-ya, da-da

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Gitchie, gitchie, ya-ya... 

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We were just singing songs that felt
right to us or mattered to us,

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and the audience
were responding to it.

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..feelin' silky smooth... 

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Lady Marmalade is talking about
basically sex tourism and sex work.

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..cry

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More, more, more... 

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Women don't often get centre stage
or if there is a story that's

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being told, it's also a story
that's about titillation

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or about fetishization.

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It's like a playwright, you know,
someone describing something

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as opposed to judging it.

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And in a way that's not celebratory,

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but in a way that was
not downtrodden and horrible

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and that this is just yet another
aspect of life.

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I really think that music
was really important

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in terms of creating social change.

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And in this moment, you know,

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music was reflecting
black women's lives

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in a way that it hadn't ever been.

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I was so glad disco came in.

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You know, good music, good lyrics,

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songs that had a meaning to them.

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In the '60s,
we were known as Randamp;B singers.

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I'd rather be lonely
than to lose you...

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My songs were like,

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"I'm just a prison,"
and begging men not to leave me

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and, "Oh, God, if you leave me,
I'm just going to die," you know?

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I mean, this was the kind of songs
they would play on us women.

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Women. Men could sing
anything they wanted to sing.

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So to make a long story short,

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disco...freed me.

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It saved me.

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You know, I've been married
a few times,

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and I don't mind telling it

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cos, you know, I was in
one of those type of marriages,

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but it was dangerous.

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It was really a dangerous marriage.

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So I was doing Las Vegas
with Ray Charles.

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I was opening for Ray Charles.

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The last night, I decided
I was going to just sit

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in the audience and watch
Ray do his show.

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And my ex-husband, he was looking
for me, and he couldn't find me.

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And I was in the audience. And he
kept walking up and down the aisle.

255
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I saw him.

256
00:15:38,639 --> 00:15:42,680
And that's the night
when he went completely nuts.

257
00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:46,519
My suite was way up
on the 20th-something floor.

258
00:15:46,559 --> 00:15:48,199
And he pushed me, you know,

259
00:15:48,239 --> 00:15:52,559
he was pushing me all the way
through the lobby to the elevator,

260
00:15:52,599 --> 00:15:54,559
and then we get to the floor.

261
00:15:54,599 --> 00:15:56,919
He said, "I'm going to kill
you tonight.

262
00:15:56,959 --> 00:15:58,480
"I tell you what I'm going to do.

263
00:15:58,519 --> 00:16:00,839
"I'm going to throw you off
the balcony."

264
00:16:00,879 --> 00:16:02,279
20-something floors.

265
00:16:02,319 --> 00:16:03,559
He picked me up.

266
00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:09,360
And had me, holding me
over the banister like this.

267
00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:13,720
And I'm like, "This man
is going to kill me tonight.

268
00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:17,720
"How in the world?

269
00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:19,720
"Well, how am I going
to get out of this one?"

270
00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:21,519
I said,

271
00:16:21,559 --> 00:16:26,760
"You know, you are in this hotel
and it's owned by mafia.

272
00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:28,959
"This is Las Vegas.
We're in Las Vegas now.

273
00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:31,400
"See, you got to get out of here.

274
00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:33,199
"You got to walk out of here.

275
00:16:33,239 --> 00:16:37,919
"How are you going to feel with my
body splattered at the bottom

276
00:16:37,959 --> 00:16:40,319
"and my name is on the marquee?"

277
00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:42,519
And I said, "You won't make
it out of Vegas."

278
00:16:44,559 --> 00:16:48,000
He thought, and he brought me back
in.

279
00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:49,879
And he said,

280
00:16:49,919 --> 00:16:52,919
"I tell you what I'm going to do.
I'm just going to shoot you."

281
00:16:52,959 --> 00:16:55,839
So I laid... I just... You know, I
was so tired.

282
00:16:55,879 --> 00:16:57,239
I just lay down on the bed.

283
00:16:57,279 --> 00:16:59,160
I said, "OK, shoot me."

284
00:16:59,199 --> 00:17:00,559
I went to sleep.

285
00:17:01,639 --> 00:17:03,239
He had a gun like this.

286
00:17:03,279 --> 00:17:05,199
I said, "Just shoot me.
I won't know it."

287
00:17:05,239 --> 00:17:06,360
Just forget it.

288
00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:09,199
That's how Young Hearts Run Free
came about.

289
00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:18,800
What's the sense in sharing
this one and only life

290
00:17:18,839 --> 00:17:22,519
Ending up just another
lost and lonely wife

291
00:17:22,559 --> 00:17:25,040
You count up the years

292
00:17:25,080 --> 00:17:29,000
And they will be filled
with tears... 

293
00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:31,680
That song is for women.

294
00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:33,239
It's about survival.

295
00:17:33,279 --> 00:17:35,279
..to start over again

296
00:17:35,319 --> 00:17:39,519
You'll get the babies, but you
won't have your man

297
00:17:39,559 --> 00:17:44,839
While he's busy loving every woman
that he can...

298
00:17:45,120 --> 00:17:48,720
Candi Staton is singing about pain,

299
00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:52,319
and yet the power in her voice
says that she's no victim.

300
00:17:52,360 --> 00:17:54,239
..yourself be true... 

301
00:17:54,279 --> 00:17:56,239
She is telling her story

302
00:17:56,279 --> 00:17:59,319
and there's a triumph
just in the telling of the story.

303
00:17:59,919 --> 00:18:01,839
...run free 

304
00:18:01,879 --> 00:18:04,279
Never be hung up... 

305
00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:06,239
I used to go to the gay clubs.

306
00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:08,919
And they felt the same pain.

307
00:18:09,639 --> 00:18:11,480
You know, they were very abused.

308
00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:13,639
You know, because of their
preferences.

309
00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:15,480
Some of 'em lost their lives.

310
00:18:15,519 --> 00:18:19,440
They loved your music, they loved
how you made them feel.

311
00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:20,480
Isn't that amazing?

312
00:18:20,559 --> 00:18:23,000
You're singing a sad song
and folks are dancing.

313
00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:26,559
...is what's really going on today.

314
00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:32,480
We couldn't sing those type
of songs back in the early '60s.

315
00:18:32,519 --> 00:18:34,839
We started doing that in the '70s.

316
00:18:47,360 --> 00:18:51,519
For the longest time,
it was very hard for black acts

317
00:18:51,559 --> 00:18:54,519
to become strong pop acts,

318
00:18:54,559 --> 00:18:57,839
outside of something
like Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye.

319
00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:03,319
The charts in the '70s
were much more segregated.

320
00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:09,959
CANDI: During those days in music,
it was the Billboard charts.

321
00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:13,360
They had a pop side,
they had an Randamp;B column,

322
00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:15,239
but they weren't together.

323
00:19:15,279 --> 00:19:17,800
You made the Randamp;B charts,
which was all black.

324
00:19:17,839 --> 00:19:19,120
Everything was black.

325
00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:22,360
It was amazing
if you could get on the pop side.

326
00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:27,720
Disco made it possible
for black acts to become pop acts

327
00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:30,279
more than they ever had before.

328
00:19:30,319 --> 00:19:34,000
It meant that there were suddenly
a lot of black performers

329
00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:37,000
on the charts
that had not been there before,

330
00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:38,319
had not been...

331
00:19:38,360 --> 00:19:41,279
Not had the ability
to cross over in that way.

332
00:19:41,319 --> 00:19:46,480
I was on the Motown label
for five years.

333
00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:50,519
At that time
we were interested in singles,

334
00:19:50,559 --> 00:19:54,440
so I was in that studio recording.
It was like a job.

335
00:19:54,480 --> 00:19:56,559
I was in the studio all the time
recording,

336
00:19:56,599 --> 00:19:58,680
trying to get that single.

337
00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:00,000
They would want you to do it

338
00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:02,480
over and over and over and over
and over again.

339
00:20:02,519 --> 00:20:04,800
Trying to get that hit, right.

340
00:20:04,839 --> 00:20:06,360
Trying to get that single.

341
00:20:11,319 --> 00:20:12,559
Suzanne de Passe.

342
00:20:12,599 --> 00:20:16,160
She was running the Aandamp;R department
at Motown.

343
00:20:16,199 --> 00:20:18,720
She found the song.
She heard the song.

344
00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:29,919
That song was originally recorded
by Harold Melvin andamp; The Blue Notes.

345
00:20:29,959 --> 00:20:33,040
She thought that the song
was great with the guy singing that.

346
00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:36,480
But she says, "But if a woman sings
that, then that's really good."

347
00:20:36,519 --> 00:20:40,480
 Don't leave me this way

348
00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:43,959
I can't survive

349
00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:45,919
I can't stay alive... 

350
00:20:45,959 --> 00:20:49,480
It was specifically cut
as a disco song.

351
00:20:49,519 --> 00:20:51,440
You know, that psss, pss, psss?

352
00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:54,599
Don't leave me this way... 

353
00:20:54,639 --> 00:20:57,959
That was Suzanne de Passe
and Hal Davis.

354
00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:00,519
They cut it to be disco.

355
00:21:00,559 --> 00:21:02,120
They had a good beat, you know,

356
00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:04,080
that would get you out
to the dance floor

357
00:21:04,120 --> 00:21:06,480
and it just kept building and
building and building.

358
00:21:06,519 --> 00:21:07,720
And that's the kind of song

359
00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:09,559
that you like to dance to
in the club.

360
00:21:09,599 --> 00:21:12,239
Baby, my heart is full of love

361
00:21:12,279 --> 00:21:15,199
And it's all for you... 

362
00:21:15,239 --> 00:21:19,519
Female voices and female, you know,
female registering voices

363
00:21:19,559 --> 00:21:22,680
just work better
with dance music for some reason.

364
00:21:24,239 --> 00:21:25,959
And I feel like with disco

365
00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:29,400
there opened up a stage
for a lot of amazing women.

366
00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:34,239
It's only your good lovin'
can set me free.. 

367
00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:38,800
Somehow I got the test pressing,

368
00:21:38,839 --> 00:21:41,080
so I said,
"Ooh, I want to hear this."

369
00:21:41,120 --> 00:21:43,680
So I got to work and I
go to hear this real good.

370
00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:49,440
So a friend of mine was also friends
with a lady that owned the club

371
00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:53,319
that we used to go to dance
at called the Catch One.

372
00:21:53,360 --> 00:21:54,959
It was mostly like a gay club.

373
00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:57,199
The straight girls would call
it Catch None.

375
00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:04,000
And she allowed me to come
in there on an afternoon

376
00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:07,000
and play it, like,
with their equipment.

377
00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:09,279
That, "Owwww!" That was there.

378
00:22:09,319 --> 00:22:10,639
And...

379
00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:12,519
So the thing about a test pressing

380
00:22:12,559 --> 00:22:14,919
is you can only play it
so many times.

381
00:22:14,959 --> 00:22:16,639
So I played it so many times
it was like...

382
00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:18,160
By the end it was like, "Drrrrrr!"

383
00:22:18,199 --> 00:22:21,599
Come on down
and do what you've got to do... 

384
00:22:21,639 --> 00:22:23,680
The DJs in the clubs,

385
00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:25,959
they played my song all the time

386
00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,360
cos people liked to dance to it.

387
00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:33,199
I knew that it was going
to be a good dance song.

388
00:22:33,239 --> 00:22:34,760
I knew that.

389
00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:36,080
But as far as a hit,

390
00:22:36,120 --> 00:22:37,839
no, I had no idea.

392
00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:50,760
I have here a scarf.
Tell us about it, will you?

393
00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:54,919
Well, this scarf... This scarf!
..tells that my record

394
00:22:54,959 --> 00:22:56,599
is number one in the nation.

395
00:22:56,639 --> 00:22:57,720
How about that?

397
00:23:03,959 --> 00:23:10,519
Black women became stars
with huge LGBTQ followings.

398
00:23:10,559 --> 00:23:16,760
So the black disco diva
was a breakthrough persona.

399
00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:20,120
And this means everything
to black women

400
00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:27,120
because the minute you see yourself
in a raised position, you know,

401
00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:28,559
as a world-class artist

402
00:23:28,599 --> 00:23:31,400
that people would pay a fortune
to buy a ticket,

403
00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:34,279
you could fill up Madison Square
Garden, this kind of thing,

404
00:23:34,319 --> 00:23:36,400
it opens possibilities.

405
00:23:38,199 --> 00:23:42,120
To see Labelle on the
cover of Rolling Stone magazine,

406
00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:46,120
the first black female group
to ever be on the cover,

407
00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:49,720
this was a really heroic moment.

408
00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:52,120
At that time in the '70s,

409
00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:54,120
we broke the glass ceiling
for women.

410
00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:57,559
Women became
very, very, very popular.

411
00:24:07,199 --> 00:24:11,040
In the 1970s, there is an idea
of a sexual revolution

412
00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:12,919
that's afoot, you know,
in the culture.

413
00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:20,599
Whole groups of people
were demanding personal freedom.

414
00:24:22,919 --> 00:24:24,400
We also had the Vietnam War.

415
00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:26,919
And the Vietnam War had been brutal.

416
00:24:26,959 --> 00:24:29,199
And it didn't really end until 1975.

417
00:24:29,239 --> 00:24:32,360
Do a little dance,
make a little love...

418
00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:34,760
The bulletin has just come in
from Saigon.

419
00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:36,440
The war is over.

420
00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:38,040
South Vietnam's new president

421
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:40,599
has announced
an unconditional surrender.

423
00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:44,559
Get down tonight...

424
00:24:44,599 --> 00:24:47,599
And so you had this huge thing
by the mid '70s.

425
00:24:47,639 --> 00:24:49,199
Everyone's back from the war now.

426
00:24:49,239 --> 00:24:51,319
You're not going
to be drafted any more.

427
00:24:51,360 --> 00:24:52,919
And everybody looking for fun

428
00:24:52,959 --> 00:24:57,199
and everybody looking for something
that appealed to them at their age.

429
00:24:57,239 --> 00:25:02,800
What appeal to the baby boomers?
Sex, drugs and rock and roll.

430
00:25:02,839 --> 00:25:05,239
Do a little dance...

431
00:25:05,279 --> 00:25:09,919
People were celebrating life
in the club.

432
00:25:09,959 --> 00:25:12,199
The music talked about,

433
00:25:12,239 --> 00:25:16,839
"We got to love each other.
We got to spread this love."

434
00:25:16,879 --> 00:25:20,160
Get down tonight... 

435
00:25:20,199 --> 00:25:24,680
The genre of disco
during that time period

436
00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:27,919
was so huge
and so successful.

437
00:25:27,959 --> 00:25:30,559
And also, disco music was fun.

438
00:25:34,559 --> 00:25:36,839
You sort of felt the beat
and the pulse

439
00:25:36,879 --> 00:25:38,839
of what the public wanted.

440
00:25:38,879 --> 00:25:42,199
And we made a commitment
that we were going to be in the
disco business.

441
00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:45,160
Get down tonight

442
00:25:45,199 --> 00:25:47,120
Hey
Do a little dance

443
00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:49,680
Make a little love

444
00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:52,239
Get down tonight

445
00:25:52,279 --> 00:25:53,800
Get down tonight...

446
00:25:53,839 --> 00:25:57,639
Neil heard Donna's voice
and he said, "Oh, I like this,"

447
00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:01,319
and proceeded to put out
Love To Love You.

448
00:26:01,360 --> 00:26:06,440
I love to love you, baby

449
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:11,199
I love to love you, baby

450
00:26:11,239 --> 00:26:15,959
I love to love you, baby

451
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:21,160


452
00:26:21,199 --> 00:26:22,919
I...

453
00:26:22,959 --> 00:26:24,879
No-one had heard anything
like that before.

454
00:26:24,919 --> 00:26:26,519
It was really daring.

455
00:26:26,559 --> 00:26:28,919
It was really outrageous
in a lot of ways.

456
00:26:28,959 --> 00:26:30,360
But it was so good.

457
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:32,199
It was so well done.

458
00:26:32,239 --> 00:26:34,760
SHE VOCALIZES

459
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:38,480
I love to love you, baby...

460
00:26:38,519 --> 00:26:41,000
The song revolves around

461
00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:43,639
Donna Summer having sex

462
00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:47,160
or at least pretending to,
very effectively.

463
00:26:48,599 --> 00:26:50,519
Do it to me again and again

464
00:26:50,559 --> 00:26:52,919

such an awful spin

465
00:26:52,959 --> 00:26:57,440
In a spin
In a spin, uh...

466
00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:59,879
Love To Love You, Baby

467
00:26:59,919 --> 00:27:05,360
was an expression
of sexual equality.

468
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:09,319
That song was a way
of giving women permission

469
00:27:09,360 --> 00:27:14,080
to have the same sexual feelings
as a man.

470
00:27:18,919 --> 00:27:22,199
I love to love you, baby...

471
00:27:22,239 --> 00:27:25,400
Donna Summer described herself
as someone who kind of

472
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:28,720
fell into the role of sex diva.

473
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:31,760
She didn't really expect
that Love To Love You, Baby

474
00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:36,919
would be picked up and seen as like
this game-changing song.

475
00:27:40,919 --> 00:27:43,120
The interesting thing is

476
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:45,199
the record was not a success...

477
00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:49,680
..until Neil made it
16-plus minutes.

478
00:27:51,120 --> 00:27:53,680
It was the first LP like that.

479
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:56,400
Now it didn't exist
before Neil did that.

480
00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:58,680
Love to love you, baby

481
00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:02,879
Oh, love to love you, baby... 

482
00:28:02,919 --> 00:28:05,839
It was a trip.
It was almost 17 minutes long.

483
00:28:05,879 --> 00:28:08,639
And even though there weren't a lot
of lyrics to the song,

484
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:10,599
it was emotional.

485
00:28:10,639 --> 00:28:13,120
The production was so important
in it,

486
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:15,800
and no-one had ever done
anything like that before.

487
00:28:15,839 --> 00:28:19,000
I mean, it was, you know,
it was Donna.

488
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:20,360
She was special.

489
00:28:21,559 --> 00:28:23,599
When I played,
like in a really big club,

490
00:28:23,639 --> 00:28:26,080
it was like watch...
It was like ecstasy.

491
00:28:26,120 --> 00:28:28,559
and it was really a sensual,
sexual record.

492
00:28:28,599 --> 00:28:30,680
And so people got
into a different groove.

493
00:28:38,319 --> 00:28:41,400
The song, you know, had been banned
by the BBC

494
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,400
and banned
by some US radio stations as well.

495
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:48,279
It had kind of a tough life.

496
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:53,559
I mean, I have been put down for it.
You know, I have been scorned.

497
00:28:53,599 --> 00:28:55,199
INTERVIEWER: Hmm. Why?

498
00:28:55,239 --> 00:28:58,480
Well, you know, there are certain
people I mean, reverends and things

499
00:28:58,519 --> 00:29:00,839
who have not taken it very lightly.

500
00:29:00,879 --> 00:29:03,760
Oh, the uptight folks.
The Puritans among us.

501
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:06,080
Well, you know,
the funny part of it is,

502
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:07,680
I'm kind of a puritan myself

503
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,480
and that the song
was just the song as such.

504
00:29:10,519 --> 00:29:13,400
And, all of a sudden,
it became kind of a revolution.

505
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:16,040
Did sexuality drive disco?

506
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:20,959
Um, you know, I mean, that's kind
of always been there in music.

508
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:27,559
There were a lot of really, you
know, kind of outrageous covers,

509
00:29:27,599 --> 00:29:30,279
lots of nudity,
lots of female nudity,

510
00:29:30,319 --> 00:29:33,199
and little by little,
some male nudity as well.

511
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:41,199
The jacket for Theo Vaness -
Bad, Bad Boy

512
00:29:41,239 --> 00:29:45,519
has a guy in the foreground
and a guy in the background,

513
00:29:45,559 --> 00:29:50,519
and he's clearly looking at him
with sexual interest.

514
00:29:50,559 --> 00:29:53,919
A straight person would not...
You know, they would flip through it

515
00:29:53,959 --> 00:29:55,360
and it wouldn't faze them.

516
00:29:55,400 --> 00:30:01,839
A gay person would see it and go,
"Whoa, this is about us!"

517
00:30:04,519 --> 00:30:09,879
In the '70s, we were desperate
to see signs of our own existence

518
00:30:09,919 --> 00:30:11,480
in popular culture.

519
00:30:11,519 --> 00:30:16,480
And so we would look at records
like these as affirmations

520
00:30:16,519 --> 00:30:19,120
of who we are, of our existence.

521
00:30:20,839 --> 00:30:23,959
Gay is obviously a lot more visible
now than it used to be

522
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:29,120
what with gay candidates, magazines,
social and political organisations.

523
00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:31,040
The rest of the world is having
to notice

524
00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:32,839
what it used to try to ignore,

525
00:30:32,879 --> 00:30:36,400
is finding out that homosexuals no
longer meekly melt away

526
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:39,440
under the blast of scorn,
ridicule or hatred.

527
00:30:41,199 --> 00:30:47,239
Disco will always be entwined
with the Gay Pride movement.

528
00:30:47,279 --> 00:30:50,680
This is what being gay is all about,

529
00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:58,279
is being free, free from the chains
that have bound us forever.

530
00:31:00,319 --> 00:31:03,239
NEWSREADER: If there is one American
city in which the gay rights issue,

531
00:31:03,279 --> 00:31:07,519
if not embraced, is at least
tolerated, it is San Francisco.

532
00:31:07,559 --> 00:31:10,680
Gays reportedly make up 12 percent
of the population

533
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:13,959
and possibly 30 percent of the
voters who go to the polls.

534
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:15,480
Last January, the city elected

535
00:31:15,519 --> 00:31:18,440
its first open homosexual
to public office -

536
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:20,199
a fellow named Harvey Milk -

537
00:31:20,239 --> 00:31:22,160
to the Board of Supervisors.

538
00:31:22,199 --> 00:31:24,319
Harvey Milk was the first
out politician

539
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:27,959
that came from
the gay movement itself.

540
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:32,559
He represented gay people in a way
that hadn't been done before.

541
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:38,599
Just like Harvey Milk mirrored
an element of San Francisco,

542
00:31:38,639 --> 00:31:40,000
so did Sylvester.

543
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:44,160
Sylvester first presented himself

544
00:31:44,199 --> 00:31:48,120
as sort of really traditional blues
and jazz,

545
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:52,040
glam rock and soul all at once.

546
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:54,919
And there was no place for it.

547
00:31:54,959 --> 00:31:58,120
But when disco came around,
there was an audience

548
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:00,319
for all these things

549
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:03,239
that could come together
in no other genre.

550
00:32:03,279 --> 00:32:08,239
Disco allowed Sylvester
to be churchy and queer

551
00:32:08,279 --> 00:32:09,599
at the same time.

552
00:32:11,199 --> 00:32:13,800
The man you're about to hear
is one of the most theatrical

553
00:32:13,839 --> 00:32:16,040
and flamboyant performers
on the disco scene.

554
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:19,800
Here is that bizarre star,
the sensational Sylvester.

555
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:25,400
You mean I've been dancin'
on the floor, darlin'

556
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:29,120
And I feel like I need
some more and I... 

557
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:33,720
Sylvester was out and proud
and put it in your face.

558
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:37,760
There was a lot of things
that were gay and you didn't know.

559
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:39,720
Sylvester was almost drag.

560
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:41,199
He was like, "This is who I am.

561
00:32:41,239 --> 00:32:43,519
"You like me, you don't like me,
I don't care.

562
00:32:43,559 --> 00:32:46,279
"You accept me or you
don't accept me, I don't care."

563
00:32:46,319 --> 00:32:48,599
He was unapologetic for being
who he was,

564
00:32:48,639 --> 00:32:50,680
which is wonderful.

565
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:57,319
You make me feel mighty real... 

566
00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:02,120
Sylvester is the definition
of fearlessness.

567
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:05,680
I don't know if you've ever met
someone that when you meet them,

568
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:10,120
they make you feel
your most authentic.

569
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:14,160
And so I think that's what
that...that feels like for me.

570
00:33:14,199 --> 00:33:17,160
You make me feel

571
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:20,519
Mighty real...

572
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:25,400
I remember when Mighty Real
was released,

573
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:26,919
and it was major!

574
00:33:26,959 --> 00:33:29,000
Major, major, major.

575
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:31,599
..feel mighty real...

576
00:33:31,639 --> 00:33:34,639
It's a song that never gets old.
It's never going to get old.

577
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:36,639
It's one of the best songs
ever recorded.

578
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:39,360
You could always put it on
at any party.

579
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:42,959
You could be in a heavy room
and, like, that song can come on

580
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,160
and...and just change everything.

581
00:33:45,199 --> 00:33:47,919
You make me feel

582
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:52,040
Mighty real... 

583
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:53,720
It's that voice!

584
00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:57,800
That kind of like androgyny
with vocals is really fun.

585
00:33:57,839 --> 00:34:02,000
And I think that Sylvester
was one of the pioneers of that.

586
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:05,680
You had a memorable event
in San Francisco. Yes.

587
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:06,959
What happened?

588
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:10,000
We were the first disco act
or popular music act

589
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:13,040
to ever perform in
the San Francisco Opera House

590
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:14,559
with the San Francisco Symphony.

591
00:34:14,599 --> 00:34:16,800
With the symphony?! Yes.

592
00:34:16,839 --> 00:34:18,440
The first time... Right!

593
00:34:20,879 --> 00:34:23,360
The Living Proof album by Sylvester,

594
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:26,360
it's a live recording
at the San Francisco Opera House.

595
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:29,440
And from what I understand
about this night, I feel like

596
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:34,760
this could have been
the peak moment of disco.

597
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:37,720
They blew the roof off of the joint.

598
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:39,559
Come on in here, everybody.

599
00:34:39,599 --> 00:34:43,199
VOCALISING

600
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:49,959
The symphony players
are really straight.

601
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:51,480
Straight? Oh. I see.

602
00:34:51,519 --> 00:34:54,279
Well, I mean, you know...

603
00:34:54,319 --> 00:34:56,720
You know how
classical musicians are.

604
00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:59,440
So what I did to make them
loosen up a little bit

605
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:00,639
just before the curtain,

606
00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:02,800
I said this just before
the curtain went up.

607
00:35:02,839 --> 00:35:04,239
And I ran around backstage

608
00:35:04,279 --> 00:35:06,559
and I threw pounds of glitter
all on their hair,

609
00:35:06,599 --> 00:35:08,519
all on their instruments,
all over everything.

610
00:35:08,559 --> 00:35:10,279
They must've loved that.
They did love it.

611
00:35:10,319 --> 00:35:12,480
They played great. Really?
Yeah.

612
00:35:12,519 --> 00:35:14,120
Sylvester was not...

613
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:17,319
..you know, seeking to be political.

614
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:18,599
The more success he had,

615
00:35:18,639 --> 00:35:22,120
the more he was able to express
himself as to who he was.

616
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:25,160
And that might be seen
as being political.

617
00:35:27,559 --> 00:35:29,279
There's a really great photo

618
00:35:29,319 --> 00:35:32,760
of Harvey Milk
and Sylvester together.

619
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:36,120
It was for Harvey Milk's
birthday party.

620
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:37,480
I was with Sylvester.

621
00:35:37,519 --> 00:35:39,879
It was a grand party, too.

622
00:35:39,919 --> 00:35:42,800
Harvey Milk knew how to party.
And Sylvester sang.

623
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:47,720
It's fascinating that there
were these two people

624
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:49,879
that happened at the same time

625
00:35:49,919 --> 00:35:53,199
to really make a difference

626
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:56,639
and politicise the ordinary stuff.

627
00:35:57,919 --> 00:36:00,480
Both Harvey Milk and Sylvester
were doing that.

628
00:36:06,720 --> 00:36:09,480
In the late '70s,
the outsider became the insider.

629
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:14,720
The trans women would show up
at the Manhattan discos.

630
00:36:16,959 --> 00:36:20,360
They weren't just welcomed,
they were encouraged.

631
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:22,919
You know, it was like
it was their home.

632
00:36:24,919 --> 00:36:27,839
People wanted to mix
with that culture,

633
00:36:27,879 --> 00:36:30,519
that marginalised,
very marginalised culture,

634
00:36:30,559 --> 00:36:31,959
especially at that time.

635
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:33,639
I was there with my camera.

636
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:36,319
I stumbled into this world.

637
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:39,599
Oooh

638
00:36:39,639 --> 00:36:43,720
It's so good, it's so good,
it's so good, it's so good

639
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:46,040
It's so good

640
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:53,879
Ohh... 

641
00:36:53,919 --> 00:36:56,760
NEWSREADER: This is the scene
outside a New York disco

642
00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:58,599
called Studio 54.

643
00:36:58,639 --> 00:37:01,480
This is the place that's in
with the disco crowd.

644
00:37:01,519 --> 00:37:04,519
One of the owners, Steve Rubell,
works the door.

645
00:37:04,559 --> 00:37:06,440
He is choosy about who gets in

646
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:08,919
and that adds to the mystique.

647
00:37:08,959 --> 00:37:13,599
I feel love, I feel love,
I feel love, I feel love

648
00:37:13,639 --> 00:37:14,879
I feel... 

649
00:37:14,919 --> 00:37:18,559
Steve Rubell became
a really close friend of mine.

650
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:24,879
He wanted to open a club
that was beyond any other club

651
00:37:24,919 --> 00:37:27,239
that was open till that time.

652
00:37:27,279 --> 00:37:31,800
And that was his inspiration.

653
00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:36,160
STEVE RUBELL: We try and make this
like a play.

654
00:37:36,199 --> 00:37:38,199
And we want to get the right cast
of characters

655
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:40,760
so that everybody has a good time,

656
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:42,800
so that not one group is dominant.

657
00:37:42,839 --> 00:37:45,279
There's nothing more boring
than a room full of celebrities

658
00:37:45,319 --> 00:37:46,639
or a room full of anything.

659
00:37:50,199 --> 00:37:54,120
They would look
and they would say, "You."

660
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:56,080
Two out there, please,

661
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:57,440
And they would say, "Me?"

662
00:37:57,480 --> 00:37:59,040
"Yeah. Come on in. Come on in."

663
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:01,559
They would pick
who they wanted to come in.

664
00:38:01,599 --> 00:38:03,680
It would be so crowded outside.

665
00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:07,080
Two out there, please.
On the left.

666
00:38:08,639 --> 00:38:11,839
People went to Studio 54 to be seen,

667
00:38:11,879 --> 00:38:14,959
and there were people
who went to Studio 54 to party.

668
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:16,319
I went there to party.

669
00:38:19,319 --> 00:38:22,160
I created it as a playground

670
00:38:22,199 --> 00:38:24,239
so people would go.

671
00:38:24,279 --> 00:38:27,800
Sex, drugs, disco,
whatever you need.

672
00:38:27,839 --> 00:38:30,400
A one-night stand
is better than nothing.

673
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:34,760
But you know something to enjoy life
and to make it more creative.

674
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:38,319
I feel love... 

675
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:40,400
Glamour up your ass.

676
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:44,839
It just was so ostentatious.

677
00:38:46,279 --> 00:38:50,239
Beyond...
Ostentatious beyond belief.

678
00:38:50,279 --> 00:38:54,000
I feel love... 

679
00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:56,279
There was never anything like it.

680
00:38:56,319 --> 00:38:58,599
And there will never be
anything again like it.

681
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:04,160
Oooooh

682
00:39:04,199 --> 00:39:06,360
I'm in love, I'm in love... 

683
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:09,760
Andy Warhol was a...
SHE CHUCKLES

684
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:11,559
..fixture.

685
00:39:11,599 --> 00:39:13,879
He didn't want to miss out
on anything.

686
00:39:13,919 --> 00:39:16,000
He would go to the opening
of an envelope

687
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:18,120
because he was scared
of missing out.

688
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:19,639
Oooh... 

689
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:24,959
I feel love, I feel love, I feel
love, I feel love, I feel love...

690
00:39:25,279 --> 00:39:29,360
You know, they only invested
300,000 dollars to do the Studio

691
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:32,680
and the first year they were making
3 million dollars.

692
00:39:32,720 --> 00:39:34,879
OK? In those years.

693
00:39:34,919 --> 00:39:37,680
Steve liked to talk a lot
to the press every day.

694
00:39:37,720 --> 00:39:40,480
He's saying, "We are making
more money than the mafia."

695
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:53,360
People all over the country
were opening up discos.

696
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:55,319
It was a phenomenon, clearly.

697
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:59,959
There was a real focus
on opening bigger clubs,

698
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:03,959
looking for a larger audience
that was clearly out there.

699
00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:08,879
There was this powder keg
chain reaction that happened

700
00:40:08,919 --> 00:40:14,279
that made it suddenly totally
take over the airwaves

701
00:40:14,319 --> 00:40:16,800
and mass media

702
00:40:16,839 --> 00:40:19,519
and everything else all at once.

703
00:40:23,279 --> 00:40:25,080
And then late in 1977

704
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:28,519
was when Saturday Night Fever
literally exploded.

705
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:38,480
Just like crazy what happened
with that record.

706
00:40:38,519 --> 00:40:42,839
And with... I mean, it just set
the world on fire.

707
00:40:42,879 --> 00:40:44,639
 ..by the way I use my walk

708
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:46,760
I'm a woman's man,
no time to talk

709
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:50,000
Music loud and women warm,
I've been kicked around

710
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:51,319
Since I was born

711
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:53,720
And now it's all right, it's OK

712
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:56,160
And you may look the other way

713
00:40:56,199 --> 00:40:58,199
 We can try to understand

714
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:00,879
The New York Times'
effect on man... 

715
00:41:00,919 --> 00:41:07,000
Saturday Night Fever was this
amazing game-changing film.

716
00:41:07,199 --> 00:41:10,959
I don't think the film producers
even realised the kind of impact

717
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:12,360
that it was going to have.

718
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:14,040
And its soundtrack

719
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:17,400
is one of the best selling
soundtracks of all time,

720
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:20,160
and I think it wouldn't have made
the kind of impact

721
00:41:20,199 --> 00:41:23,440
that it would have
without the soundtrack itself.

722
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:25,599
..alive

723
00:41:25,639 --> 00:41:27,559
Oh when you walk... 

724
00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:31,080
The Bee Gees weren't a disco band.

725
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:33,839
Along with their producers and some
of their writers,

726
00:41:33,879 --> 00:41:36,760
they found a formula,
that was brilliant,

727
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:39,839
to do as a soundtrack for a movie

728
00:41:39,879 --> 00:41:42,519
that was basically
exploitation of disco.

729
00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:48,800
The Bee Gees album made hundreds
of millions of dollars.

730
00:41:48,839 --> 00:41:51,519
Whether you're a brother
or whether you're a mother

731
00:41:51,559 --> 00:41:53,879
You're stayin' alive,
stayin' alive

732
00:41:53,919 --> 00:41:57,279
Feel the city breakin'
and everybody shakin'... 

733
00:41:57,319 --> 00:42:02,760
Saturday Night Fever made me feel
like all our work was being noticed.

734
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:06,279
I loved it. I loved the music.
I loved everything about it.

735
00:42:06,319 --> 00:42:09,199
Stayin' alive... 

736
00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:12,239
Bee Gees were... They were one
of my favourite groups.

737
00:42:12,279 --> 00:42:14,120
..alive... 

738
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:16,319
Yeah. It changed a lot.
It changed a lot.

739
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:19,879
It broadened the spectrum of music.

740
00:42:19,919 --> 00:42:23,519
A lot of people that weren't
into the disco-type thing

741
00:42:23,559 --> 00:42:25,160
kind of embraced that.

742
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:30,000
Saturday Night Fever gave disco
a story

743
00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:33,760
where the white straight guy
is at the centre of it.

744
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:35,519
It put a face on it.

745
00:42:35,559 --> 00:42:39,480
Tony is a very everyman kind of guy

746
00:42:39,519 --> 00:42:42,199
that the average white guy
could relate to.

747
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:45,400
You know, it was like Rocky, right?

748
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:51,319
It's the everyman
who's kind of thuggish but debonair.

749
00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:54,760
He's polished, he's graceful

750
00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:58,879
and he's not completely masculine.

751
00:42:58,919 --> 00:43:01,639
He embraces his femininity, too.

752
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:05,319
If he didn't, then, you know,

753
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:07,760
he'd be laughed off the dance
floor.

754
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:10,720
All right!

755
00:43:13,879 --> 00:43:17,040
I remember him being
just like a real asshole

756
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:21,319
and just super macho and, you know,
not very nice to women.

757
00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:25,440
It was upsetting that Saturday Night
Fever

758
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:29,519
didn't represent the disco
that I knew and loved,

759
00:43:29,559 --> 00:43:32,519
but it represented
something very particular.

760
00:43:32,559 --> 00:43:35,639
You should be dancin'... 

761
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:39,839
It made dance culture
and the involvement in dance

762
00:43:39,879 --> 00:43:43,279
really understandable to a lot
of people who probably didn't quite

763
00:43:43,319 --> 00:43:47,160
understand why their kids
were going out dancing all the time.

764
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:54,319
It's interesting after this,
the ways that the lit up floor

765
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:56,319
and his dance moves,

766
00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:58,919
his white suits
that Tony was wearing

767
00:43:58,959 --> 00:44:00,319
with a little mirrored ball,

768
00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:01,720
the slicked back hair,

769
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:04,080
and then the lady on your arm
who is kind of wearing

770
00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:06,080
some kind of flouncy,
fluttery skirt.

771
00:44:07,839 --> 00:44:09,519
It's what became disco.

772
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:15,599
A lot of people
had to take dance lessons.

773
00:44:15,639 --> 00:44:17,879
Three, four, five.

774
00:44:17,919 --> 00:44:22,879
They couldn't just get on the floor
and master it like, you know,

775
00:44:22,919 --> 00:44:27,279
John Travolta. You don't just show
up on the floor and do that.

776
00:44:27,319 --> 00:44:29,160
You've got to practise.

777
00:44:29,199 --> 00:44:32,879
..two, three, four.
Repeat, two, three, four.

778
00:44:32,919 --> 00:44:36,639
One, two, three, four.
Repeat, two, three, four.

779
00:44:36,680 --> 00:44:38,400
Repeat, two, three, four.

780
00:44:46,319 --> 00:44:51,080
When you look at the gross
it took in the film theatres,

781
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:53,480
it was in the
hundreds of millions of dollars.

782
00:44:53,519 --> 00:44:56,559
And that got the
bandwagon really going.

783
00:44:56,599 --> 00:44:58,720
Everyone said,
"Wow, that's a gold mine there."

784
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:05,800
Saturday Night Fever
just like metastasized

785
00:45:05,839 --> 00:45:08,199
into this cultural thing.

786
00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:14,279
Disco had become what felt to us
like a global craze.

787
00:45:14,319 --> 00:45:16,199
Disco was on everybody's lips.

788
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:18,360
Everybody wanted to know
about disco,

789
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:20,239
and they wanted to be part of it.

790
00:45:22,639 --> 00:45:26,879
Every other artist
wanted to be a disco artist.

791
00:45:26,919 --> 00:45:29,680
Anybody who wanted to revive
their career

792
00:45:29,720 --> 00:45:31,480
or to have a hit - disco.

793
00:45:37,519 --> 00:45:39,839
NEWSREADER: Rock stars don't have
to be wild about disco

794
00:45:39,879 --> 00:45:41,519
to take advantage of its popularity.

795
00:45:41,559 --> 00:45:44,839
Rod Stewart's biggest-selling record
ever is the disco-flavoured

796
00:45:44,879 --> 00:45:46,400
Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?

797
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:47,599
..need me

798
00:45:47,639 --> 00:45:49,319
Just reach out and touch me

799
00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:53,040
Come on, sugar, tell me so
Tell me so... 

800
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:56,360
A lot of other artists,
from Frank Sinatra to Dolly Parton

801
00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:57,519
to the Rolling Stones,

802
00:45:57,559 --> 00:45:59,680
have also swung into the disco beat.

803
00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:02,599
They all dabbled.

804
00:46:02,639 --> 00:46:06,080
But one song here and there
didn't change who they really were.

805
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:08,319
It was like,
"You have to make this now."

806
00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:11,040
Record companies
dictated what you really did.

807
00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:12,559
I think with any social movements,

808
00:46:12,599 --> 00:46:15,279
you're going to have
two things coexisting.

809
00:46:15,319 --> 00:46:17,800
There was not one or the other.
There were both.

810
00:46:17,839 --> 00:46:21,599
Music with integrity was still
being played at the same time

811
00:46:21,639 --> 00:46:24,440
as you had the commercial things
that were being played on the radio.

812
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:29,120
Sending love vibrations
straight to you

813
00:46:32,199 --> 00:46:35,279
Sending love vibrations... 

814
00:46:35,319 --> 00:46:37,959
Polydor announced
that they were releasing

815
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:42,040
a new single called Substitute.

816
00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:46,040
All the DJs, we all got
a 12-inch saying Substitute

817
00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:48,519
backed with, on the B-side,
I Will Survive.

818
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:54,400
I don't even think that most
DJs realised that that song

819
00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:56,760
was on the B-side of Substitute.

820
00:46:56,800 --> 00:46:59,959
Gloria knew that Substitute

821
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:02,319
was not going to be played
in discos.

822
00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:05,000
It was the B-side
that was important.

823
00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:10,279
So Gloria took the record herself
to the hottest DJ in New York -

824
00:47:10,319 --> 00:47:13,199
Studio 54's Richie Kaczor -

825
00:47:13,239 --> 00:47:16,120
and made sure he played the B-side.

826
00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:18,800
I heard Richie play this
song and, you know,

827
00:47:18,839 --> 00:47:21,120
at first I was afraid
and I was petrified.

828
00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:24,839
At first I was afraid,
I was petrified

829
00:47:24,879 --> 00:47:28,239
Kept thinking I could never live
without you by my side... 

830
00:47:28,279 --> 00:47:30,400
And every time that song
would come on,

831
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:33,040
the whole crowd would just go nuts.

832
00:47:33,080 --> 00:47:35,160
I grew strong

833
00:47:35,199 --> 00:47:37,120
And I learned how to get along

834
00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:41,120
And so you're back
from outer space

835
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:42,919
I just walked in to find you here

836
00:47:42,959 --> 00:47:45,160
 With that look upon your face

837
00:47:45,199 --> 00:47:47,519
I should have changed
that stupid lock

838
00:47:47,559 --> 00:47:49,800
I should have made you
leave your key

839
00:47:49,839 --> 00:47:51,559
If I'd have know
for just one second

840
00:47:51,599 --> 00:47:53,480
You'd be back to bother me

841
00:47:53,519 --> 00:47:55,680
Oh, now go... 

842
00:47:55,720 --> 00:47:57,360
Everyone fell in love,

843
00:47:57,400 --> 00:48:03,120
because regardless if you were
gay, heterosexual, whatever,

844
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:04,599
male, female,

845
00:48:04,639 --> 00:48:08,239
that song provided
some...some hope.

846
00:48:08,279 --> 00:48:11,720
Think I'd lay down and die?
Oh, no, not I... 

847
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:18,360
It speaks to every living being,
to their soul.

848
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:23,800
It gives them a feeling
of strength in dark times.

849
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:28,360
I will survive
Hey, hey

850
00:48:35,800 --> 00:48:38,400
That happened at the exact point

851
00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:42,599
when disco was starting to become
overexposed

852
00:48:42,639 --> 00:48:45,000
as a cultural phenomenon.

853
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:48,279
I never can say goodbye, boy

854
00:48:48,319 --> 00:48:51,080
Oh, no, no... 

855
00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:53,559
NEWSREADER: Since 1975,
when Gloria Gaynor recorded

856
00:48:53,599 --> 00:48:55,199
Never Can Say Goodbye,

857
00:48:55,239 --> 00:48:57,760
the first record specifically
mixed for discotheques,

858
00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:00,319
millions of people
have been dancing to the sound.

859
00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:03,760
The movie Saturday Night Fever
helped boost disco's popularity,

860
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:05,680
and now radio stations across
the country

861
00:49:05,720 --> 00:49:08,360
have started programming
all-disco formats.

862
00:49:09,879 --> 00:49:13,360
It was wonderful
because it kept me busy.

863
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:16,199
Did a 30-minute show
and got paid big money.

864
00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:19,080
And I could do three in one night.

865
00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:21,959
I would leave there, get in a limo,
go to another club,

866
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:25,000
do another 30 minutes,
get in a limo, go to another club,

867
00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:26,239
do another 30 minutes,

868
00:49:26,279 --> 00:49:29,120
then go home and go to bed
and make myself 30,000 dollars.

870
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:36,000
So it was like a blessing.

871
00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:37,800
I said, "Man, I love this."

873
00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:42,279
Donna Summer, she made a fortune.

874
00:49:42,319 --> 00:49:45,639
I think one year she made 26
million dollars.

875
00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:49,239
She made a lot of money
from touring, from Vegas,

876
00:49:49,279 --> 00:49:53,199
from publishing of what she wrote.

877
00:49:53,239 --> 00:49:55,720
Everything started changing
so quickly

878
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:59,360
because obviously people
don't want to miss the chance

879
00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:01,919
to make a buck on, you know,

880
00:50:01,959 --> 00:50:05,720
riding on the coat-tails
of a winning trend.

881
00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:08,959
If we have what the discos take in

882
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:11,360
and what they generate
with the records,

883
00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:15,319
we are talking about an estimated
four billion, that's with a B,

884
00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:17,160
4 billion dollars a year.

885
00:50:17,199 --> 00:50:19,239
When disco really exploded,

886
00:50:19,279 --> 00:50:23,959
it becomes less about what the
movement originally was,

887
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:29,360
which was people who loved music
getting together

888
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:33,879
to dance to it and have a sort
of ecstatic experience.

889
00:50:33,919 --> 00:50:37,839
And then it became a little less
about the music

890
00:50:37,879 --> 00:50:39,919
and more about the money.

891
00:50:39,959 --> 00:50:42,639
It was too much, and you knew that
eventually

892
00:50:42,680 --> 00:50:45,080
the bubble was going to burst
on this.

893
00:50:45,120 --> 00:50:47,639
So let's dance, let's... 

894
00:50:47,680 --> 00:50:51,120
Disco, in part, was a victim
of its own success.

895
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:54,199
Disco got bloated.
It also got rich.

896
00:50:54,239 --> 00:50:56,160
Let's dance... 

897
00:50:56,199 --> 00:50:59,199
The racism, the homophobia
had been brewing for some time.

898
00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:04,000
That was personal,
but you can't stop creativity.

899
00:51:04,040 --> 00:51:05,919
 Let's dance for... 

900
00:51:05,959 --> 00:51:07,319
Yeah, you got rid of the disco.

901
00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:09,319
Now wait till you see
what's coming next.

903
00:51:10,720 --> 00:51:14,839
 ..romance tonight

904
00:51:14,879 --> 00:51:18,000
Oh, how I need you

905
00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:21,839
Right here beside me

906
00:51:21,879 --> 00:51:24,239
 To guide me

907
00:51:24,279 --> 00:51:27,040
Hold me, scold me

908
00:51:27,080 --> 00:51:31,199
 Cos when I'm bad I'm so, so bad

909
00:51:31,239 --> 00:51:34,480
So let's dance
the last dance...