Studio 54

Studio 54

Address: 254 West 54th Street
City: New York City
Owned  by: Roundabout Theatre Company

-Highly popular discotheque from 1977-1991.

Early Years
-Was originally the Gallo Opera House, built by Fortune Gallo in 1927 for his San Carlo Opera Company.
-In 1937, the Federal Theatre Project leased it for it's productions and changed the name to the Federal Music Theatre.

CBS Studio 52
-In 1943, CBS Radio bought the theatre to use it, renaming it Studio 52. They used this theatre for radio broadcasts.
-From the 1940s-1970s, they used the location for radio broadcasts and TV shows, such as:

1. What's My Line?
2. The $64,000 Question
3. Password
4. To Tell the Truth
5. Beat the Clock
6. The Jack Benny Show
7. I've Got a Secret
8. Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour
9. Captain Kangaroo

-In 1976, CBS moved most of it's broadcasts to the Ed Sullivan Theatre.

Nightclub era

-When CBS began marketing the building in 1976, various interests in art and fashion would show it being turned into a nightclub. 

-In 1977, Studio 54 was transformed into a nightclub by Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager. Took only 6 weeks and $400,000 to transform the once theatre into a hip nightclub

-Rubell and Schrager hired Ron Doud as interior designer and Brian Thompson as lighting designer. Jules Fisher and Paul Marantz, 2 well known Broadway theatrical set designers, helped convert the theatre into a dance floor and created moveable, theatrical sets and lights using the original theatrical fly rails.

-Within a month of it opening, it closed because it was selling liquor without a license. 

The Scene

-Among the many celebs to visit the club, some included:

Michael Jackson

Mick and Bianca Jagger

Rick James

Liza Minelli

Jerry Hall

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Cher

Deborah Harry

Famous celebs included

Diane Keaton

Frank Sinatra

Warren Beatty

Woody Allen

Henry Winkler

-Studio 54 was known for mixing normal people with celebrities.

-Studio 54 closed on February 4, 1980 with a big final party. Among the guests were Sylvester Stallone, Richard Gere, Jack Nicholson, Reggie Jackson, where Diana Ross serenaded the guests

Studio 54 Radio

-On August 15, 2011, Sirius XM Radio launched a 24/7 Disco channel based on the Studio 54 theme.

-On October 18, 2011, Sirius XM Radio held a special "One Night Only" party at the club's original location to promote the new channel. In order to win tickets, callers had to call into the station and share their memorable Studio 54 experiences. For the night, it featured the signature sun and "man on the moon" props, along with shirtless waiters. The event featured many of the original staff

-And also in the crowd were quite a few celebs, such as:

-Cameron Diaz

-Keith Richards

-Kevin Bacon

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Top 10 Winter Songs

According to the Ultimate Classic Rock Facebook page. Here are the Top 10 Winter songs.

L-R: Freddy Mercury(Queen), Alice Cooper, Mick Jagger(The Rolling Stones, still cute at 68!!)

#10
-Cold as Ice: Foreigner
-From Foreigner(1977)

#9
-Sure Got Cold After the Rain Fell: ZZ Top
-From Rio Grande(1972)

#8
-Snowblind: Black Sabbath
-From Vol. 4(1972)

#7
-Hazy Shade of Winter: Simon & Garfunkel
-From Bookends(1968)

#6
-Wintertime Love: The Doors
-From Waiting for the Sun(1968)

#5
-Snow Blind: Ace Frehley
-From Ace Frehley(1978)

#4
-Trapped Under Ice: Metallica
-From Ride the Lightning(1984)

#3
-Raped and Freezin': Alice Cooper
-From Billion Dollar Babies(1973)

#2
-Winter: The Rolling Stones
-From Goats Head Soup(1973)

#1
-A Winter's Tale: Queen
-From Made in Heaven(1995)

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30 Day Movie Challenge, 3-10

Action
Cradle 2 the Grave

Jet Li: Majorly sexy Chinese-born hottie!!!

Horror
Dracula 2000

The sexiest Dracula I've ever seen! Bite me ANYwhere, ANYtime....

Drama
Sleepless in Seattle

Meg Ryan, one of my favorite actresses

Comedy
Monty Python's The Holy Grail

Happy
Freejack. Yeah, I'm sad, I'm predictable, but so what? For some reason, I just can't get over this movie. I love it way too much and I don't think it has anyything to do with Mick Jagger being in it. He's just an overall good actor in general, but I think he actually gets nervous behind the camera. I think he would probably feel more at ease being on stage belting out Brown Sugar, You Got Me Rocking or Rock and a Hard Place than acting. But anyhow, Mick Jagger is really sexy in this movie, [insert little hearts, lmao]



He's a good actor, but seems nervous behind the camera. But he sure is cute when he acts.



Sad
Ghost

Know Whole Script
Across the Universe

He looks like a cross between a young Paul McCartney and a young George Harrison

Director
Don't really have any favorite I guess. I'll watch almost any director, I'm not picky.

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2011: What a Year It's Been...

Wow, am I glad that 2011 is over!!! I think that year was, by far, the worst year I've ever endured!! First thing, for starters, 2011 is the year I lost a parent, my dad, to pneumonia. But I'm glad he's in a better place, not suffering anymore. Also, it seems that I couldn't find a job to save my life, but then again, I'm still looking.

But for positive, cool stuff, 2011 seen Mick Jagger at the 53rd Grammy Awards in LA because, along with Aretha Franklin, both of them were there to receive a Lifetime Acheivement in Music Award, her for R&B, him for rock.

Also in 2011, The Faces were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I found this out one night when we all were eating dinner, my stepdad had the news on and they mentioned something about it, and what got my attention on the news story about it is when someone said "Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones". It seems like in 2011, alot of rock bands got inducted into this famous hall of rock.

Sorry if this post is so short, I meant to do it as the first post on my blog after Christmas break, but I kinda forgot, I blame my horrible memory.

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Rolling Stones Women: Marianne Faithfull

Marianne Faithfull

Name: Marian Evelyn Faithfull
DOB: Dec. 29, 1946
Where: Hampstead, London, England
Occupations: Singer, Songwriter, actress
Genres: rock, pop, jazz, folk, blues
Years Active: 1964-present
Website: http://www.mariannefaithfull.org.uk/

-Award winning English singer, songwriter and actress who has been around for 5 decades.
-Her early work was in pop and rock music in the 1960s, but in the 1970s led into drug abuse. In late 1979, she made an album that put her back on top, Broken English.
-From 1966-1970, she had a very public and high profile relationship with Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger. She also helped to co-write Ssiter Morphine on the Stones' Sticky Fingers album.

Early Life
-Her father, Robert Glynn Faithfull, was a British military officer and professor of psychology, and her mother, Eva von Sacher-Massoch, was originally a baroness from Vienna.
-Her maternal great great uncle was Leopold von Sacher-Massoch, whose erotic novel Venus in Furs, inspired the word masochism.

Music Career/Personal Life
-Her singing career began in 1964. She attended a Rolling Stones concert, where her first major hit, As Tears Go By, was written by Jagger and Richards.
-In 1966, she began a high profile relationship with Mick Jagger. At a house in Redlands, British police found her only to be wearing a fur rug around her naked body.
-She lived on London's Soho streets for 2 years, suffering from heroin addiction and anorexia.

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