I was born in New York, and grew up there during the 1970s and 1980s. Even as the disco era came to a close, Studio 54 still pumped out the jams, hosting a who’s who of cultural icons along with hushed whispers of bacchanalia. A city that suffered in the ‘70s began to see daylight in the ‘80s.

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