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Estimated 4 billion, with a "b," $4 billion a year. >> i remember really being upset about this word disco. it was r&b music to me. i felt like they stripped it and gave it a new name and weren't giving credit where i think the credit was supposed to go. >> do it again, second half of the course, but bring that sound in. that's great. yeah. okay. one, two, three, four. ♪ tragedy >> the beegees always liked r & b, they always liked soul. i always saw them as a pop band but that always had r&b leanings. >> the bee gees did what pop stars do. they really got the zeitgeist of what was going on. ...

>> it was kind of a diss at studio 54 for rejecting them. the part where they say freak out actually began as something else. ♪ freak out >> it went from something off to freak off to being freak out. ♪ just come on down to the 54 find your spot out on the floor ♪ ♪ oh freak out ♪ le freak c'est chic ♪ freak out >> that's probably the best thing that came out of studio 54 was that song. >> disco was a revolutionary force. funk marries disco and it leads to hip-hop. ♪ >> it's 1979, i heard chic's "good times" come on. i just kept hearing someone talk over the song. ♪ i said a hi...

>> i have been to goat ropings and space shots. i've been in a lot of strange places and seen a lot of strange things. but nothing stranger than studio 54 at the height of its popularity in the '70s. ♪ >> it's where you come when you want to escape. it's really escapism. >> in the front door of that spot was insane. i sometimes would just walk by to watch the people not get in because that was fun too. >> oh, you are not shaved. there's no way yous is getting in. it doesn't matter, you're not shaven. listen, just go home. >> you had to be selected. you had to be chosen to get in. >> we can't...

Suspicious about what was going on here and just like gordon sondland writes this lawyerly tweet, call me. let's not put this in writing. what bill taylor is doing is putting it in writing, trying very much to make sure that his concerns are reflected on paper so that for a time such as this, when we are now looking at those messages, and seeing clearly that there were people who were raising those concerns at the time, in the moment, and believe that there was something fishy going on. >> david gregory who joins us from studio 54, what are you looking for this morning in the testimony? >> wel...

That's berkeley ball. check out these kittens. a kitten disco ball under the strobe lights. it's like saturday night fever with fleas. saturday night fleabur they love every minute of it. they were doing so many drugs in the bathroom. that's studio 54. all right. enough of that. >> [cheers and applause] [laughter] she has a leg brace, by the way. she challenged a tsa agent to do ten push-ups. she repelled from helicopters to