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The disco crowd. >> i have been to goat ropings and space shots, 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 is really escapism. >> in the front door of that spot was insane. i sometimes would walk by to watch the people not get in. because that was fun too. >> oh, you are not shaved. no way you can get in. it doesn't matter if you are not shaved. just go home. >> you had to be selected. you had to be chosen to get in. >> we can't let in ever...

The new batch craze ♪ ♪ listen to us i'm sure you will be amazed ♪ >> it was kind of a dis for the studio 54 who reject them. the part where they say "freak out" actually began as something out. ♪ freak out >> it went from something off to freak off to being freak out. ♪ just come on down to the 54 ♪ out on the floor ♪ oh freak out ♪ so chic ♪ freak out >> probably the best thing that ever came out of studio 54 was that song. >> disco was a revolutionary force. funk marries disco and it leads

When i say staples, i mean staples. >> it's okay, mister. i was led astray. >> oh, shut up, john. they're waiting for you in the studio. >> i'm dying to do a bit of work. >> oh, listen to the teacher's pet. >> save the class, eh? >> oh, lay off. >> get a move on. they're waiting for you. ♪ it's been a hard day's night >> "hard day's night" sort of perfectly encapsulated beatlemania. it is the most perfect representation of 1964 beatles. ♪ i should be sleeping >> brian epstein said, if the beatles were going to go, they were going to go big. and they went big. >> the fact that the beatles w...

Any great art movement. the greatest practitioners of it pushed one another to be better. >> the mic on the piano is quite low. >> in the studio, the beatles' natural creativity was sort of brimming over, and george martin was a brilliant collaborator and champion of that. >> run back the tape, please, would you? >> you can slow down or speed up the tape. you can put in backwards stuff. you can put in electronic sounds that you couldn't possibly reproduce live. >> something happens on air, i couldn't tell you what because we have a special man who sits here and goes like this, and the guitar t...

Nice, nice. ♪ >> in the mid-'60s, you see brian wilson retreating into the studio, and he's concentrating on writing and producing these amazing songs. ♪ i may not always love you, but long as there are stars above you ♪ >> the recording studio had been a rigid place where there were engineers literally in like suits and ties and lab coats. when all of a sudden, there were these crazy young geniuses who reinvented the studio as an instrument to be played with. ♪ god only knows what i'd be without you ♪ >> technology is evolving for how to record, and brian wilson was absolutely on th...