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Be amazed ♪ >> it was a diss to studio 54 for rejecting them. the part where they say "freak out" actually began as something else. ♪ freak out ♪ le freak, c'est chic >> it went from something off to freak off to being freak out. ♪ just come on down to the 54 ♪ find a spot out on the floor ♪ oh, freak out ♪ le freak, c'est chic ♪ freak out >> that's 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 to hip-hop. >> it's 1979, i heard chic's "good times" come on. i kept hearing somebody talk o...

Estimated $4 billion -- that's 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 chorus but bring in the sound. that's great. one, two, three, four. ♪ tragedy >> the bee gees always liked r&b and always liked soul. i always thought they were a pop band that always had r&b leanings. >> the bee gees do what pop stars do. they really got the zeitgeist of what was going on. ♪ ...

The disco crowd. >> 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 walk by to watch the people not get in. because that was fun, too. >> oh, you are not shaved. there's no way you're going to get in. it doesn't matter. if you're not shaven, just go home. >> you had to be selected. you had to be chosen to get in....

So that lawsuit was out. >> we were too happy being together to be that angry. we didn't understand it. and to a degree, we almost didn't care. our heads were in the clouds. we knew our parents were pissed off, but it was almost like, well, that's our parents' thing to do. we were out partying. ♪ friday night >> this was new york in 1980. drugs were different, people were different, sex was different, music was different. we just -- we took advantage of all of those things. >> sex, drugs, rock and roll. ♪ we're the kids in america whoa ♪ >> they were running amok in new york, i'll say. s...

We just -- we just took advantage of all of those things. >> sex, drugs, rock and roll. ♪ we're the kids in america whoa ♪ >> they were running amok in new york, i'll say. studio 54 was cooking. limelight, copacabana. they were hitting them all. >> new york loved us. new york loved us. >> all the newspapers were following the boys around no matter where we went. >> the boys thought they were going to be stars. and actually, they did star in one movie. >> walking down the street, all of a sudden we hear, guys, guys, you're the guys! could you please be in my movie? please be in my movie? â™...