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♪ have you heard about the new dance craze ♪ ♪ listen to us i'm sure you'll 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...

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. and 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. yeah. 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 goin...

[ applause ] >> this is the scene outside a new york disco called studio 54. this is the place that's in with 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 ...

>> the great chic, go to studio 54 to get in. and they don't. so they write a song. ♪ have you heard about the knew dance craze ♪ ♪ listen to us i'm sure you'll 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 ...

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. >> we can't let in everybody who wants to come ...