Hannah Maguire

Which is just, like, a peak insult.

It's peak Andy Warhol as well.

Like, there's a really good... I think it's a three-part series called The Warhol Diaries, because his diaries were released sometime in the last ten years.

And he... I mean, such a fascinating person, but just never...

because there was so much homophobia at the time, never, ever, ever, ever talked about sex at all.

There's so many interviews with him where he's just like, why would I bother?

When actually, you know, he's in love with like his long-term boyfriend and it's all this like hidden life.

It's really, really interesting.

And he took a lot of the photos at Studio 54 as well.

Most famously, a 77-year-old retired lawyer who would tear up the dance floor multiple nights a week, only stopping for cocaine and loo breaks.

And she was affectionately dubbed Disco Sally.

She discovered disco after her husband died and it gave her a totally new lease of life.

And Disco Sally drew in an audience all of her own.

people were just as desperate to catch a glimpse of Disco Sally as they were Liza Minnelli.

People were so desperate to get into Studio 54, they would climb the building next door and abseil into the courtyard.

One black tie-clad man died in the air vent trying to wiggle his way in.

People were even selling maps showing how to make it into the club through the tunnels stemming from the subway system.

Studio 54 was a phenomenon that is hard to quantify.

And like all legends that last forever, it came at exactly the right time.

Ian Schrager had learned in the hotel world, to make magic, you have to create a visceral experience and bend the rules.