Hannah Maguire

Ian Schrager's really interesting.

His dad is a big-time gangster that people call Max the Jew.

And he, in the documentary, is obviously, if your dad is a gangster, you're going to be quite guarded about it.

Doesn't really talk about it.

The only time he brings up his dad is when he says, I ratted on other club owners and that's why I got out.

And my dad would have been so angry because you do your time like a man.

And I think if his dad hadn't have been dead, I don't think he would have done it.

But so it's a very interesting, he, apart from, apart from the enormous amount of criminal activity he did skimming all of this money, he isn't in anywhere near sort of mafia style stuff like his dad was.

And I think he felt very strongly about not doing that.

But obviously when you grow up in that environment, I think it definitely added to his sort of like steeliness.

Anyway, they were out, but they'd lost the studio and the building became a gig venue, which hosted the early days of Madonna, Duran Duran, the Culture Club and Wham, but it was just not the same.

Ian and Steve got right back to it, though, and they opened another club, which they called the Palladium.

And that wasn't the same either.

And they make a really good point is that like in the documentary, when they get out of prison, they don't have to go back to it because now they've got something to lose.

Going back after something like Studio 54 is really brave to like go back to the same business.

No, disco was dead.

They were only inside for a few months, but when they got out, nobody was looking for the opulence of Studio 54 in the midst of the worst economic slump since the Great Depression.

And that's why people hated them so much as well, because everything's wonderful in Studio 54, it's all over the news, and the mines are getting shut and everyone's losing their jobs everywhere else in the country.

So that's why nobody was that bothered when they went down.

And also they didn't get in.