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Welcome back to part three of the story of Studio 54.

Coming up in this episode, we discuss the birth and rise of disco,

and the nightclub runs into the first of many legal issues,

as rumours of tax evasion and money laundering threaten to derail the dream.

Rubel takes pride in the fact that his high school graduating class

named him least likely to succeed.

I talked with Rubel about the admission policy at Studio 54.

You know, it's so accidental how people do and do get in.

You stood by the door and examined it and very critically,

and you saw that people get in truly a random selection of people we

don't have room for everybody and it's a random selection we are careful to keep anybody

we think that might be trouble out in other words we just met we've never had an

incident in here and if I ever had started having incidents inside I wouldn't enjoy

being this business.

Tom, I don't want to patronise you, but I'm going to take you through the history of disco.

Of course, thank you.

But... As you know, I know it all.

Yeah.

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