num_pages: 432
description: Studio 54 was the epicenter of disco culture and pre-AIDS debauchery. Now, journalist and nightworld denizen Anthony Haden-Guest takes us behind the velvet rope that separated the celebrities from the wanna-bes, into an all-night world of revelry, sensation, and decadence.Going beyond the endless partying with Liza, Bianca, Halston, Andy, and Mick, Haden-Guest probes the seamy underside of Studio 54: the drugs, the deaths, and the corruption that eventually shuttered the club. It is the story of Studio 54's flamboyant owners, Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager, who achieved early success beyond their wildest imaginings, came within a hair's breadth of great power, and then crashed and burned.
language: English
title: The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, and the Culture of the Night
titlecomplete: The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, and the Culture of the Night
genres: New York, Music, Historical, History, American History, Pop Culture, Memoir, Nonfiction, Cultural Studies, Anthropology
ratings_count: 396
publisher: Harper Perennial