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Age 12 to 21 1970 -1979
Steve Rubell (December 2, 1943 – July 25, 1989) was an American-Jewish entrepreneur and co-owner of the New York disco Studio 54.
In 1974, Rubell teamed up with Schrager to run a chain of steak restaurants, and after spending some time in the NY nightclub scene, the two decided to open a club of their own.
They opened two clubs to start with, one in Boston with John Addison from La Jardin, the other, called The Enchanted Garden, in Queens in 1975. In April 1977, they opened Studio 54 in an old television studio on West 54th Street.
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These are just some of the celebrities that partied at Studio 54 in Manhattan:
Mick and Bianca Jagger, Liza Minnelli, Jerry Hall, Brooke Shields, Janice Dickinson, Debbie Harry, Robin Leach, BillyAmato-Smith, Donald and Ivana Trump, Rick and Kathy Hilton, Warren Beatty, Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Cher, Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Elton John, John Travolta, Jackie Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Björn Borg, Mae West, Farrah Fawcett, Olivia Newton-John, Muhammad Ali, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Rod Stewart, Alice Cooper, Suzanne Somers, Bette Davis, Al Pacino, Zsa Zsa and Eva Gabor, Bette Midler, Dolly Parton, Pelé, Hugh Hefner, Sophia Loren, Gloria Vanderbilt and her 10-year-old son, Anderson Cooper; John F. Kennedy Jr., Princess Grace and Prince Rainier of Monaco, Prince Albert, Eartha Kitt, Vladimir Horowitz, Rev. Sun Myung Moon, Moshe Dayan, Fred Astaire, Christie Brinkley, Grace Jones, Steven Tyler, Diana Ross, Betty Ford, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver; Lillian Carter, then-president Jimmy Carter’s mother. Donna Summer, Gloria Gaynor, The Village People, James Brown, Chuck Berry, The Ritchie Family, Rick James, Stephanie Mills….
These were the owners
Steve Rubell (Left in Photo) & Ian Schrager rent space at 254 West 54th Street it was a vacant CBS Television Studio. The club opened in 1977 and grossed an estimated 7 million after just one year of operation.
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JANUARY 01, 1978: Michael Jackson and Tatum O’ Neal dance at a party held inside a bank in celebration of The Jackson’s aka Jackson 5 gold records in Los Angeles, California. They celebrate the success of their album “Destiny”.
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Motown had Holland brothers Brian and Edward write a collection of songs for Michael Jackson during his latter years at Motown. Holland–Dozier–Holland are a songwriting and production team made up of Lamont Dozier and brothers Brian Holland and Edward Holland, Jr. They are considered to be one of the greatest songwriting teams in popular music. The trio wrote and arranged many of the songs making up the Motown sound which dominated American popular music in the 1960s.
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We’re Almost There” is a 1975 song released as a single by singer Michael Jackson, and which was the first release off his final Motown album, Forever, Michael. The single showcased Jackson’s tenor more prominently than in previous releases the past year.
The song is a soul-type of ballad that sparked a departure from the singer’s previous material which had included bubblegum pop. As Jackson’s voice matured, Motown found it difficult to find material to suit Jackson, who had sung in a higher voice for most of the duration of his Motown (1969-1975) tenure. With the return of the Holland brothers Brian and Edward, Motown had the duo write a collection of songs to fit Jackson’s age.
Performing more modestly, the song eventually peaked at number three on the pop chart while hitting number seven on the R&B chart. This single ended up being one of the last Jackson releases as an active Motown artist though the label would release more Jackson singles until 1984.
The song was later sampled in 2010 by the Wu-Tang Clan for their song “Our Dreams”.
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