Studio 54 opens
1977 · Event
Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager's Manhattan club, with its velvet rope and celebrity excess, becomes the emblem of disco at its height.
On these timelines: US Popular Music, USA, Master
More from US Popular Music
- Can I Kick It? (A Tribe Called Quest) (1990)
- Sexual Healing (Marvin Gaye) (1982)
- The Weight (The Band) (1968)
- I Wanna Be Your Dog (The Stooges) (1969)
- Mama Tried (Merle Haggard) (1968)
- He Stopped Loving Her Today (George Jones) (1980)
- Where Is My Mind? (Pixies) (1988)
- Sex Machine (James Brown) (1970)
Around 1977
- Prague Spring (1968)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Birth of hip-hop (1973)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)