1978
Mighty real, mightily loud
Sylvester - Step II (Vinyl LP)
This is the record that made the floor at every place worth being. Sylvester wore more sequins than the mirror ball and out-shined it. When the falsetto starts...
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The Nightlife
After dark at the Factory. The party you do not clean up.
1978
1970s
The saucer, never the flute
Vintage Coupe Champagne Glasses (Set of 6)
The wide shallow ones are the only shape that looks right holding nothing at four in the morning. They photograph beautifully because they catch the disco light and...
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1979
The anthem for people with no family
Sister Sledge - We Are Family (Vinyl LP)
Chic produced it so it has that clean expensive sound, like champagne that is actually cold. Everyone sang along even the people who came alone. It is a...
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1970s
Silver, like everything I owned
Stainless Steel Cocktail Shaker Bar Set
It is chrome so it matches the mirror ball and the foil on the walls and my hair some years. I never learned to use it properly but...
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1970s
A thousand little silver squares
12-Inch Rotating Mirror Disco Ball with Motor
It is a machine that turns one light into everybody, which is my favorite kind of arithmetic. The Factory was already silver so this just kept the theme...
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1979
Toot toot, beep beep, deadpan
Donna Summer - Bad Girls (Vinyl LP)
Giorgio Moroder made a machine that sounds like it is out past its bedtime. I photographed Donna and she was very calm about being on the cover of...
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1981
The face, the hat, the flattop
Grace Jones - Nightclubbing (Vinyl LP)
Grace turned herself into a poster and then recorded an album to match it. She looks like a Warhol I did not get to make, which bothers me...
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2011
The man who wrote the beat
Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny by Nile Rodgers
Chic played while everyone at the Factory pretended not to dance. He was turned away at the door once and wrote a hit about it, which is the...
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1977
The record every apartment owned
Saturday Night Fever Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Vinyl)
Everybody had this one, which is exactly why I wanted it. When a thing sells that many copies it stops being a record and becomes wallpaper, and I...
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1997
Everyone I knew, in one index
The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, and the Culture of the Night by Anthony Haden-Guest
It is the room after the lights came up, which is the part nobody photographs. I recognize most of the names because I stood next to them. Reading...
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1978
Le Freak on repeat, all night
Chic - C'est Chic (Vinyl LP)
The whole band dressed like they were going somewhere better than you, and they usually were. I put this on and the room takes care of itself. It...
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