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Boogie Wonderland: Disco's hottest '70s nightclubs

Sean O'Hagan, The Observer, 26 September 2015

IT WAS President Jimmy Carter's mother, Lillian, who first brought photographer Bill Bernstein to the legendary Studio 54 nightclub in New York one evening in the late 1970s. "I was working for the Village Voice when I got the call to go and photograph her," he recalls. "She was receiving an award for her humanitarian work and, for some reason, the ceremony was at Studio 54. So I went there and shot what I needed to, including a photo of her and Andy Warhol talking together."

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