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Light Years: The Golden Age of the Night Club

James Medd, The Rake, December 2016

When you think of the '70s, what do you see? How about Bianca Jagger on a white horse at Studio 54, or Grace Jones on a pink Harley-Davidson at le Palace? The decade of economic and social unrest was also the golden age of the nightclub, when fashion, music and art came together to create a lifestyle so desirable it needed a strict door policy at all times.

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