![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Once upon a time, Moroder was the most sought-after producer in the world. It’s hard to imagine him getting into - or even wanting to get into - any club, ever. Wearing a fleece North Face vest over a blue-striped button-down, warmly waxing nostalgic, he looks more like a seasoned comparative literature professor than the prolific pioneer behind some of the most famous and influential dance songs of all time. The dark, shaggy mane he had at the height of disco is gone, replaced by slick-backed, thinning white hair he still sports his signature bushy mustache, though it, too, is now white. It’s a chilly Sunday afternoon in late January, and Moroder, now 75, is tucked into a booth in a cozy French café in Manhattan’s SoHo district. It was far too early in the evening, and I didn’t know that the earliest Studio 54 filled up was midnight.” So he let me in - and it was empty.” He continues, whimpering like a little boy with a broken toy: “I was so disappointed. “I said, ‘I’m not going to wait in the back.’ So I asked the driver if he could ask the doorman to let me in. “I had a driver, and I’d come to the Studio and I’d seen this long queue of people waiting to get in,” he recalls. It was in the mid-1970s, just after the Italian composer and producer had released “Love to Love You Baby,” his breakthrough smash with Donna Summer. Giorgio Moroder remembers going to Studio 54 only once. Sunglasses by Giorgio Moroder X RetroSuperFuture. Groomer: Andrew Fitzsimons for artists by Timothy Priano. ![]()
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