- Buckle up, because these queens
are about to take us to Funkytown.
(radio static buzzing)
♪ Hey ♪ Hey, all you foxy people,
♪ Hey ♪ this is Mama Ru on the radio
♪ Oh! ♪ and ooh, do I have
a story to lay on you!
- [Man] Mama Ru on the radio.
♪ Mama Ru on the radio ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
- [Ru] In the early 1970s, a new sound
was bubbling up from the street,
a hot mix of rhythm and blues,
salsa and funk, with an undeniable beat.
Disco was born, creating booty-shaking anthems
for gay liberation, black power, women's rights,
and the dance floor would never be the same.
(groovy music)
(woman laughing)
♪ Freedom on the dance floor ♪
♪ Won't stop 'til we get more ♪
♪ Freedom on the dance floor ♪
♪ Won't stop 'til we get more ♪
♪ Freedom on the dance floor ♪
♪ Won't stop 'til we get more ♪
♪ Freedom ♪
♪ Oh ♪
Disco celebrated sex, a throbbing beat
that made you want to shake your groove thing.
Meet a stranger, feel the beat, and let's get it on.
♪ If I say love ♪
(woman moaning)
♪ If I say love ♪
- [Woman] Yeah.
♪ If I say love ♪
(woman moaning)
♪ If I say love ♪
(woman moaning)
♪ If I say love ♪
(woman moaning)
♪ If I say love ♪
(woman moaning)
♪ If I say love ♪ Oh, yeah, oh, yeah,
♪ If I say love ♪ oh, yeah, oh!
♪ Everybody, everybody ♪
♪ Hey, everybody ♪
- Come on! - Disco brought different
worlds together at the legendary Studio 54.
Liza, Halston, and Warhol did the double bump
with drag queens, bus boys and hot studs on roller skates.
In this boogie wonderland, everybody was a superstar.
♪ Superstar, you know you are ♪
♪ Feeling free ♪
♪ All I need ♪
♪ If you please ♪
♪ In the balcony ♪
(upbeat disco music)
Disco ignited a fashion explosion.
Skin was in, baby, and so were spaghetti straps,
feathered hair, designer jeans, and those pants were tight.
(funky music)
♪ Oh yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Gucci, hoochie, ♪
♪ Susan Lucci ♪
♪ Gucci, hoochie, ♪
♪ Susan Lucci ♪
♪ Gucci, hoochie, ♪
♪ Susan Lucci ♪
♪ Gucci, hoochie, ♪
♪ Susan Lucci ♪
♪ Ooh, touch me there ♪
♪ My designer derriere ♪
Disco gave us divas.
Donna Summer, - Hot stuff.
- Diana Ross, - She's the boss.
- [Ru] and there was no shame
in Evelyn Champagne King's game,
but one disco queen paved the way for the rest of us.
The fearless and flamboyant Sylvester
showed the world how we could all feel mighty real.
(groovy music)
♪ Walk by your island ♪
♪ To San Francisco ♪
♪ Queens are queens are queens ♪
♪ We are the queens of disco ♪
By the end of the seventies,
the disco revolution was under attack.
(suspenseful music)
Haters shouted, "Disco sucks." - Disco sucks, disco sucks!
- They set our records - Disco sucks!
- On fire, and our dreams - Disco sucks!
- Became a disco inferno. - Disco sucks!
Disco sucks, disco sucks! (sirens blaring)
Disco sucks, disco sucks! (funky music)
♪ Fire, yeah, my pussy's on fire, yeah ♪
♪ Burnin', burnin', burnin' ♪
♪ Tables are turnin' ♪
♪ You will soon be learnin' ♪
♪ That you can't get my fire ♪
♪ My pussy's on fire ♪
(woman laughing)
- [Group] Shame, shame, you can't put out all the flame.
Shame, shame, you can't - They tried
- Put out all the flame. - to kill what we loved.
- Shame, shame, you can't - But disco never died.
- Put out all the flame. - It just changed
its name and address.
Today, reminds us that our souls are connected
through spirit, and how together we can do anything.
It do take a village, people.
(Ru laughing)
("We Are Family" by Sister Sledge playing)
♪ We are family ♪
♪ Oh, I can hear you now ♪
♪ Get up, everybody, and sing ♪
♪ We are family ♪
♪ I got all my sisters with me ♪
♪ We are family ♪
♪ Get up, get up now ♪
♪ Get up, everybody, and sing ♪
♪ Hey, hey ♪
(Ru laughing)
(judges clapping)