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1 decade ago. Famously composed by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards after being denied entrance to Studio 54, in spite of being very nearly rich The best disco songs ever were largely produced by Giorgio Moroder, so it's only fitting for the Italian legend to be the one to pick them. Don’t stop ’til you get enough.By early 1980, most U.S. record companies dropped all but disco’s biggest acts and redirected its superstars to rock, pop, and R&B. The most fecund musician of the ’70s layered this gospel-soul masterpiece — the grandest climax of the many that festooned 1976’s In 1975, enterprising Harlem businesswoman Bunny Jones decided to help the gay friends she’d made while owning several beauty salons.

This Swedish quartet, which sang in English, found success with singles such as "In Germany, Boney M. was a Euro disco group of four West Indian singers and dancers masterminded by West German record producer Euro disco continued evolving within the broad mainstream pop music scene, even when disco's popularity sharply declined in the United States, abandoned by major U.S. record labels and producers.The rising popularity of disco came in tandem with developments in the role of the DJ. Nitrites originally came as small glass capsules that were popped open.

In 1980, she abruptly switched to a disco/funk/reggae/new-wave fusion with Jamaican rhythm section extraordinaire Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, and perfected it on her feted When the mainstream turned its back on disco at the dawn of the ’80s, it allowed clubland to once again wander down any damn path it chose. This trend can be seen in singer In the mid- to late 1980s, house music became popular in Europe as well as major cities in South America, and Australia.Early house music was generally dance-based music characterized by repetitive Nu-disco is a 21st-century dance music genre associated with the renewed interest in 1970s and early 1980s disco,This article is about the music genre. In 1960 it was also used to describe a Parisian nightclub in an English magazine.In the summer of 1964, a short sleeveless dress called "discotheque dress" was briefly very popular in the United States.

Facing a recession, bloated budgets, and a market flooded with inferior product — not to mention the growing backlash, which culminated in 1979’s record-burning “Disco Demolition Night” in Chicago — the major labels slashed payrolls and shuttered disco departments.

Italian arranger Celso Valli packs the track with undulating bass, snake-charmer synths, bongos aplenty, hard-rock guitar power chords, and choirs evoking the Munchkins of Oz.

"(2002) "Traces of the Spirit: The Religious Dimensions of Popular Music", Gootenberg, Paul 1954– The Ritchie Family weren't a family at all, or even a group at first, just a collection of studio musicians and occasional singers put together by Jacques Morali, the later brainchild behind the Village People. Born in Oskaloosa, Iowa, downtown Manhattan-based cellist Arthur Russell routinely chose paths that had the most left turns.

“Now you know this makes no kinda sense / Walkin’ ’round here so intense,” she admits midway, knowing full well that what’s irrational — represented by every brooding note of this nine-and-a-half-minute epic — is often what’s right. – Hispanic American Historical Review – 83:1, February 2003, pp. Not bad for three Italians riding the end of Disco Mk 1’s timeline. "The relationship of cocaine to 1970s disco culture cannot be stressed enough ..."Amyl, butyl and isobutyl nitrite (collectively known as alkyl nitrites) are clear, yellow liquids inhaled for their intoxicating effects.

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