Tag: Disco
Car Wash (1976)
A close-knit group of black employees at a Los Angeles car wash have all manner of strange visitors coming onto their forecourt one day,...
Can’t Stop The Music (1980)
Can't Stop the Music was made by Allan Carr, who was also responsible for the mega-musical Grease (1978), as a vehicle for the promotion of the Village...
Village People
Part clever concept, part exaggerated camp act, the Village People were worldwide sensations during disco's heyday and seemed to keep reviving like the phoenix.
French disco...
Heatwave
This British-based multiracial disco band were a breeding ground for future top writing and producing talent. Keyboard player Rod Temperton (who wrote their 1977...
Donna Summer
Donna Summer was born LaDonna Adrian Gaines on 31 December 1948 in the Dorchester community of Boston.
One of seven children raised by devout Christian parents, Donna...
Trammps, The
Disco's most soulful vocal group began in the 60s as The Volcanoes and were also called The Moods.
A snappy revival of Judy Garland's 1940s tune Zing...
Chic
Chic formed in New York in 1977, primarily as a working unit for guitarist Nile Rodgers and bassist Bernard Edwards who had started out...
Studio 54
The late 1970s saw a huge Disco boom across the world, fuelled by the success of the 1977 movie Saturday Night Fever. As the...
Disco
In 1976, there were an estimated 10,000 discos open in the US, as opposed to only 1,500 in 1974. Before Saturday Night Fever (1977), disco was...
Disco Music
The major new movement which began in the USA in 1975 and would spread its influence worldwide, was disco music. Originally regarded by many...
