The Bee Gees – the name is an acronym of “The Brothers Gibb” – are indisputably one of the most popular recording acts of all…
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Euro-disco big cheeses Boney M were the creation of Frank Farian – the German record producer who also flogged Milli Vanilli to a grateful planet. But we…
Can’t Stop the Music was produced by Allan Carr – who was also responsible for the mega-musical Grease (1978) – as a vehicle to promote the…
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, including…
Chic formed in New York in 1977, primarily as a working unit for guitarist Nile Rodgers and bassist Bernard Edwards who had started out working…
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 very…
Synthetics (satin, polyester, velour) Gold lamé Designer clothes and shoes (Gucci, YSL, Charles Jourdan) French Cut Jeans Gaudy polyester shirts High-waisted super-wide pantsuits Short bomber…
The major new movement which began in the USA in 1975 and would spread its influence worldwide, was disco music. Originally regarded by many as…
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…
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 hit Boogie…
KC and the Sunshine Band comprised, in the main, session musicians from the TK Studios which were owned by Henry Stone (who had run a…
Beginning as The Jazziacs in Jersey City (New Jersey) in 1964, the band renamed themselves Kool and the Flames – named after bass player, Robert…
This supposed “British version of Saturday Night Fever” sticks to the Grease formula by casting an actor (Gerry Sundquist) and a singer (Nigerian-born Patti Boulaye) to…
The movie which single-handedly made disco the dominant force on the planet for a brief period of the 70s and launched John Travolta to stardom.…
The late 1970s saw a huge Disco boom across the world, fuelled by the success of the 1977 movie Saturday Night Fever. As the records…
The five Tavares brothers – Ralph, Antone (Chubby), Arthur (Pooch), Perry Lee (Tiny) and Feliciano (Butch) – scored a string of light soul-pop and disco…
This low-budget disco craze exploitation film was planned entirely as a promotional vehicle for artists under contract to Motown and Casablanca Records and featured music by…
1 9 7 8 (Australia) 7 x 60 minute episodes Despite the title, this Australian disco show aired on Monday nights (Thursday nights in Brisbane). 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…
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…