It’s hard to deny that the disco ball is our most treasured party symbol. Reflecting fractals of light from above the dancefloor and pulling our focus to the center of it, the mirrorball tells ...
Ever since the 1979 Disco Demolition Night in Chicago’s Comiskey Park — a stunt in which an angry mob led by a disgruntled radio shock jock rushed the baseball field to destroy disco albums — people ...
This wonderful series documents the passion and idealism of the 70s music scene. It’s an immaculately soundtracked history lesson – and so much more besides After the tumult of the last few years, UK ...
Disco; it’s a vague word but over the course of the last 45-odd years, it’s come to mean a pretty narrow set of perceptions. Glitz, glamour, flares, sequins, cocaine, VIP, John Travolta, big hair, bad ...
GLORIA GAYNOR: I started out singing jazz, singing top 40 in clubs, and between sets, disc jockeys would come in to play and I knew that was the next storm coming; I saw that we were going to be ...
If you felt the world stop turning for a moment in July, it’s because Beyoncé dropped her new album, Renaissance. Rolling Stone has described her as the world’s “greatest living entertainer”, with a ...