Had anyone in the late 1970s predicted that either Richard Nixon or disco — then both widely disparaged — would one day be held in considerably higher regard, they would have been promptly laughed out ...
The 1970s was the decade when it comes to disco music. People flocked to clubs with their dancing shoes on wanting to hear music that gave them the combination of joy and thrill. It was all the rage ...
Disco music was one of the predominant forms of pop music in the 1970s. While subsequent generations made disco songs, the genre never again reached the same level of cultural saturation it did during ...
If you lived the relatively brief era when it ruled the world in the late 1970s, it’s hard to remain unbiased about disco. For some, it was the soundtrack of their coming-of-age years. Others ran as ...
While disco music is innocent and was created for the sheer pleasure of dancing, it is one of the more divisive genres. Why is that? Well, there are a multitude of different reasons and answers, but ...
John Lennon was a fan of one of the forgotten disco songs of the 1970s. He had a more tolerant attitude toward disco than some other rock stars. He was also a fan of another track from the same era ...
Rooted in racism, homophobia and the death of 70s rock, the Disco Sucks movement took aim at the new genre sweeping all ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin. The dazzling ...
Any retelling of the 1970s disco boom has to reckon with Disco Demolition Night, a shameful promotional event staged by Chicago shock-jock DJ Steve Dahl between games of a White Sox doubleheader on ...