In the mood to boogie? These disco one-hit wonders managed to break through the charts in the 1970s, and some of them became iconic songs that are closely associated with the decade’s musical history.
Disco had a serious grip on global popular music in the late 1960s through the 1970s. It was a fun time, for sure. People were dancing, the music was evolving, and some megastars of the genre emerged.
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 ...
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 ...
Dubai’s Theatre of Digital Art will host Disco Experience by That ’70s Band on September 25, pairing live renditions of major 1970s dance hits with choreography, period-inspired costumes and the venue ...
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 ...
The smooth sounds of sibling duo The Carpenters, who came to epitomize easy listening in the pre-disco 1970s, topped the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time when Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s… By ...
Netflix's The Saint of Second Chances tells the story of the Chicago White Sox owners whose notorious "disco demolition" stunt has been blamed for toppling an entire music genre, writes Dorian Lynskey ...
Meco’s disco version of the Star Wars theme hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in October of 1977, selling two million copies internationally. Space Disco had taken off, and it remained in orbit ...
The disco ball twinkled in the night. Fog emanated from the dance floor. Glamorous strobe lights flashed. And the bar served… juice. For Santa Rosa teenagers during the late 1970s, the late-night hot ...