PBS PREMIERES POWERFUL, REVISIONIST HISTORY OF POPULAR 1970s MUSIC IN “DISCO: SOUNDTRACK OF A REVOLUTION,” A THREE-PART DOCUSERIES IN SUMMER 2024 Series Shines Light on Disco’s Groovy Beginnings, ...

Disco! The very word hustles you back to the 1970s, the decade in which it was gloriously born in the loft parties and basement clubs of New York, where it blossomed into a national obsession and ...

Disco is finally getting its due, thanks to works like 2024's PBS docuseries "Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution" and a new book by a former Detroit journalist who has given the indelible music genre ...

The demise of disco was greatly accelerated by the cultural impact of the infamous Disco Demolition Night of 1979 in Chicago’s Comiskey Park. While rockers have used the word in a pejorative sense for ...

Dive into how disco fell victim to a violent backlash and emerged to come back stronger. Disco seemed untouchable by the end of the 1970s, but an incited violent backlash led to its demise. Dive into ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Forty years ago, on July 12, 1979, what was supposed to be a wacky promotional stunt by shock-rock DJ Steve Dahl to sell tickets ...

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — She was known as the queen of disco but it was a label Donna Summer never liked. As she states over and over again in the jukebox musical biography ”Summer: The Donna Summer ...

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 ...

Dubai: Sequins? Check. Swagger? Double check. A soundtrack that defined an era? Absolutely. Before it became a glitter-drenched stage spectacle, Disco Dancer was the 1982 Bollywood blockbuster that ...