Recently, seven of the Top Ten singles in America were
disco-related. Having made it as the Next Big Thing, disco now
faces the challenge of sustaining its popularity against the
relentless monotony of its four-beat.
Not since the late Fifties, when the music business jumped on the rock & roll...
1979 RS:
Let us now praise famous men: the Cowboy, the Construction Worker, the Sailor, the Indian, the Traffic Cop, and the Leather Biker. Strange as it would have seemed in 1977, the Village People have become one of the disco decade's most enduring phenomena. There is not a sporting event, wedding reception, or monster-truck rally in the country where anyone would be surprised to hear "Y.M.C.A.," even...
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