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Written by: Pete Bellotte, Harold Faltermeyer, Keith Forsey
Giorgio Moroder, Bellotte
Released: April '79 on Casablanca
Charts: 21 weeks
Top spot: No. 1

The Rolling Stones' "Miss You" and Rod Stewart's "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy" approached disco from the world of rock, and now Summer and producer Moroder wanted to return the favor. Setting a thumping kick-drum pulse against a raunchy guitar solo from Doobie Brother (and disco hater) Jeff Baxter, they paved the way for subsequent hybrids such as Michael Jackson's "Beat It." For her part, the Queen of Disco snarled with an assertiveness rarely heard on her earlier Euro-disco hits.

Appears on: Bad Girls (Mercury/Chronicles)

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