![]() ![]() That is, unless an extra factor is added for the live performances, like the camp outrage of Grace Jones or Village People.īut then, as I said, I’m in two minds. ![]() But there is a difference between being bombarded with disco music in a disco, and actually sitting down and listening to it non-stop in your home, your car, or – worse still – at a concert. Disco is fine for the discotheque and (speaking strictly as a non-participant) I’m pleased that dancing has become fashionable again. Which leaves me in two minds, and more than a little depressed. With the opening of the film The Music Machine, the disco obsession is likely to creep in further over here. Now it’s Donna Summer and Sister Sledge, both in the top three of the American singles and albums charts this week. ![]() Americans used to roll down the highways to the sound of Fleetwood Mac and the Eagles. But that doesn’t mean that the kids in Purley or Middlesbrough are going to stop dancing.Īnd when I was in America a couple of weeks back it sounded as if almost every other radio station had a new policy of playing non-stop disco. It’s possible that some of the trendy London discos will close, simply because the top peoples’ market is getting over-priced, over-large, and will suffer from the whims of fashion. It’s the most commercially successful new movement in pop music to have emerged in the Seventies and despite rumours to the contrary the boom shows no sign of collapsing. It’s impossible to leave disco alone because it’s creeping in everywhere and it won’t go away. ![]()
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