Displaying items by tag: Saturday Night Fever
Tuesday, 07 July 2020 16:38
A Mini History of Disco
After the success of Rock’n’Roll, many African American artists started to explore their musical heritage and look beyond blues and R&B for inspiration. The terms ‘funk’ and ‘rock’n’roll were euphemisms for sex, with the former referring to the smells of intimacy and the latter the act.
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Sunday, 23 February 2020 15:14
The Life and Times of Music Entrepreneur Robert Stigwood
Robert Stigwood was born in 1934 in Adelaide, South Australia and was educated at Sacred Heart College. He began his career as a copywriter for a local advertising agency but in 1955, aged 21 he moved to England. At first, he took odd jobs including working as an assistant in the institution for "teenage boys" in East Anglia.
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Sunday, 03 February 2019 15:53
Eden –The Life and Times of a French DJ, Featuring Daft Punk
Eden, directed by Mia Hansen-Løve, (Things to Come, Father of My Children) is a poignant and edgy film. As the plot unfolds, we are told of the story of a young and hip Parisian man, Paul Vallée,
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Sunday, 26 January 2014 16:45
The Secret Disco Revolution
© Words Matteo Sedazzari
The Secret Disco Revolution is an ambitious, well structured, informative and entertaining documentary made by Toronto born film maker Jamie Kastner. Kastner has chosen a music genre and movement that in the year 2014 most people take for granted, not in a dismissive way, but the sheer fact that if any famous piece of disco music, such as Thelma Houston’s Don't Leave Me This Way, comes on the radio or at a party,
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