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The series documented the impact that disco music had on popular culture in the 1970s. The show featured several disco innovators and people related to the culture including: Marty Angelo - Producer, Disco Step-by-Step; Charlie Anzalone - Club DJ; Maurice Brahms - Club owner, Infinity; Harry Wayne Casey - Lead singer of KC and the Sunshine Band
Nu-disco is a 21st-century dance music genre associated with the renewed interest in 1970s and early 1980s disco, [132] mid-1980s Italo disco, and the synthesizer-heavy Euro disco aesthetics. [133] The moniker appeared in print as early as 2002, and by mid-2008 was used by record shops such as the online retailers Juno and Beatport. [ 134 ]
Two men dance together during a 1978 New Year’s Eve party at the Backlot, a popular gay disco in West Hollywood. (Credit: George Rose/Getty Images)
Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 American dance drama film directed by John Badham and produced by Robert Stigwood.It stars John Travolta as Tony Manero, a young Italian-American man who spends his weekends dancing and drinking at a local discothèque while dealing with social tensions and disillusionment in his working class ethnic neighborhood in Brooklyn.
"Disco: The Soundtrack of a Revolution," airing on PBS Tuesday, ties the music not just to its place in the evolution of pop but to the liberation movements of the time.
Can't Stop the Music is a 1980 American musical comedy film directed by Nancy Walker in her only directed featured film. Written by Allan Carr and Bronté Woodard, the film is a pseudo-biography of the 1970s disco group the Village People loosely based on the actual story of how the group formed.
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The film's distributor had also pushed the filmmakers to complete the film and get it released before the Miramax disco club film 54, and it was; 54 was released in US cinemas in late August 1998, two months after the theatrical debut of The Last Days of Disco. [7]