Unofficially Disco started with the general public when the movie Saturday Night Fever premiered starring actor John Travolta with a soundtrack by the Bee Gees and other singers and musicians.
It actually started much earlier in 1970 with the gay community and a certain notorious Studio.
I was attending The University Of Miami during 1975 to 1977: the height of the Disco craze.
It seemed like everyone was grooving to the music of the Bee Gees, Casey And The Sunshine Band, Madonna, Gloria Estefan, (whom I went to school with) and other hot Latin influenced acts.
Miami, Florida was the mecca of Disco. I remember it was a wild time, with lots of music, dance, Disco movies and on the darker side drugs, sex and self-indulgence.
Rizzoli/Universe presents the history and phenomenon of disco with its new book by author Frank DeCaro: Disco Music, Movies And Mania Under The Mirror Ball.
This gorgeous, oversize, hard-bound book with its prismatic cover featuring a scantily clad Disco Queen is bursting its cover with tons of photos and text including first-hand accounts and experiences.
Witness how Disco changed and influenced fashion, invaded TV shows, had sell-out crowds at movies and clubs, created timeless music classics and shook up the entire world of pop culture with its styles, loud music with a heavy beat and started a “Disco Inferno!”
It’s hard to believe it all happened almost 50 years ago! Relive the magic, mania, move-to-the-groove and music that lit up the dance-room floor, made mirror balls a must-have and introduced fashion conscious fans to platform shoes, tight pants, iridescent shirts, hairy chests, lots of bling and cloths so skimpy that they would make you blush.
It’s Disco baby and its time move and groove!
Included are descriptions of top songs by year, special events and other descriptions on how Disco changed the world.
Proverbs 29:25 - The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe.
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