Word: disco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...swinging person," says the Connecticut resident, who wished to remain anonymous. "I'm an academic and an intellectual, a museum curator. I'm not into the disco scene...
...About five years ago this stuff was really popular. You could get skateboard stickers in Cap'n Crunch," recalls one salesman at Dave's Bike Infirmary, a bicycle shop that has carried skateboards since 1976. "I don't know why--it just suddenly faded. Maybe roller disco or break dancing had something to do with that," he adds...
...appearance--but the unmarried Battle unwinds at her country house in Quogue, in Long Island's chic Hamptons. In the shower her taste runs more to What's Love Got to Do with It? than to Mozart, and occasionally she will dance the night away at a disco, although the next day she will regret having subjected her voice to the noise and smoke...
Those pastel police from TV's Miami Vice never leave the station house without some trendy disco music. Now millions of their fans are hopping to the same cop pop. An album of songs culled from the program has made a high-speed chase up the record charts, selling more than 3 million copies in a month. Last week the record reached No. 1 on the Billboard magazine chart, propelled by two Top Ten singles, the instrumental Miami Vice Theme by Jan Hammer and You Belong to the City by Glenn Frey. While movie sound tracks like last summer...
...effort was jinxed at the outset because of her choice of Narada Michael Walden as producer. Walden (who worked with Jeff Beck and helped turn the legendary ax man on to the panacea of disco) here has so little faith in Franklin's raw talents that he keeps drowning her vocals in a sea of special effects. The tracks on Who's Zoomin' skitter back and forth between different styles, from pop to soulful sassiness to coolly hip. The emphasis is always on Walden's pyrotechnical studio tricks...