“Heart of Glass” is a perfect blend of disco, rock, and pop. Blondie successfully merged these styles, creating a fresh and exciting sound. The track is upbeat and funky, yet still has the raw energy ...

A story that’s about much more than music, The War On Disco explores how the powerful anti-disco backlash revealed a cultural divide that to some seemed to be driven by racism and homophobia. 9pm ...

Donna Summer, the undisputed Queen of Disco, shocked the music world with her hidden talent for crafting timeless hits. Her ...

Even the most committed of rock music lovers ended up hearing plenty of disco songs – and, in time, many came to appreciate their booty-shaking sense of abandon. Whether you were around for the ...

With the Beatles a thing of the past and the counterculture revolution aging into different forms of expression, rock music in the 1970s evolved into an even more sophisticated and album-oriented art ...

The War on Disco explores the culture war that erupted over the spectacular rise of disco music. Originating in underground Black and gay clubs, disco had unseated rock as America’s most popular music ...

Pop vocal trio the Bee Gees performing at the Music for UNICEF Concert at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, January, 1979. The 1970s were an eclectic time for music and cultural ...

Disco is a music genre and a subculture born out of a dance floor and pioneered by Black musicians, DJs and producers in the 1970s and early 1980s. The word disco comes from the Italian discoteca, ...

The 1970s was the decade when it comes to disco music. People flocked to clubs with their dancing shoes on wanting to hear music that gave them the combination of joy and thrill. It was all the rage ...

This article is the seventh in a series called A Thousand Words, where we feature an interesting image from one of our films alongside an essay about why that picture is worth, well, a thousand words.