The Saturday Night Fever double album soundtrack, which included the song "Stayin' Alive," was released a few weeks ahead of ...

Cher released songs in many genres, including classic rock, pop, folk, and hair metal. However, a disco track from many years after disco supposedly died remains her best song. It only works because ...

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 ...

The Beatles made songs in many different genres but disco was not one of them. Despite this, John Lennon compared one of the songs from The White Album to disco music. Interestingly, two members of ...

Disco music originated in the 1960s at underground venues popular with LGBTQ+, Black, and Latinx Americans. Still, it wasn’t long before the subculture spread from clubs in New York and Philadelphia ...

The Rolling Stones are often considered one of the best rock and roll bands of all time. That’s interesting, considering they often created music that wasn’t rock. The Rolling Stones dabbled in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Disco is finally getting its due, thanks to works like 2024's PBS docuseries "Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution" and a new book by ...

On March 10, 1979, disco legend Gloria Gaynor topped the Billboard Hot 100 with "I Will Survive", a funk-inspired single that remains her most popular song to date. The song was originally released as ...

After breaking into the music industry as back-up singers for queer disco legend Sylvester, the duo of Martha Wash & Izora Armstead—formerly known as Two Tons O’ Fun—made it big on their own with the ...

Disco is finally getting its due, thanks to works like 2024's PBS docuseries "Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution" and a new book by a former Detroit journalist who has given the indelible music genre ...