When was disco started

He did this to create an ample environment for men to dance together without the fear of police action. DJ David Mancuso played a pivotal role in development growth and spread of the disco music. This act made the genre popular among the gay community.

The breakthrough of the disco music came in the late s when disco songs started topping music charts. In the early s, disco music was becoming very popular globally, and artists who were not primarily disco musicians made some disco songs. The most notable disco artists had their career peaks in the s. She was active musically since to after she met her death.

During her long career, she produced 32 hit songs which earned spots in the US Billboard Hot Some of her hit songs are Lady of the Night, cats without claws, and Crayons which she produced in We became the little cute boys who shook their fannies—the disco boy group. Who felt more oppressed than they did? He said this would appeal to her core audience, which was a gay club audience. He asked if I knew anyone as large as I was who could sing.

He and Izora wore the same-size shoe, so she would break shoes in for him. But Paul was undeterred. He knew it was a hit. He said Donna Summer turned it down.

Diana Ross turned it down. Barbra Streisand turned it down. All the other divas turned it down. It sold 3 million copies in a week, 12 million worldwide. It was a juggernaut, it was huge. Play that funky music white boyPlay that funky music right. A lot of women identified with that.

I was always surprised at who was offended. He wears the finest clothes The best designers heaven knows …Halston, Gucci, Fiorucci. Marc Benecke and Steve Rubell—wearing a Norma Kamali down coat—were at the door, and those who gained entry felt special.

Every night was a party, and there never has been, nor ever will be, any place like it again. Bethann Hardison: At first, I was angry about Studio I felt that it was going to change real dancing and the dance-music world.

The worst thing to me was they served alcohol. I thought, How you gonna get drunk and dance? Ian Schrager: Steve was such a lover of people and so genuinely concerned with their feelings and truly got gratification from making them feel comfortable.

Fran Lebowitz: People want to dance because people want to have sex. Dancing is sex. Bethann Hardison: [Studio 54] actually changed the world. I work on my hair a long time. It also was the beginning of the end of disco. We wrote those songs in a week. Movie music! We played the songs for him, and he said they were perfect. Nik was fascinated by the idea that real music, real dance, was happening in the boroughs, that it was a blue-collar thing. So when Saturday Night Fever hit, Robert had the movie, their management, their publishing, and their record deal.

Kevin McCormick, former president of production, Warner Bros. African Americans, Latino Americans and women — and a mixture of all these identities — all found a way to express themselves within disco. For example, a lot of most influential performers are were African American women who developed a really strong relationship with gay audiences.

Singers like Grace Jones,Gloria Gaynor, Donna Summer… the list goes on, had lyrics about survival of hardship and emotional resilience that were profoundly appealing to the gay dance crowd.

The people who led that backlash, those in mainstream culture, were the Democrats who switched to voting Republican and brought Reagan to power in s. Tim Lawrence says: By disco was outselling rock music in America which came as a huge shock to the music establishment, because it was heavily backing rock.

Initially it was DJs clawing around finding records to play. So independent record labels were crucial for the development of disco. A label called Sceptre Records was one of the first to spot what was going on in the discotheques so started to commission records specifically for the disco market.

Another indie, Salsoul, realised that dancers wanted to own 12 inch singles they made for DJs, so in they were the first label to release one commercially, which proved a major foundation for dance culture more widely.

So disco was a great moment for demonstrating the nimbleness of indies and their ability to react quickly to the music on the street. The key difference was they invited a DJ, Walter Gibbons, to remix the record for the dance floor. This proved scandalous and lots of producers took great offence. So the remix, which is now ubiquitous, came to the fore thanks to disco. Whereas disco and dance from at the beginning of the decade was musically varied, innovative and culturally progressive, mainstream culture copied the wrong bits.

It was originally formed in the late s as a reaction to the popularity of Rock music and the stigmatization of alternative music styles which were preferred by the youth. By incorporating the elements of funk, soul, pop and salsa , dance music and dances quickly rose in popularity in North America, reaching the height of power mids to early s when disco dances in discotheques represented some of the most sought-off forms of entertainment by young men and women from many different backgrounds.

These new music hits and associated sub-genres Euro disco, space disco, nu-disco… and fusion genres dance-punk and disco house enabled disco dance to survive and be practiced even today.