Download PDF by James Arena: Legends of Disco: Forty Stars Discuss Their Careers

By James Arena

In this candid retrospective of the disco period (and follow-up to the book First girls of Disco), forty women and men who reigned over the dance track of the Seventies and early Nineteen Eighties remember their lives and careers earlier than, in the course of and after the genre's explosion. Artists interviewed include Debbie, Joni and Kim Sledge of Sister Sledge (We Are Family); Alfa Anderson, previously of elegant (Good Times); Ed Cermanski and Robert Upchurch of The Trammps (Disco Inferno); Sarah sprint (Sinner Man); manufacturer John Davis (Ain't That sufficient For You); Janice Marie Johnson of A style of Honey (Boogie Oogie Oogie); France Joli (Come To Me); Denis LePage of Lime (Babe, we are Gonna Love Tonite); Randy Jones of Village humans (YMCA); Studio fifty four DJ Robbie Leslie; Rob Parissi of untamed Cherry (Play That Funky Music); Bonnie Pointer (Heaven should have despatched You); manufacturer Warren Schatz (Turn The Beat Around); and many extra. comprises unique statement via manufacturer Patrick Adams (In The Bush), singers priceless Wilson (I cannot Stand The Rain) and Teri DeSario (Ain't not anything Gonna continue Me From You), and the overdue Henry Stone, founding father of T.K. documents. [This ebook was once formerly independently published via the writer as First Legends of Disco.]

Full record of featured artists:

Foreword by means of France Joli
Alfa Anderson - previously of Chic
William "Bubba" Anderson, James "Ajax" Baynard, los angeles Blacksmith, Tyrone Cox, Mark Lipetz, and Phil "Flip" Thomas of Crown Heights Affair
Clare bathtubé - previously of Machine 
Anthony Brooks of Harold Melvin's Blue Notes 
Ed Cermanski and Robert Upchurch of The Trammps 
Sarah Dash
John Davis - producer
Leonard "Butch" Davis and Joe Harris of Double Exposure 
Venus Dodson
Joy Dorris of Lime
Bob Esty
Jimmie Bo Horne
Geraldine Hunt
Carol Jiani
Janice Marie Johnson of A flavor of Honey
France Joli
Randy Jones - previously of Village People
Shirley Jones - previously of The Jones Girls
Denis LePage/Nini Nobless - previously of Lime
Robbie Leslie - Studio fifty four DJ
W. Michael Lewis - producer
George McCrae
Denise Montana
Eddie O'Loughlin - producer
Rob Parissi - previously of untamed Cherry
Bonnie Pointer
Warren Schatz - producer
Debbie Sledge, Joni Sledge and Kim Sledge of Sister Sledge
Arthur "Pooch" Tavares of Tavares
Richie Weeks - previously of Weeks & Co.
James "D-Train" Williams
Afterword via Henry Stone - founding father of T.K. Records

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