Disco

Many commentators have often given punk rock full credit for sweeping away the cobwebs that had collected on the popular music industry during the early 1970s. However, disco reached a much wider audience, and was also a far greater commercial success. Its insistent, light and lively rhythms freshened up the music scene in the late 1970s to a greater extent than punk's self-destructive minimalism ever did. Any artist wanting to be regarded as alert to new ideas during this...