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25.01.2022 Happy Birthday to Nile Rodgers. Nile Gregory Rodgers Jr. (born September 19, 1952) is an American guitarist, singer-songwriter, record producer, arranger and composer. Nile Rodgers' contribution to popular music has been extremely significant, so much more than the signature "chucking" style he developed as a brilliant rhythm guitarist. The musician penned some of the most progressive and popular songs of the disco era with Chic, who topped the Billboard Hot 100 with "Le Fr...eak" and the hip-hop catalyst "Good Times," and released platinum albums such as C'est Chic (1978) and Risqué (1979). He has since produced dozens of hits, over several decades, for a wide variety of other artists, including Diana Ross' "Upside Down," David Bowie's "Let's Dance," Madonna's "Like a Virgin," and Daft Punk's "Get Lucky," and has remained an inspiration for aspiring musicians born long after disco's supposed death. Rodgers continued to lead Chic 40 years after the band's debut, even after he and partner Bernard Edwards became Songwriters Hall of Fame members. Revitalized in the late 2010s as the main attraction at festivals as diverse as Essence and Glastonbury, Chic returned to the studio for It's About Time (2018).
21.01.2022 24 November, 1991. R.I P...
21.01.2022 YES :) My own hand on my own home system
19.01.2022 https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10164172572280523&id=10150124052535523&sfnsn=mo&extid=glohM5JBJ9i6AakE
18.01.2022 Everyone had their favourite corner store growing up. The counter was usually attended to by a gentleman like the one pictured and 20c worth of lollies was a plentiful bounty...
17.01.2022 Today, we remember Freddie Mercury. Back in the ‘80s, he and Michael recorded There Must Be More To Life Than This but the duet wasn’t actually released until... 2014. These two legends were trailblazers in the music industry. Stream the song today: https://MichaelJackson.lnk.to/ThereMustBeMoreToLifeThanThis See more
16.01.2022 Donna Summer with daughter Mimi
13.01.2022 It was only chocolate and vanilla when I was growing up.
13.01.2022 https://www.thesun.co.uk//abba-secretly-filming-hologram-/
12.01.2022 R.I.P. Max Merritt. Another absolute legend of music lost to the big stage in the sky today. This song couldn’t be more appropriate.
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09.01.2022 On the 24th of September 1978, 42 years ago today, Ms Donna Summer released a multi-million selling vinyl single disco version of "MacArthur Park". The song rea...ched number one on the Billboard Chart the week of the 11th of November 1978, for 3 weeks. This earned Summer her first nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Summer was also nominated for Favourite Pop/Rock Female at the American Music Awards where her album Live and More took the award for favourite Disco Album. She became the first female artist of the modern era to have the number one single and album simultaneously on the Billboard pop charts (the week of the 11th of November 1978). Italian producer Giorgio Moroder would recall that he and his collaborator Pete Bellotte had been interested in the concept of either remixing a track as yet undecided which had been a hit in the 1960s or remaking a 1960s hit as a dance track. Moroder said, "I remember that I was driving in... on the Hollywood Freeway, and I heard the original song, "MacArthur Park" by Richard Harris, on the radio. I thought, 'That's it that's the song we've been looking for almost a year.'" Moroder asked Neil Bogart, president of Casablanca Records, to provide him with a copy of the Richard Harris version of "MacArthur Park" to serve as a basis for Moroder's envisioned 'discofied' reinvention. Bogart obliged with an 8- track player containing Harris's version, prompting Moroder to buy an 8-track player in order to hear it. Moroder readily identified "MacArthur Park" as, "...a great song for Donna with all those high notes, it was perfect (for her)...First, I (located) a key that she could sing really high, but still with a big voice that took an hour or two. I played a little piano and she sang it with my accompaniment. We found a key and we had Greg Mathieson do the arrangement and then I did something very special" that "something very special" being Moroder's recording of his own voice to form a choir heard behind Summer on the song's chorus. "I recorded about 20 seconds of all the notes, which I was able to sing on a 24-track. I made a loop of those notes and put that loop in the desk. I could form eight chords by having C-E-G right on the group. I played the chords by moving the track according to the chord that I needed." Of basing a 'discofied' arrangement on the template for Webb's arrangement on the Harris version Moroder would recall, "To be honest, it was a very difficult song to (arrange), especially the brass, but we had the best musicians in town. Summer's recording of "MacArthur Park", included as part of the "MacArthur Park Suite" on her double album "Live And More", was eight minutes and forty seconds long. The shorter seven-inch vinyl single version which omits the song's ‘balladic’ second movement afforded Summer her first #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The nearly 18-minute "MacArthur Park Suite" incorporated the original songs "One of a Kind" and "Heaven Knows", the latter being issued as the second single off Live and More. This medley was also sold as a 12-inch (30 cm) vinyl recording, and it stayed at number one on Dance charts for five weeks in 1978. The versions of this medley in Live and More and in the 12-inch recording are notably different in the presentation of the two original songs. In the 12-inch version, "Heaven Knows" was extended to incorporate the instrumental string introduction and the bridge horn solo of the single version for radio stations, but left out the second verse and "One of a Kind" was trimmed of a large part of the instrumental break but included the second verse. Lyrically, Summer's rendition is also curious, in that it adds the word "Chinese" to clarify what type of checkers were being played. An amazing and unique song which showcases Summer's vocal range. Once again, a song which cemented her position as the Queen of Disco. Remembered See more
09.01.2022 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vp9nofE9CEQ
08.01.2022 https://www.theage.com.au//hard-hit-music-scene-finds-new-
08.01.2022 Happy Birthday, Mr Bruce! ;-)
06.01.2022 https://www.truehollywoodtalk.com/abba-tracks-rediscovered/
03.01.2022 https://youtu.be/Px70SMnwFHw
03.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/49384278925/posts/10158763794898926/
02.01.2022 Thank you to everyone for sending me all of your wonderful birthday messages today! And a huge thank you to Stephanie & Parker for this beautiful and thoughtfu...l #SendACake gift with the wonderful photo memories, gorgeous tea roses and adorable mini bundt cake! . . #gloriagaynor #birthday #birthdaygirl #birthdaycake #iwillsurvive #discomusic #popmusic #gospelmusic #rnbmusic #dancemusic #harrystyles #dojacat #katyperry #jlo #mariahcarey #britneyspears #littlemix #jadethirlwall #jamesarthur #jarmy #rhobh See more
02.01.2022 https://www.abc.net.au//founding-skyhooks-guitari/12668908
01.01.2022 Sunday Morning After The Disco Early 70s The Fountain Central Park 72nd Street..
