{"id":2246,"date":"2010-01-17T15:09:26","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T22:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/01\/the-disco-beat-was-created-so-that-white-people-could-dance\/"},"modified":"2010-01-17T15:10:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T22:10:44","slug":"the-disco-beat-was-created-so-that-white-people-could-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/17\/the-disco-beat-was-created-so-that-white-people-could-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"“The disco beat was created so that white people could dance.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Donna Summer sizzles in sequins on Halloween in Boston, 1978.\u00a0By Ron Galella<\/em>;\u00a0opposite,<\/em>\u00a0Grace Jones performs at Studio 54 on New Year\u2019s Eve, 1978.\u00a0By Waring Abbott\/Getty Images.<\/em><\/p>\n

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It became known, and ultimately reviled, as Disco. But the music that surged out of gay underground New York clubs such as the Loft and 12 West in the early 70s was the sound of those who wanted to dance, dance, dance\u2014blotting out everything but their bodies and the beat. The author hears from Donna Summer, Ian Schrager, Gloria Gaynor, and others who helped create the strobe-lit, sex-driven, amyl-nitrite-fueled scene, the phenomena of Studio 54 and\u00a0Saturday Night Fever,<\/em>\u00a0and the songs that reverberated into a new millennium.<\/p>\n

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W<\/span>hen we made \u201cLove to Love You Baby,\u201d we knew it was somewhat innovative, but nobody knew people would jump on that bandwagon and all of a sudden the whole world would be going disco.<\/em>\u2014Donna Summer<\/p>\n

After Saturday Night Fever, we wanted to do a poster, with the three of us in Rambo\u2019s bodies, with machine guns, and in the background there\u2019d be a body in a white suit, bullet-ridden, and the mirror ball all shot to pieces.<\/em>\u00a0\u2014Maurice Gibb, 1987.<\/p>\n

The disco beat was created so that white people could dance.<\/em>\u00a0\u2014Bethann Hardison.<\/p>\n

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