{"id":5456,"date":"2014-04-02T12:08:14","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T19:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5456"},"modified":"2014-04-08T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T19:15:00","slug":"frankie-knuckles-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/02\/frankie-knuckles-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankie Knuckles Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Chicago Tribune<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Frankie Knuckles, house music ‘godfather,’ dead at 59<\/h1>\n

by\u00a0Greg Kot<\/p>\n

\"Knuck\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In Chicago, Frankie Knuckles was called the \u201cgodfather,\u201d not because of any underworld connections, but because he helped build house \u2013 a style of Chicago dance music that revolutionized club culture in the \u201870s and \u201880s and still resonates around the world today.<\/p>\n

In addition to developing the sound and culture of house music, Knuckles would go on to mix records by major artists such as Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson and Depeche Mode.<\/p>\n

Knuckles learned his craft as a club DJ in New York City, then moved to Chicago in the late \u201870s and developed a reputation as one of the city\u2019s most influential dance-music tastemakers. He arrived in Chicago just as disco was losing steam. For many, disco literally went up in flames between games of a Chicago White Sox double header at Comiskey Park, when radio deejay Steve Dahl blew up hundreds of disco albums.<\/p>\n

“I witnessed that caper that Steve Dahl pulled at Disco Demolition Night and it didn’t mean a thing to me or my crowd,” Knuckles told the Tribune. \u201cBut it scared the record companies, so they stopped signing disco artists and making disco records. So we created our own thing in Chicago to fill the gap.\u201d<\/p>\n

Knuckles was mentored by the renowned DJ Larry Levan in the early \u201870s while in New York. \u201cWe would spend entire afternoons working up ideas on how to present a record so that people would hear it in a new way and fall in love with it,\u201d Knuckles said. \u201cTo us it was an art form.\u201d<\/p>\n

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from The Chicago Tribune Frankie Knuckles, house music ‘godfather,’ dead at 59 by\u00a0Greg Kot In Chicago, Frankie Knuckles was called the \u201cgodfather,\u201d not because of any underworld connections, but because he helped build house \u2013 a style of Chicago dance music that revolutionized club culture in the \u201870s and \u201880s and still resonates around the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}