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Disco

July 2024

  • Asha Puthli posing for a portrait in a pink patterned dress

    ‘I sexed it up’: 1970s disco queen Asha Puthli on Warhol, Dali and influencing Donna Summer

    Her spacey jazz-disco almost made her a huge star in the mid-1970s. Now having a long-awaited renaissance, Puthli reflects on working with Ornette Coleman and inspiring young south Asian artists

June 2024

  • Jimmy Somerville of Bronski Beat in the video for Smalltown Boy

    Why Bronski Beat’s anthem of gay culture resonates 40 years on

  • Chaka Khan.

    Chaka Khan review – queen of funk sounds as majestic as ever

May 2024

  • Dua Lipa.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Dua Lipa: Radical Optimism review – ‘psychedelic pop-infused’? Pull the other one!

    The British superstar has said her new album is influenced by Britpop, rave culture and Primal Scream, but you could go mad trying to find the evidence

April 2024

  • Travels Over Feeling: Arthur Russell, a Life Richard King AR_8.1

    Book of the day
    Travels Over Feeling: Arthur Russell, a Life review – down the rabbit hole with a musical maverick

  • American rock guitarist and singer Jimi Hendrix performs live on stage playing a white Fender Stratocaster

    ‘With a Strat you can rule the world!’ Nile Rodgers, Bonnie Raitt and John Squire on the electric guitar that changed everything

February 2024

  • Kanye West at Milan fashion week earlier this month.

    Kanye West sued by estate of Donna Summer over ‘stealing’ I Feel Love

  • Henry Fambrough in 2023. He was the group’s baritone singer, and their most popular hits included Ghetto Child and Working My Way Back to You.

    Henry Fambrough obituary

January 2024

  • Chaka Khan at Royal Festival Hall in London’s Southbank Centre.

    Chaka Khan to curate 2024’s Meltdown festival in London

  • Alexis Petridis

    Frank Farian: Boney M’s mastermind was one of pop’s greatest oddballs

    Alexis Petridis

December 2023

  • Ken Nwosu (Sagramor), Iain De Caestecker (Arthur) and Matt Mella (Lanval) in The Winter King.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: The Winter King; Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution; Vanishing Act; Gyeongseong Creature – review

    ITV’s answer to Game of Thrones doesn’t stint on gore; disco gets the glittering treatment it deserves; Crimewatch meets Kath and Kim in a botched Australian true crime drama; and a sinister ‘creature’ stalks 1940s Korea
  • Rapturous hedonism and breathless ecstasy … Jessie Ware.

    Best music of 2023
    The 50 best albums of 2023, No 4 – Jessie Ware: That! Feels Good!

    Ware’s fifth album is a strident call to embrace pleasure and liberation – and its luxe sound holds up her side of the bargain
  • Larry Levan (left) and David Depino at Trax in New York City, 1989.

    TV review
    Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution review – an absolute feast of a music documentary

    This wonderful series documents the passion and idealism of the 70s music scene. It’s an immaculately soundtracked history lesson – and so much more besides

November 2023

  • FILE - Robert "Kool" Bell, from left, Ronald "Khalis" Bell, Dennis "DT" Thomas and George Brown attend a ceremony honoring Kool & The Gang with a star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame on Oct. 8, 2015, in Los Angeles. Brown died Nov. 16, 2023 in Los Angeles, after a battle with cancer. He was 74. (Photo by Rich Fury/Invision/AP, file)

    George Brown obituary

    Kool & the Gang drummer and co-writer of hits including Celebration, Ladies Night and Jungle Boogie

September 2023

  • Kylie Minogue in a pink silk dress and bright red strappy heeled shoes, lounging back on a green bedspread in a motel setting

    Kylie: Tension review – Padam was just for starters…

    After this summer’s megahit single, Kylie Minogue remains firmly on the dancefloor – and the 1980s – with this largely irresistible set of disco and R&B cuts
  • ‘He sang – and how he sang’ … Sylvester in the early 1970s.

    ‘He was brave and defiant’: the lost jazz and blues songs of disco icon Sylvester

    Years before You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) made him a star and LGBTQ+ hero, Sylvester’s music was very different. His pianist recalls their astonishing sessions together in San Francisco

    • Mercury prize 2023: London group Ezra Collective secure first ever jazz win

    • Funk legends Fatback Band: ‘The US has cultural amnesia. Britain keeps our music alive’

    • One to watch
      One to watch: Kamille

August 2023

  • Jungle

    Jungle: Volcano review – slick, safe and ripe for radio play

    This confident but formulaic fourth outing from the UK dance duo mixes 70s funk breakbeats, wistful guitar soul and euphoric disco
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