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While big names like JAY-Z, Tina Turner and the Foo Fighters will be celebrated during this weekend’s Rock Hall induction ceremony, a relatively obscure band from Germany is also being honored.
>> i wish i knew. but i'm glad it's happening. ♪ >> what we now know as disco really starts with a band called the trammps. the drummer, earl young, invents the idea of four on the floor with eight on the high hat. so everything is -- ♪ burn, baby, burn ♪ >> that's the sound of disco. ♪ burn, baby, burn ♪ ♪ burn, baby, burn ♪ >> i loved disco. i always loved dance music anyway. because whatever i did as a producer was always danceable. the melody. >> georgio moroder working out of munich put together technology and soulful vocalist. donna summer being the ultimate embodiment. and...
All night. >> why are people dancing again? >> i wish i knew. but i'm glad it's happening. ♪ >> what we, now, know as disco really starts with a band called the tramps. the drummer, earl young, invents the idea of four on the floor. so, everything is -- ♪ burn, baby burn ♪ >> that's the sound of disco. >> i love disco. i always love dance music, anyway, because whatever i did as a producer was always danceable. >> the melody. >> georgio moroder working out of munich put together technology and soulful vocalists. donna summer being the ultimate embodiment and they make some of the biggest...
So everything is -- ♪ burn, baby, burn ♪ >> that's the sound of disco. ♪ burn, baby, burn ♪ ♪ burn, baby, burn ♪ >> i loved disco. i always loved dance music anyway. because whatever i did as a producer was always danceable. the melody. >> georgio moroder working out of munich put together technology and soulful vocalist. donna summer being the ultimate embodiment. and they make some of the biggest record of all-time. ♪ ooh, love you love you, baby ooh, love to love you, baby ♪ >> "love to love you baby" was four minutes of singing. 14 minutes of -- a lot of not singing. ♪ oh...
Elaine Chung The out queer pop star is still a rare thing in our culture, and a fairly new development. In the 1970s, Sylvester, Klaus Nomi and Jobriath were a touch too sophisticated for the mainstream, and Freddie Mercury was as coy about his sexuality as one could be fronting a band called Queen. The fierce queer politics of Bronski Beat and the barely-coded sex-positivity of Frankie Goes To Hollywood made some noise on the US charts in the early 1980s while Elton John still presented as bisexual, but it really wasn’t until Erasure exploded onto the scene a couple years later that an op...