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Letters: Sue Bingham helps organise a charity event where people of all ages can dance their cares away in a village hall, while Dave Mcglade worries about the loss of spaces for all forms of dance
21, Mar, 2023 @5:42 PM
Lizzo review – a euphoric display of true superstardom
Theatrical, emotional, hilarious, the full range of a multi-hyphenate talent is on show tonight – no wonder she has changed the face of pop
Katie Hawthorne
09, Mar, 2023 @11:12 AM
Forty years of New Order’s Blue Monday: who inspired it and who it inspired
The Mancunians spliced Donna Summer with Ennio Morricone to make a futurist dance smash – and ended up influencing Rihanna, Pet Shop Boys and Detroit techno
Alexis Petridis
07, Mar, 2023 @2:00 PM
The Bee Gees’ 40 greatest songs – ranked!
As their worst album, Life in a Tin Can, turns 50, we celebrate the best of a catalogue that spans post-Beatles experimentalism, elegiac psychedelia – and, of course, disco
Alexis Petridis
19, Jan, 2023 @1:50 PM
Fred White obituary
Rock-solid drummer with Earth, Wind & Fire who played on their biggest hits including Boogie Wonderland and September
Garth Cartwright
15, Jan, 2023 @11:28 AM
The 50 best albums of 2022, No 1: Beyoncé – Renaissance
At last, a post-pandemic party album we could all get behind, as the artist rode her glittery horse through house, disco and ballroom culture to reimagine Studio 54 in her image
Jenessa Williams
23, Dec, 2022 @10:00 AM
The 50 best albums of 2022: No 3 – The Weeknd: Dawn FM
Abel Tesfaye’s luridly spectacular album continued his trangressive and dazzlingly deranged themes with gorgeous, grand music voiced by his depressive alter ego
Shaad D'Souza
21, Dec, 2022 @10:00 AM
‘I wrote 350 songs, and I couldn’t sing you one of them’: disco maestro Daniel Vangarde breaks his silence
The legend behind songs like D.I.S.C.O. – and the father of half of Daft Punk – ruled the 70s then scorned the music industry for decades. With the reissue of his own wildly eclectic oeuvre, he is re-emerging – briefly
Alexis Petridis
24, Nov, 2022 @3:40 PM
Sault: Aiir, Earth, Today & Tomorrow, Untitled (God), 11 review – an act of supreme generosity
The esteemed collective release five dazzlingly eclectic albums, melding rap, post-punk and modern classical composition
Damien Morris
13, Nov, 2022 @1:00 PM
Special Interest: Endure review – jackhammer beats and punk catharsis
The New Orleans band provide a release from tough times with a hardcore album inflected by funk, glam rock and disco
Emma Garland
04, Nov, 2022 @8:00 AM
‘I sound like Lee Marvin when I sing’: Jo Whiley’s honest playlist
The radio DJ secretly hates Jimi Hendrix, and loves disco and music from old westerns. But how did Ned’s Atomic Dustbin change her life?
As told to Rich Pelley
31, Oct, 2022 @7:00 AM
Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep! Why singalong 70s pop was edgier than you think
A new book, In Perfect Harmony, explores the pop hits of the 70s, long derided as mainstream and meaningless. But there was more to it, argues its author
Will Hodgkinson
20, Sep, 2022 @7:00 AM
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