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Music: Today’s Disco Rock Song of The Day — You’ve Been Dissed by Alan Parsons

“I’m recording a tasty lick you wanker…”
An Ongoing Unearthing by Noah Mallin
Before he invented Dr. Evil’s laser, Alan Parsons was an engineer at EMI’s studios. He’s the man responsible for the crystalline sound of both The Beatles Abbey Road and Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of The Moon. Inside Parsons was a recording artist struggling to [...]

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Music: Today’s Disco Rock Song of The Day — The Beach Boys Track Sand Onto The Dancefloor

An Ongoing Expose by Noah MallinIn the annals of rock bands who dabbled in disco, few chapters are sadder to relate (or to listen to) than the Beach Boys and their foray into the genre. As we’ve already seen the year 1979 would prove a fateful one for many a seasoned musician. For the venerable [...]

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Music: Rock Goes Disco – Dr. Hook, Opthalmologist

Archival Grave Robbing by Noah Mallin
Dr. Hook made their careers as stoned country rockers singing about making it to “The Cover of Rolling Stone” — a song that eventually made their wish come true. Many of their jokey early songs had lyrics supplied by Where The Sidewalk Ends author Shel Silverstein.
A bankruptcy and a change [...]

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Music: Today’s Rockers-Turned-Disco Video of The Day — Dispatches From the Golden Age of Disco Rock

An Archival Spelunk by Noah Mallin
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The late 70s and early 80s were confusing and disturbing times for many in the music industry. For some of the great titans of rock and many of the little titanettes [...]

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