“September” is not only one of the best Earth, Wind & Fire songs but also one of disco’s most notable tracks. Even in the past decade, it’s been heavily sampled, including on Young Thug’ ...

So let’s begin with the worst decade of the 1970s in terms of popular music – as represented by the year-end top ten songs. Disco wouldn’t be a tidal wave until the following year ...

Meanwhile, its shimmering rhythmic elements found their way into many of the songs that followed ... and Thelma Houston became top performers, finding in disco another language in which to voice ...

Disco is a genre of music that people ... because the filmmakers focused on not just the hits, but the best and the most important songs in the genre’s rise and its heyday.

Paul McCartney's disco song about God feels oddly servile for an artist who was once associated with the hippie scene.