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Chic: C'est Chic

Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 9 December 1978

DISCO, THE People's Music, is the modern blues: the truest expression of a generation's thoughts, bitter sweetness with a backbeat. The old blues celebrated the things that money could buy: cars, sex, a measure of freedom; disco tells us what to do with that freedom.

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