Patrick Adams
John McCready, Counterpoint Records, 2000
THOUGH MANY have tried, its hard to free disco of the negative associations that have shadowed it. "Disco Sucks", they still say. Boney M and Baccara, Syndrum mania and shallow glamour. Its not real music; it always sounds the same.
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