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Your Booty, My 12-Inch: Disco Revisited

Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, October 1998

YOWSAH, YOWSAH, YOWSAH. Twenty years after the dizzy heights of Discomania, the monster is back in our midst – in movies like Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights, Whit Stillman’s The Last Days Of Disco, and Mark Christopher’s 54; in a spate of dance compilations and retro productions; and in the general genuflection before ’70s style and mores.

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