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 Andersons Boogie Nights, Whit Stillmans The Last Days Of Disco, and Mark Christophers 54; in a spate of dance compilations and retro productions; and in the general genuflection before 70s style and mores.
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