Donna Summer
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Donna Summer: Bad Girls (Casablanca)
Review by Mitchell Cohen, Creem, August 1979
‘HOT STUFF’ just isn't that terrific a record, no matter what the charts or current critical backlash dogma say, and it doesn't do any good ...
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Interview by Jim Esposito, Rock's Backpages Audio, 1976
Disco Diva Donna on living and working in Europe; meeting Pete Bellotte and Giorgio Moroder; her family background in Boston and being a rebellious schoolkid, and tells us all about the making of the epochal 'Love To Love You Baby'.
File format: mp3; file size: 66.4mb, interview length: 1h 12' 28" sound quality: ***
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The Concise NME Guide To Electronic Music & Synthesised Sound PART TWO — Synthesisers
Overview by Andy Gill, New Musical Express, 12 January 1980
POMP THE trouble with synthesisers is actually playing them, accepting their status as sound-generators and starting from scratch. Mechanical keyboards were included in early synth ...
Donna Summer: From Sex Goddess to Superwoman
Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 18 December 1982
Donna Summer, once the siren of the G-spot, has grown up to become a wholesome American woman with a religious conscience. Now she's searching for ...
Your Booty, My 12-Inch: Disco Revisited
Guide by 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 ...
Donna Summer: A Disco Queen is Born Again
Interview by Ben Fong-Torres, Austin American-Statesman, 1 November 1981
DONNA SUMMER is a puzzle. She's the Rubik's Cube of pop singers. you might say a multicolored, at least six-sided mystery. She steps onto the ...
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 6 March 1976
NEW YORK: A four-act show always runs the risk of dragging, even when the organisation is as meticulous as it was last Saturday at the ...
Review by Chris Roberts, The Quietus, 23 June 2008
DONNA SUMMER'S FIRST ALBUM of new material for seventeen years doesn't so much announce that she's still got it as knock the door down, stride ...
Donna Summer: Cats Without Claws (WE A 250 806-1)
Review by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, 15 September 1984
TO BE honest I liked Donna better when she talked dirty to me. They may have been Giorgio Moroder records as much as they were ...
Donna Summer: Bad Girls (Casablanca)
Review by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 19 May 1979
I'M SITTING here, the music is actionably loud, the bass is hitting right into the back of my neck, squarebashing on the spot, and – ...
Obituary by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, June 2012
WHEN DONNA SUMMER relocated from the US to Germany to star in the Munich production of Hair, she unwittingly set a course that would result ...
Donna Summer: The Wanderer (Geffen) ****½
Review by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 19 March 1981
A rock & roll road map of Donna Summer's soul ...
Interview by David Hancock, Record Mirror, 7 February 1976
AS THE purring of the telephone becomes a definite ring Donna Summer reaches blindly across crumpled sheets to silence the damn thing. ...
Donna Summer: They're Gonna Put Me In The Movies
Interview by David Hancock, National RockStar, 15 January 1977
Donna Summer reveals all to David Hancock ...
Obituary by David Hepworth, The Word, July 2012
AT A TIME when pop music seems to be dominated by solo female artists, it's hard to imagine that they were once a relative rarity. ...
Giorgio Moroder: Throbbery With Intent
Retrospective and Interview by David Toop, The Wire, April 1992
David Toop takes the pulse of disco pioneer GIORGIO MORODER ...
Essay by Davitt Sigerson, Sounds, 3 December 1977
A CLUB; members are photographed, beam-screened at the door, automatically invoiced. Large, low-ceiling, air-conditioned. Bland diffused light. Gunmetal grey walls, carpets, couches. Easily-read digital clocks, ...
Donna Summer: Love To Love You, Baby (Reprise) (GTO 008) ***
Review by Davitt Sigerson, Black Music, February 1976
'Love To Love You Baby'/'Full Of Emptiness'/'Need-A-Man Blues'/'Whispering Waves'/'Pandora's Box'/'Full Of Emptiness' ...
Donna Summer: She Works Hard For The Money/Diana Ross: Ross
Review by Gavin Martin, New Musical Express, 16 July 1983
DONNA SUMMER has adopted a succession of irresistible role models – the sex Goddess of Moroder's sensual motorik disco, the modern day Cinderella of 'Once ...
Donna Summer: Sermon chanted evening
Interview by Graham K. Smith, Record Mirror, 15 October 1983
DONNA SUMMER is a star. ...
Donna Summer: Last Dance... and Gone
Memoir by Holly Gleason, Rock's Backpages, 17 May 2012
IN THAT FLOOD of ebony hair, there was always that one gardenia. Floating on top of the satiny waves of almost-porn star mane, it spoke ...
Donna Summer: Cats Without Claws (Warner Bros)
Review by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 22 September 1984
LOOKING DARKLY into her TV's eyes and chastizing it as media plasma, Donna sings of its ruptured picture: "From the next apartment we hear music/Bleeding ...
Donna Summer: Once Upon A Time (Casablanca) *****
Review by Jane Suck, Sounds, 26 November 1977
I LOVE Sharon Tate, the Baader-Meinhof Gang, Donna Summer and ice cubes... oh, sod that for a lark. Who'd have thought that a concept (double) ...
Donna Summer: A Love Trilogy (Oasis)
Review by Jeffrey Morgan, Cheap Thrills, May 1976
WHILE WE'RE ON the topic of sexual fantasies, allow me to state for the record that I'm personally into black leather (lots of it; and ...
Donna Summer: Love To Love You Baby
Review by Jeffrey Morgan, Creem, March 1976
THIS ALBUM is to the disco scene what 'In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida' is to rock 'n' roll and what 'Autobahn' is to electronic drone. Side One is seventeen ...
Donna Summer: The Great Rocking Orgasmic Renaissance of AM Radio
Special Feature by Jim Esposito, Oui, September 1976
(Which Considers The Question: Is Donna Summer Coming Or Going?) ...
Audio transcript of interview by Jim Esposito, Rock's Backpages, 1976
Jim Esposito speaks to Donna Summer. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
AUDIO: Casablanca Records' Neil Bogart (1976)
Audio transcript of interview by Jim Esposito, Rock's Backpages Audio, 1976
This is a transcript of Jim's 1976 interview with the Casablanca disco mogul. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 17 February 1976
GETTING A record banned by the dear of BBC is as surefire a way of getting a hit as I know of and it's a ...
Disco Doesn't Have to Mean Dull
Overview by John Swenson, Circus, 16 March 1978
International Technical Geniuses Discover Disco's Possibilities ...
Book Review by Jon Savage, MOJO, June 1999
Party like it's 1977. In the depressed 1970s, one musical movement dared to say (mirror)balls to despondency. Don't get down, get down! urges Jon Savage. ...
Comment by Mark Shipper, Rock's Backpages, May 2012
BY NOW YOU'VE HEARD about the sad passing of Donna Summer or, as she's always referred to, "Disco Queen Donna Summer" – she hated that ...
Review by Paolo Hewitt, Melody Maker, 24 July 1982
IF THERE's one song that Donna Summer should be singing right now it's our current number one, 'Fame'. Tailor made for her, 'Fame' is glossy, ...
Donna Summer: "Love to interview you, baby"
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 8 May 1976
A serious, valid and from the heart feature in the course of which Phil Sutcliffe had 93 orgasms... ...
Donna Summer: Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 1978
Donna Summer's Debut at Universal ...
Donna Summer: Love On The Road
Report and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Rolling Stone, 25 March 1976
BEVERLY HILLS – The question was: how do you take a recording-studio orgasm on the road? "I'm sort of eager to find out myself," Donna ...
Reel American: Keith Forsey's Disco Snarl
Interview by Rob Tannenbaum, Musician, November 1985
From Donna Summer to Billy Idol, from Psy-Furs to Simple Minds, the union of style and raunch. ...
Interview by Robin Katz, Smash Hits, 14 June 1979
Robin Katz braves the heat to talk to the cool lady who's helped push disco to the forefront. ...
Giorgio Moroder: Donna und Blitzen!
Interview by Robin Katz, Record Mirror, 15 October 1977
GIORGIO, Ms Summer's producer, gives the low-down on their sessions in the studio. ...
Review by Roy Trakin, Musician, February 1981
THE WANDERER is disco diva Donna's Inferno, a trip that will take us through her cold hell, up against fiendish temptation and out the other ...
Donna Summer: Bad Girls (Casablanca CALD 5007)***½
Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 26 May 1979
Open wide (Knoworramean?) ...
Song from the Future: The Story of Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder's 'I Feel Love'
Retrospective and Interview by Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork, 29 June 2017
Forty years after its release, the ingenious studio gurus behind the robot-funk masterpiece talk about how it came to be. ...
Banned — Why?: What Turns Censors On…
Report by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 21 February 1976
It's Donna Summer at the moment, but the Beatles, Stones even Lena Horne have all run into radio censorship. So this week, MM examines that ...
Interview by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 3 April 1976
DONNA SUMMER had been asked the question before, but that was no reason why I couldn't ask again. ...
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