Disco music Disco is a dance music form based with bouncy, lively rhythms based in guitar, bass, keyboards and drums. It emerged in the early 70s in reaction to the dominance of rock music. It has roots in soul and Hispanic music. Disco was very big in US clubs in the early and mid 70s but was fading out by 1977. Then it got a big re-boot from the film Saturday Night Fever and suddenly the charts were full of disco songs !
For the general public, disco only happened in the late 1970s, but for aficionados, that was the second wave.
Major disco stars included Donna Summer, The Jacksons, Chic, The Bee Gees, Gloria Gaynor, Sister Sledge, Boney M, Earth Wind and Fire.
Disco became ubiquitous and nearly every major musical star had a go at making a disco-based record.
Eventually, it became a victim of its success: it was everywhere and people became tired of it in the early 1980s.
The dance scene then moved on to new forms such as electro-pop and then freestyle.
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