When Rock Met Disco
The Story of How The Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart, KISS, Queen, Blondie and More Got Their Groove On in the Me Decade

This is such a fun book to read - I grew up outside of Detroit and listened to WDRQ ("Disco Q") every Saturday night - I was too young to be able to go to Discos but kept thinking "If only I were older!" I could still listen to the music and adopt some of the fashions - Gloria Vanderbilt Jeans, Cand......more

There is value here as a basic history of disco's rapid rise and fall, but the author's biases in favor of the form are apparent, and there are some astonishing statements made here, such as saying Saturday Night Fever had become the top grossing film of all time in 1978. With a few years behind us,......more

This is a story of the progression of music in the 1970’s. It is a time when dance music known as disco was popular and dance clubs were very common. This book relates the stories of what happened historically. Some practices such as common homo- and hetero-sexual dalliances in the dance clubs are a......more

My thanks to both NetGalley and the publisher Rowman & Littlefield, Backbeat for an advance copy of this book on the intersection of rock music and disco, the hits that were made, the backlash that followed, and a history of this maligned genre. Not since the riots that followed the premiere of Igor......more

When Rock Met Disco by Steven Blush is a fun read that offers a lot of good information with some very weak analysis from the author, but still well worth reading. One of the strengths of this book is the background leading up to the disco explosion. Like any history, there has to be context, you can......more