The 1970s was the decade when it comes to disco music. People flocked to clubs with their dancing shoes on wanting to hear music that gave them the combination of joy and thrill. It was all the rage ...

This soft rock classic is among some of the best songs off Eric Clapton’s 1977 album Slowhand. “Wonderful Tonight” is a ballad written about Pattie Boyd and was released as a single in 1978. There are ...

If you lived the relatively brief era when it ruled the world in the late 1970s, it’s hard to remain unbiased about disco. For some, it was the soundtrack of their coming-of-age years. Others ran as ...

Gotta have that funk, yo. Yale art historian, Robert Farris Thompson, in his 1983 work, Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy, traces the origins of the word “funk” to the ...

Editor’s note: This story, which has been slightly edited for clarity and style, appeared in The Way We Live section Dec. 19, 1978. Some details have been added from other Free Press reports. Until ...

To the two guys who were driving their Dune Buggy by Dior on NW 23rd from Vaughn to Burnside this afternoon… You know what? The whole fucking neighborhood doesn’t care about your bad 1970s dance music ...