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When it comes to earthshaking songsāthe ones that signal a tectonic shift in the current musical landscapeāthere is "Johnny B. Goode" . . . there is "Good Vibrations" . . . and there is "I Feel Love." A disco touchstone recorded by Donna Summer in 1976 and released on her fifth studio album, I Remember Yesterday, in 1977, "I Feel Love" is one of the most important records in music history, and one of the most influential.
"I Feel Love" topped charts the world overāincluding in the UK, Australia, France, Italy, and the Netherlandsāand was in the Top 10 everywhere else. This record, Brian Eno told David Bowie as they worked together in the recording studio, "is going to change the sound of club music for the next fifteen years." Which, said Bowie, "was more or less right." Except fifteen years was an under-estimation. Even now, more than forty years after its release, "I Feel Love" is routinely featured toward the top of manifold "greatest song" Top 100sāand remains a favorite by music fans and artists alike, with dozens of cover versions paying homage.
That is the tale this book tellsānot only the story of the song but also the story of its all-pervading impact upon the world of popular music. Firsthand experiences and original interviews with a host of musicians, disc jockeys, and dancers loudly illustrate the record's initial impact and its continuing influence. "I Feel Love" still sounds like the future.
"I Feel Love" topped charts the world overāincluding in the UK, Australia, France, Italy, and the Netherlandsāand was in the Top 10 everywhere else. This record, Brian Eno told David Bowie as they worked together in the recording studio, "is going to change the sound of club music for the next fifteen years." Which, said Bowie, "was more or less right." Except fifteen years was an under-estimation. Even now, more than forty years after its release, "I Feel Love" is routinely featured toward the top of manifold "greatest song" Top 100sāand remains a favorite by music fans and artists alike, with dozens of cover versions paying homage.
That is the tale this book tellsānot only the story of the song but also the story of its all-pervading impact upon the world of popular music. Firsthand experiences and original interviews with a host of musicians, disc jockeys, and dancers loudly illustrate the record's initial impact and its continuing influence. "I Feel Love" still sounds like the future.
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Table of contents
- Introduction
- 1. Seven Minutes to Midnight
- 2. An Electric History of Unpopular Music
- 3. Keychains and ICE Storms
- 4. Thereās a New Sensation
- 5. If You Never Pulled a Muscle, You Never Did the Hustle
- 6. āI Donāt Understand What the Problem Is . . .ā
- 7. And Weāll Have Fahrān Fahrān Fahrān
- 8. And Eno Said to Bowie . . .
- 9. The Hall of Mirrors
- 10. Cause and FX
- 11. The Course of the Crimson King
- 12. Disco Infernal
- 13. Remix, Remodel
- 14. Sparks in the Dark
- 15. Are Friends Eclectic?
- 16. Hit That Perfect Beat, Boy
- 17. Iām a Rainbow
- 18. It All Comes Round Again
- Epilogue
- Playlists
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments