I'm gonna go with 1978 as the "Best Year In Disco" for me, personally.
The Euro influence was blending with the US styles. The genre had become refined in it's overall sound, but there were still variations going on. The formula wasn't completely in place...just yet.
It had gone Global, but the floodgates hadn't opened...just yet. To those of us who'd been in the scene from the start (say...'73-74ish), there was still a feeling of it being ours. Does that sound imperious or a tad "elitist"? It should. It is. And I make no apologies for the truth. By '79, we'd become faces <gasp!> within the crowd. That was a big blow, to the collective Egos of a lot of people who were, just a couple years prior, considered on the cutting edge, or avant-garde. By late '78, the socio-economic conditions that compelled the need for the Disco scene, had all but disappeared. The trend was all that was left.
A good comparison would be how the "Punk" crowd of the late 70's felt, when the 80's came along and their sound broke-out, got watered-down and dissolved into New Wave. I believe it was Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols, who summed this up perfectly in an interview: (forgive me for any paraphrasing) In the beginning, the kids in the UK-Punk scene were aggressive and rebellious, because they had serious socio-economic issues to rebel against. Their anger, or rage, was justified, but had nowhere to go, except into their music. But, by the time they got to touring the US, they found crowds of kids who were aggressive simply for aggression's sake. Their anger, or rage, was neither real, nor justified. The "angry youth" was, by then, merely fashionable.



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Dance music had never been bigger here than in the 80s - later on there was Imagination, Phil Fearon, Freeez, KID, Princess and all the 'hi-nrg' acts like Evelyn Thomas, Miquel Brown & Hazell Dean, and all the pop/dance stuff like ABC, Frankie, New Order and Human League (& US acts such as Kool & The Gang, Divine & Shalamar were at their peak here in the 80s). Oh no, in the UK disco/dance never died, it was just coming alive.:icon_smile:

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