Giorgio Moroder Interviews

Giorgio Moroder: NME (1978) "LOOK, I tell you something very important. Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. "The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious. Disco is music for dancing, and I know that the people will always want to dance.
" Also, disco is becoming more and still more popular over the last year. The big American record companies are giving much money to it. This is very good. This makes me very happy, especially when I know that disco is soon to be the soul and R&B sound of today....

Giorgio Moroder: The New Music (1979) There is a built-in rock snobbism that dismisses all things Disco.
This blinkered view-point is typified by T-shirts emblazoned with "Disco sucks!" This astute observation is usually accompaniede by a feathered felt C.N.E. hat with "Rush" or "Styx" scribbled in sparkle paint on it. An optional jean jacket usually sets off the die-hard and heavy rocker`s outlook with the ball-point appliqued message: "Blue Oyster Cult is God".
Disco is a thing misunderstood....

The History of Rock (1984 - 1985) The Eurodisco Phenomenon of the mid to late Seventies was the work of a handful of producers, based mainly in the West German city of Munich, who crafted a sound that sold millions of records all over the world, and took America by storm.
Most of the artists that these producers made famous were actually British or American, although they had in many cases spent years working in Europe. The producers, who closely controlled their artists' material and sometimes the artists themselves, had a Euro-pop background....