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I Feel Love: How Donna Summer Sang the Future Into Being
I Feel Love: How Donna Summer Sang the Future Into Being It was the summer of 1977, and the biggest pop song in Britain was a record that sounded like nothing on earth. No drums you could see, no bass guitar, no strings, no brass — just a pulse. A deep, hypnotic electronic heartbeat that…
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Donna Summer: The Heart Behind the Hits — Faith, Family, and the Fight to Be Herself
The world knew Donna Summer as the Queen of Disco — the voice that moaned through “Love to Love You Baby,” the body on the “Bad Girls” album cover, the fantasy the industry sold by the million. But the woman behind the fantasy was someone else entirely: a devout church girl from Boston who became…
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How Donna Summer Created “Bad Girls”: The Story Behind the Masterpiece
In 1977, Donna Summer’s secretary walked out of the Casablanca Records office onto Sunset Boulevard to run an errand — and was mistaken for a streetwalker by the Los Angeles police. That misunderstanding, absurd and a little dangerous, became one of the biggest disco anthems ever recorded. “Bad Girls” — five weeks at number one,…
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The Untold Story of Donna Summer: The Church Girl Who Invented the Future of Dance Music
They called her the Queen of Disco, and she hated the cage of it. Donna Summer was a gospel-bred Boston church girl with a five-octave voice who could sing rock, soul, and opera, and she spent her career fighting to be recognized as far more than a dance-floor novelty. Along the way, she recorded the…