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The Queen and Her Crayons: An Interview With Donna Summer

by Christian John Wikane

[20.May.08] :. Donna Summer colors outside the lines on Crayons, drawing the arch of an iridescent rainbow. Guess what her favorite color is.

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Various Artists: Disco Deutschland

by John Bergstrom

[16.Oct.07] :. Music buff Stefan Kassel rounds up some German disco rarities. Save for a few tracks, it's a reminder of why disco deserved and deserves to be hated.

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Boz Scaggs, Silk Degrees (1976)

by Paul Pearson

[8.Jun.07] :. The former Steve Miller Band sideman teams up with the musicians who would become Toto to enact the birth of the smooth.

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A Long Way from Wonderland

by Christian John Wikane

[11.Apr.07] :. In 1980, Donna Summer walked away from disco's strobe-lit boogie wonderland on The Wanderer. Critics embraced her bold statement; audiences less so. Where exactly was Summer going?

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