Disco - Spinning the Story (2005)

With dance music legend Gloria Gaynor as host, "Disco: Spinning the Story" takes a comprehensive look at the evolution of the 1970’s music and cultural phenomenon. The film showcases new interviews with funk pioneer George Clinton, members of Chic, Village People, The Trammps, producer/songwriter Giorgio Moroder, hip-hop icon Kurtis Blow, remix legend Tom Moulton, "Disco: Step-by-Step"® producer, Marty Angelo and even Bob Weir of The Grateful Dead.

Plus there are vintage interview clips with Donna Summer, Harry Wayne "KC" Casey, and Studio 54 co-owner, the late Steve Rubell. Also included are highlights of explosive performances by some of disco’s finest including Donna Summer, KC & The Sunshine Band, Bee Gees, Chic, Trammps, Gloria Gaynor, Rose Royce, Labelle, Hues Corporation, Commodores, Blondie, Rod Stewart and Barry White. As well as artists who inspired and fostered the disco sound including vintage performances by Delfonics, Supremes, Temptations, James Brown, early Kool and the Gang, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes and more. So put on your boogie shoes and get on up!

Starring:

Gloria Gaynor Nile Rodgers (Chic) Earl Young (The Trammps) Giorgio Moroder Thelma Houston George Clinton (Parliament-Funkadelic) Kurtis Blow Bob Weir (Grateful Dead) Ernie Isley (The Isley Brothers) Remix legend Tom Moulton Karen Lynn Gorney (actress, "Saturday Night Fever") Mike Chapman (producer of Blondie's smash hit, "Heart of Glass") Michael Paoletta (Billboard Dance Music columnist) Marty Angelo (creator of "Disco: Step-by-Step"® TV show) Brian Chin (Disco historian) David Wild (Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone Magazine) Rupert Perry (former President of Capitol Records) RuPaul

Songs Included:

"I Will Survive" Gloria Gaynor "Never Can Say Goodbye" Gloria Gaynor "Le Freak" Chic "Good Times" Chic "Get Down Tonight" KC and the Sunshine Band "Heart of Glass" Blondie "Hot Stuff" Donna Summer "Disco Inferno" The Trammps "Lady Marmalade" LaBelle "Don't Make Me Wait Too Long" Barry White "Rock the Boat" Hues Corporation "Car Wash" Rose Royce "Rock Your Baby" George McCrae

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Absolutely one of the most boring 1/2 hours that I have ever spent. There were snipets of wonderful music, but no real music. It could have been great but was poorly done. It looked like something put together with little or no thought. It was spinning the story alright just not the disco story. Giving it a 1 star is overly generous. September 21, 2007

Reliving the good old days.

Forget all the negative comments about this DVD. For the money (buy it used) it's a lot of fun to see interviews with disco pioneers, historical footage, as well as a few performance clips (it is a documentary so don't expect to see a lot of complete performances). As you watch the DVD you may not realize the significance of the people it features. Get Peter Shapiro's book, Turn The Beat Around and look up some of the names and you'll find that this DVD is featuring the "founding fathers" of disco (such as Earl Young - look him up). What more could a 70s child ask for! August 17, 2007

Not a very entertaining documentary about something that is very entertaining

The problem with this documentary isn't that they haven't researched it. Nor is it that they don't have a bevy of people talking about it and how disco changed so much. They have empirical evidence of its roots too. In fact, by and large there is a huge amount of information here. The problem is that it's just not very entertaining. The advertising for this documentary would have us believe that we are going to see performances by a multitude of performers, when in fact, what we see are snippets of performances. Do we really want to see all of the performances that are identified....no, but there is so much time spent on the roots of disco that the actual disco portion is far from thorough.

The DVD extras should have many "videos" (there were none back then, but there were performances from shows they could show), but we only are offered two.

My teen aged son really liked disco until I sat him down to watch this DVD. He was clamboring to leave the room within fifteen minutes. Truth be told, so was I.... May 24, 2007

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Great documentary

A great documentary hosted by an over effusive Gloria Gaynor and featuring tons of interviews with some of the disco stalwarts Tom Moulton, Alicia Bridges, Thelma Houston, Giorgio Moroder to name a few. It really tells the story from an American perspective and if I were to make one minor criticism it would be that it excludes the European side of disco; after all across the Atlantic in Germany to be precise a whole movement was taking place as well artists such as Donna Summer, Boney M, Amanda Lear, were emerging whilst elsewhere acts like Baccarra, ABBA, LaBionda etc were also making significant contributions. Never the less this is an entertaining history lesson. November 2, 2006

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