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“Nard and I thought it over and came up with some answers via 'band logic,' not to be confused with actual logic.”
― Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny
― Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny
“The band had many willing girls throwing themselves at us, but I wasn’t interested. I just wanted to read books and practice every chance I got.”
― Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco and Destiny
― Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco and Destiny
“My father gave me a present every time I encountered him. I believe the biggest present he gave me was his gift for music.”
― Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco and Destiny
― Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco and Destiny
“Bernard and I always believed that most pop music fits into the board category called rock and roll. Rock and roll was ever changing, and this art form had different genres of classification for the benefit of consumers, like sections in a library or bookstore. Once any genre-folk, soul, rock or even some jazz-reaches a certain position on the pop charts, it does what’s known in the music business as crossing over, and gets played on the Top Forty stations. That’s the reason so many of us own songs by artists from genre’s we normally wouldn't-their hit songs crossed over into the pop Top Forty mainstream.
When a genre repeatedly crosses over and comes to dominate the Top Forty, what had originated as an insurgency becomes the new ruling class. This was the path disco had taken-from the margins where it started, a weird combination of underground gay culture and funk and gospel-singing techniques and, in the case of Chic, Jazz-inflected groovy soul. But it was basically all rock and roll, historically speaking, as far as we were concerned.
But the media and the industry pitted us against the Knack-the disco kings in their buppie uniforms verses the scrappy white boys. But we never saw it that way. We thought we were all on the same team, even if our voices and songs followed different idioms.
Boy, were we naïve.
And boy, did things change.”
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When a genre repeatedly crosses over and comes to dominate the Top Forty, what had originated as an insurgency becomes the new ruling class. This was the path disco had taken-from the margins where it started, a weird combination of underground gay culture and funk and gospel-singing techniques and, in the case of Chic, Jazz-inflected groovy soul. But it was basically all rock and roll, historically speaking, as far as we were concerned.
But the media and the industry pitted us against the Knack-the disco kings in their buppie uniforms verses the scrappy white boys. But we never saw it that way. We thought we were all on the same team, even if our voices and songs followed different idioms.
Boy, were we naïve.
And boy, did things change.”
―
“Life isn’t about surviving the storm; it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.”
― Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco and Destiny
― Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco and Destiny
