Donna Summer and Moroder-Bellotte pushed disco’s boundaries with Once Upon a Time (1977), a groundbreaking double concept album. Hits like โMacArthur Park Suiteโ and Bad Girls cemented her legacy as discoโs enduring queen.
Tracing discoโs roots back to slave songs, chain gangs, and swing countercultures, the article shows how rhythm evolved into a movement โ one made possible not by concerts, but by records and multitrack recording.