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The lost scrolls of disco

Posted Mar 10, 2009

If like us you're partial to a disco ball - read on for news and images from the soon to be released definitive chronicle of disco - The Disco Files.

For anyone who has dreamed of dancing in a different decade - Disco Files is this spring's must-read. Filled with great stories, beautiful photography and classic magazine articles - it brings to life the clubs, the characters, and above all the music.

The Disco Files is writer Vince Aletti’s personal memoir of the disco years and the lost scrolls of disco. The first writer to cover New York’s emerging disco scene, Aletti alerted Rolling Stone readers as early as 1973 to the exciting music being played in the city’s black gay clubs. He wrote a series of much-quoted articles about disco in Rolling Stone and the Village Voice, followed in 1974 with a column, Disco File in music title Record World.

Photocopies of Vince’s weekly review column now circulate amongst the world’s hungriest collectors like the Holy Grail and now you can own them all in book form. From 1974 and 78, the book charts week by week which DJs were playing which records from a time when to quote Vince Aletti himself “when we were all happy to be lost in music.”

The book is released in late April 2009 by Djhistory.com – the first to be published by this website, download store, record label and now independent publishers established by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton, the writers of ‘Last Night A DJ Saved My Life’ and ‘How To DJ Properly’. Copies ordered from Djhistory also receive a limited edition CD.



Source & Photo Credits: www.djhistory.com

With special thanks to the Darling Department

 

TAGS: disco files grace jones djhistory.com rolling stone vince aletti village voice bill brewster frank broughton disco

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