Donna Summer was the ultimate Queen of Disco, but her reason for being so came down to a chart record that handed her the title of disco's best album.

The 1970s was an interesting time in regard to how ... R&B was used as an all-encompassing term to group the styles of soul, funk, and disco. Not only did this era emerge different subgenres ...

The 1970s. What a weird time in music. There was metal, post-punk, and disco, and then sometimes they ... parlayed themselves into meticulous rock songs that other bands did not make the same ...

Disco, punk, metal, prog-rock ... Here are my 10 underrated songs of the 1970s — songs you may not know or may not fully appreciate, but each in their own way were important to the decade.

So let’s begin with the worst decade of the 1970s in terms of popular music – as represented by the year-end top ten songs. Disco wouldn’t be a tidal wave until the following year ...

By Clay Risen Gwen McCrae, whose gospel-infused R&B hits of the early 1970s ... known songs through TK Records, a regional powerhouse founded by Henry Stone that counted other proto-disco acts ...