BLOG
ILOVEDISCO BLOG
‘Telebiella’: the history of music passes through here
Telebiella is a television broadcaster, originally via cable, created in 1972 by Giuseppe Sacchi known as Peppo, former director of RAI, in a former boarding school located in the center of Biella. The broadcaster was the second private Italian television to break the...
ILD Tribute to Whitney Houston
At that hour we were dancing, and at that hour, midnight and 55 minutes, the news of the death of pop queen Whitney Houston was spread across the ocean. She was only 48 years old and she was in Los Angeles, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel and to the utmost of fate she...
Remembering the myth of Pop Art: Andy Warhol
Dear Discolovers today we remember an artist who was a symbol, an icon, a myth of art and the 70s: Andy Warhol. Yesterday was in fact the 25th anniversary of the death of this great artist who died in New York on February 22, 1987 following a gallbladder surgery. The...
Our greetings to the great Lucio Dalla
He died far from his Bologna, in Montreaux in Switzerland, where he was for a series of concerts. He would have turned 69 on March 4th. Lucio Dalla, who had just participated in the Sanremo Festival, was one of the most successful Italian songwriters and his career is...
History of a myth: the FIAT 500
Who does not know the legendary "500"? Its origins lead us to the “Topolino” designed by engineer Dante Giacosa, a car which, produced in 1936, was immediately a huge success. It was produced until 1956. The New 500 was born only in 1957 and remained in production...
The radio and free radios
A well-known song by Eugenio Finardi celebrates the phenomenon of “Free but truly free Radio”. In Florence many radios will come to life but some will remain engraved in everyone's memory for having taught many how to really make radio !!! So I will start with the one...
I Love Disco recalls Nickolas Ashford
Nickolas Ashford has become part of the myths of music. He was 70 years old; author, among other things, of "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" and "I'm Every Woman" written and performed together with his wife Valerie Simpson. Born in 1941 in South Carolina, Ashford met...
From disco music to today: Kool and the Gang
The band " Kool & The Gang ", with one hundred million records sold, is among the most famous in the history of music. Kool & The Gang originated as a group in 1964, their music influenced three generations with a unique blend of Jazz, Soul and Funk . How not...
A star has fallen: a salute to Amy Winehouse
I LOVE DISCO will not tell you how she died but how she lived.Amy Jade Winehouse was born on September 14, 1983 in Enfield, Middlesex, England. Amy has such an extraordinary talent that at just 10 she founds her first group, at thirteen she receives her first guitar...
The disco girl: the adorable Heather Parisi
The little girl was born under the sign of Aquarius, on January 27, 1960 in Los Angeles. Most likely it is her mother, a dancer with distant Italian origins, who passed on the dance gene to her. Between the ages of twelve and eighteen he collected prizes and...