RIP Donna Summer

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Thank you for your beautiful voice! Another legend has passed from cancer.

[1969912 0]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eQOYimLUt4

"Once we got to the point where twenty/something's needed a place on the corner that changed the oil in their cars we were doomed . . ."
-NickDG

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5AztWseIdU

scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM

[BIGUN 1,316]

It was her "Last Dance."

Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

[JohnMitchell 16]

Quite the shame.

Although I wasn't a big fan of disco, she did have some songs I liked.

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I was a dyed-in-the-wool rocker who HATED disco - but I liked Donna Summer. Mostly because I thought she was hot.

Also, I remember hearing her "Hot Stuff" on the dropzone at Perris as far back as 1979, when it was a new song and high in the charts. So sorry to hear of her passing, I didn't even know she was sick. I'm just getting old enough to see that the era of my youth truly is passing away (Levon Helm, Adam Yauch, even Davy Jones) and now Donna Summers. Blues Donna, I'd love to love you too.

Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

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It's interesting. Donna's ambitions were initially broadway. She got a supporting role in a touring production of Hair which went to Europe. It was there she met the people who introduced her to disco and she reluctantly went into it because at heart she was rock n roll. It would have been great for her to do starring roles on broadway because she had the voice for it but I don't think doors opened for black females in leading roles until recent times with Audra McDonald.

[JohnMitchell 16]

I had read that Donna did not want the "Queen of Disco" crown that landed upon her head. She really wanted to sing many other types of music. Beautiful woman, beautiful voice.

Many musicians get type cast. Jimi Hendrix, at the time of his death, was longing to move away from psychedelic rock, I hear, but his manager didn't want to stray from the formula that had made him successful.

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I had read that Donna did not want the "Queen of Disco" crown that landed upon her head. She really wanted to sing many other types of music. Beautiful woman, beautiful voice.

Many musicians get type cast. Jimi Hendrix, at the time of his death, was longing to move away from psychedelic rock, I hear, but his manager didn't want to stray from the formula that had made him successful.

And Jim Morrison wanted to be a poet, not a rocker.

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[JohnMitchell 16]

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And Jim Morrison wanted to be a poet, not a rocker.

Ahhh, that's why he moved to Paris and drank too much.

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I was a total "Disco Sucks" person in HS. We listened to Ted, Aerosmith, BOC, etc. About ten years ago I saw a new Donna Summer concert on sat TV and immediately ordered the DVD. Can't remember what it was called, but she had an Australian gal singing a couple songs on the video. Donna was classy, beautiful, and sang like the superstar that she was is/was.

"Once we got to the point where twenty/something's needed a place on the corner that changed the oil in their cars we were doomed . . ."
-NickDG

[fernjack455 0]

Talked with a buddy from Miami who knew Donna very well. She had a heart as big as the moon, he says. A real loss.