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February 11, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

What A Good Score! – #8: Saturday Night Fever by Various Artists

The soundtrack to the movie Saturday Night Fever is one of the greatest-selling soundtrack albums of all time! It also – as if this is a surprise, given the number of people who have bought it over the years – happens to be very good. It is one of those moment-capturing slices of pop-culture. Saturday Night […]

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July 16, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 668

The Trammps, Where The Happy People Go (1976) So in love with The Trammps and in particular the Disco Inferno album/song I wrote this short story from the point of view of the hi-hat in that song. Um, yeah, well maybe that’s only for me to get, and so be it…but I also got this: […]

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November 10, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 996

The Trammps, Disco Inferno (1976) It started with the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever – that was all I knew of The Trammps – and for the longest while all I needed to know, that super-charged version of Disco Inferno. I’m so obsessed with that song, that groove, that I once (not that long ago […]

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May 30, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Short Story: Careful How You Position That Microphone!

“It was like running middle-distance as a sprint, all the while some dude is beating you on the top of your head. You’re trying to run, yo – but he be catchin’ ya with that closed fist every time. And it’s making ya sweat, dog. And it hurts. But it starts to hurt a little […]