THE sublime Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte-produced albums by Donna Summer were released on Neil Bogart’s Casablanca imprint, the iconic disco label.
But come 1980, disco was a dirty word, and Seventies royalty was despatched to obscurity.
The famed trinity released only one further album, The Wanderers, a gem of a blissful rocky dance mixed with gospel that failed commercially.
Disgracefully, follow-up I’m A Rainbow lay dormant in Warner Brothers cellars for years. Sales for Donna’s eponymous album from 1982 fared little better, but produced by Quincy Jones post-Michael Jackson’s Thriller, it was for many fans the peak of her career with such highlights as State Of Independence and the Bruce Springsteen collaboration Protection.
This rare CD has exchanged hands for three figure sums, which makes the new, handsome ten-disc, expanded box reasonably priced.
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