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Donna Summer documentary examines the pain behind the disco decadence

In the 1970s, Donna Summer was the undisputed Queen of Disco, a powerhouse vocal talent and innovative songwriter whose lusty, chart-topping anthems defined a hedonistic era.

Los Angeles Times

How to watch the new Donna Summer documentary on HBO and how did the disco icon die?

Donna Summer was a complicated icon – and a new HBO documentary explores it all

Woman & Home

‘Everybody wanted to put her in a box’: Love to Love You tells the intimate, harrowing story of disco queen Donna Summer

Donna Summer’s daughter, Brooklyn Sudano, and Roger Ross Williams chat to Jim Farber about the nuanced and painful truths they uncovered while making a new documentary about the legendary Queen of Disco

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Music, murder and Conor McGregor: 6 great new documentaries to watch this weekend

From McGregor Forever to The Never Ending Murder, these are the best documentaries to stream this weekend.

TechRadar

7 top new movies to watch this week on Netflix, HBO Max, Disney Plus and more (May 16-23)

This week's new movies feature The Super Mario Bros. Movie's digital debut, the most-recent MCU movie hitting Disney Plus, an unnerving horror movie and more.

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‘I was decadent, I was stupid, I was a fool’: the dark days of Donna Summer

In public she oozed glamour, but in private the disco star battled depression, self-loathing and suicidal thoughts. Her daughter speaks about the film she made to understand Summer’s silent struggle

The Guardian - UK

Review: Too much spin in Casablanca Records story 'Spinning Gold'

Aficionados of '70s pop will fondly remember Casablanca Records as the home of Kiss, Donna Summer, Parliament and more. Unfortunately, the biopic about its founder intentionally remembers him too fondly, hitting more wrong notes than right ones.

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'Spinning Gold' review: 1970s record biz tale is out of tune

A gangly, unruly tale that attempts to spin the success stories of Kiss, Donna Summer and record industry executive Neil Bogart into one confounding narrative, "Spinning Gold" is a tangled mess of a movie, a tribute act masquerading as the real deal.

Tribune News Service

‘Spinning Gold’: Off-key biopic spotlights music exec behind Donna Summer, KISS

Film about Casablanca Records founder Neil Bogart enlists singers to impersonate pop, rock and soul legends, and they can’t live up to the originals.

Chicago Sun-Times

Forty years of New Order’s Blue Monday: who inspired it and who it inspired

The Mancunians spliced Donna Summer with Ennio Morricone to make a futurist dance smash – and ended up influencing Rihanna, Pet Shop Boys and Detroit techno

The Guardian - UK

Michael Gove stuns partygoers by hitting dancefloor in Aberdeen nightclub

The Levelling Up Secretary was spotted grooving to Donna Summer's hit 'I Feel Love' at Club Tropicana in the early hours of the morning at the weekend on another solo night out in Aberdeen

Daily Mirror

Donna Summer doc Love to Love You draws on never-before-seen photos and videos

HBO documentary has been called a ‘deeply personal portrait’ of the singer

Evening Standard

"Saturday Night Fever's" legacy at 45

From the Bee Gees to "Pulp Fiction," the music and movie industries would not be the same if not for this 1977 film

Salon

Stock Aitken Waterman to reunite for Channel 5 documentary about chart-topping music trio

Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman – known as Stock Aitken Waterman – are set to be the focus of a new docuseries which will explore the pop music producers' success in the industry

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The Independent UK

Irene Cara: Oscar-winning singer behind Eighties feel-good anthems

Irene Cara’s role in ‘Fame’ and title songs for that movie and ‘Flashdance’ made a mark on pop culture

The Guardian - UK

‘Un-American girl’: how Beyoncé uses the power of pleasure to transcend a country on fire

The star’s new album Renaissance weaves Black dance music history, feminism and queer thought into an ecstatic masterpiece that defies marginalisation

Asharq Al-Awsat

Beyoncé Sounds Urgent Call to Dance on New Album ‘Renaissance’

Beyonce, the paradigm-shifting music royal whose art has long established her as one of entertainment's seminal stars, on Friday released her hotly anticipated album "Renaissance," a house-tinged dance record primed for its summer needle drop. Six years after she shook the culture with her powerful visual album "Lemonade," Beyonce's seventh…

The Guardian - UK

Vangelis wasn’t just a film composer – he blew apart the boundaries of pop

With music that ended up crossing paths with Jay-Z, Donna Summer and Rotting Christ, the late Greek composer’s creative mind was thrillingly open

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Evening Standard

Record Store Day 2022: Date, Release List, and London Stores

Hundreds of records will be released for the annual Record Store Day event.

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