What's the difference between disco and discotheque?
Disco
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(1) She read geography at Oxford, where Benazir Bhutto (a future prime minister of Pakistan, assassinated in 2007) introduced May to her future husband, Philip May: "I hate to say this, but it was at an Oxford University Conservative Association disco… this is wild stuff.
(2) Gaddafi's residence, now gutted and covered with graffiti, was also targeted in a US bombing raid in April 1986, after Washington held Libya responsible for a blast at a Berlin disco that killed two American servicemen.
(3) Jake Shears – who as the Scissor Sisters' frontman has helped keep disco alive this past decade – acknowledges the near-shock value of all this live performing in the dance realm: "It sounds incredible, like a giant fresh glass of water that so many people have been thirsty for for so long," he says.
(4) Pamela is grateful for the family's financial security, aware that she and David have come a long way together since they met more than 20 years ago at the Winnock Hotel disco in Drymen, just outside the well-heeled Bearsden suburb of Glasgow.
(5) The whole scene of disco-loving Italians, as mythologised in Saturday Night Fever , was exaggerated.
(6) Computed tomography-discography (disco-CT) was the most accurate test (87%) compared to 77% for CT-myelography (myelo-CT), 74% for CT, 70% for myelography, 64% for disc injection pain, and 58% for discography.
(7) Roger Kirkby: Best delay ever was the disco demolition at the White Sox game in between a double header, White Sox forfeited the second game 9 - 0 If a team ever did this, but with Bruce Springsteen albums, I would become their biggest fan.
(8) After so long being derided, is this disco's revenge?
(9) In order to understand the role of disco in establishing this connection, we isolated and characterized the disco gene.
(10) The hit single "Around the World" displayed a then-unfashionable love of disco which attracted the attention of Chic guitarist Nile Rodgers.
(11) They were shot at a disco at midnight; by 11am the print was up on the wall.
(12) Some of the discos – or “pipers” as they were locally known, in homage to Rome’s legendary Piper nightspot – were visibly influenced by Andy Warhol’s multimedia experiments at the Dom nightclub in Manhattan, home to the Exploding Plastic Inevitable events, where the Velvet Underground would play amid lightshows, dancers and projections of Warhol’s films.
(13) Though she will be remembered for disco classics such as Love to Love You Baby and I Feel Love, Donna Summer , who has died of cancer aged 63, notched up many achievements in a career lasting more than 40 years.
(14) The worst previous attack on US soldiers in Germany was in 1986, when a bomb was planted in a Berlin disco.
(15) When prompted with the question, “That’s not a no though?”, Prince replied, “No.” Later that night, Prince turned up at the one-time roller disco in north London to play a set to a few dozen elated journalists and, towards the end of the show, a swarm of even more elated fans.
(16) I've known them both since my first play, Disco Pigs , some 17 years ago, when we were drinking in Edinburgh's Traverse bar and pulling shapes in Stockbridge.
(17) There’s a lot of focus on robotisation, with anthropomorphic white creatures now capable of disco dancing in unison .
(18) Our office bearer has a hi-fi in that studio office and is as likely to be playing the new 45 from the hardcore band Leather or electro drone by Tim Hecker as he is to be playing a deep cut of Cincinnati soul or handbag disco or improv guitar noodlings, whether newly released from Oren Ambarchi or 30 years old from the Takoma label.
(19) Knuckles, who is credited to have invented the house genre, begun his residency at the westside club in 1977 at the height of disco fever, but by 1980 a backlash had swept the craze away.
(20) When the Disco Sucks backlash killed the disco movement, Knuckles evolved his sound, making reel-to-reel re-edits for the Warehouse crowd.