The Fabulous Sylvester
Do you know someone who makes you feel mighty real?
Then sing along with the late disco diva Sylvester and celebrate the feeling!
Warning to straight blokes: Video clip may be just a bit poofy.
Warning to those with Disco allergies: Excessive exposure to satin hot pants may cause reaction.
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Update:
Infomaniac recommends this excellent biography …
The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the 70s in San Francisco by Joshua Gamson
I can remember that at the height of the disco boom a girl in our class turned up at the school's weekly disco disco wearing a shocking pink satinex all in one body stocking.
ReplyDeleteA bit too overdressed for an evening of listening to cassettes of Bee Gees songs in the school assembly hall, I think.
Gawd bless Sylvester. What a righteous song.
I luv Sylvester - had the pleasure of seeing him live in a nightclub years ago, awesome performance - the crowd went wild, wouldn't let him leave the stage.
ReplyDeleteRest in peace.
Great song!
ReplyDeleteGreat big mirrored balls!
Did one fall down and kill him then?
Disco. DISCO. *shrieks*
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Napalm for the soul.
Hated it.
Especially when I wore those kinds of hotpants with the sequins that came off and you ended up finding them in your....
Er.
I mean, Disco. Always hated it, never did it. Nope. Uh-uh. Not on your nelly.
*leaves, looking vaguely sheepish*
Aaah! DISCO is still my guilty pleasure.
ReplyDeleteSylvester, Chic, Shalamar, the Trampps, Mc Fadden & Whitehead.
If I still had a casette player I'd dig out and dust off one of my ancient compilations.
Perhaps not, I'd probably break a hip or something.
Disco Tex next, please MJ.
ReplyDeleteI spent my early 20s going to some really awful discos with completely bland, awful undanceable music. I'm a natural show off on the dance floor but that eighties crap never did anything for me and I was like a shrinking violet at the bar.
I have never been to a proper disco with proper disco music and that's a tragedy.
Betty: Ah, the era of unnatural fabrics. I knew this posting would bring Disco Betty out of hiding.
ReplyDeleteFrobi: You saw Sylvester live?! May I kiss the hem of your garment?
SID: Very funny. Mind your bollocks or I'll turn them into mirror balls.
Mikeachim: Sequined hot pants (obviously you haven't met Tickersoid yet) are welcome here at Infomaniac so don't be shy. Come again!
Kaz: Does the NHS cover disco-related injuries?
Geoff: I had no idea you cut such a figure on the dance floor. I'll see what I can do about your Disco Tex request.
That's it, now I know exactly what I'll be wearing at the next steelworkers piss up at the local pool hall.
ReplyDeleteTickers: You'll be the belle of the pool hall.
ReplyDeletenot to be too pathetically self-promotional, but you all might actually be interested in my book, the fabulous sylvester, which came out last year...
ReplyDeletejosh gamson
Josh: I've read your book and it's fucking fantastic!!! Thank you so much for writing such a loving tribute to Sylvester.
ReplyDeletethanks, mj. fucking fantastic: that's one of the nicest things someone has said about it! thanks for spreading the word about sylvester.
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