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LOOK OUT, DISCO IS COMING BACK! IN FACT, SAYS MIKE ATKINSON, IT NEVER REALLY WENT AWAY

Over thirty-five years after the music industry tried to declare it dead, disco remains the genre that refuses to go away. Take this year, for instance. There are new releases from Chic and Giorgio Moroder, two of disco’s greatest practitioners. The early work of Grace Jones is being reappraised, thanks to a comprehensive boxed set, The Disco Years. Jimmy Somerville, arguably the first big-selling artist to revive the genre in the first place, has returned to disco with his latest album, Homage.