Euro & Hi-NRG

Disco crosses the Atlantic and mutates: Cerrone and Eurodisco, Boney M., Italo, and the fast, gay, synthetic Hi-NRG of Patrick Cowley and Bobby Orlando.

Part of Disco

18 moments in this segment.

1. 1975-09 — Silver Convention — Fly, Robin, Fly. The Munich group's minimal, hypnotic Eurodisco topped the American charts in 1975.
2. 1977-07 — Baccara — Yes Sir, I Can Boogie. The Spanish duo Baccara scored one of Europe's best-selling disco singles in 1977.
3. 1977-11 — Cerrone — Supernature. Cerrone's dark, synth-driven Supernature was a Euro-disco landmark of 1977.
4. 1978-05 — Sylvester — Dance (Disco Heat). Sylvester and producer Patrick Cowley helped invent the fast, gay Hi-NRG sound.
5. 1978-06 — La Bionda — One for You, One for Me. The Italian brothers La Bionda helped invent the Italo-disco template in the late seventies.
6. 1978-08-28 — Boney M. — Rasputin. Frank Farian's German-based Boney M. made theatrical Eurodisco global with Rasputin and Daddy Cool.
7. 1978-10 — Eruption — One Way Ticket. The Frank Farian-linked group Eruption gave Euro-disco one of its catchiest 1978 hits.
8. 1979-04 — Donna Summer — Hot Stuff. Summer's 1979 rock-disco fusion showed the sound could bite as well as glide.
9. 1979-09 — Gibson Brothers — Cuba. The French-Caribbean Gibson Brothers carried the Euro carnival sound across the dancefloors of Europe.
10. 1979-11 — Ottawan — D.I.S.C.O.. The French act Ottawan spelled it out with the bright Euro-pop-disco of D.I.S.C.O.
11. 1980-03 — Lipps Inc. — Funkytown. Funkytown, one of disco's last great number ones, carried the synth sound into 1980.
12. 1980-11 — Kano — I'm Ready. The Italian project Kano made electro-disco that DJs spun from Italy to the Bronx.
13. 1981 — Patrick Cowley and Hi-NRG. San Francisco's Patrick Cowley built the fast, electronic Hi-NRG sound that bridged disco and the future.
14. 1981-09 — Lime — Your Love. The Canadian duo Lime made some of the most beloved Hi-NRG of the early eighties.
15. 1983-05 — Ryan Paris — Dolce Vita. Ryan Paris's 1983 Dolce Vita is one of Italo disco's most beloved singles, keeping the electronic dancefloor alive into the eighties.
16. 1983-09 — Miquel Brown — So Many Men, So Little Time. A defining Hi-NRG anthem of the early-eighties gay clubs.
17. 1984-02 — Hi-NRG on the dancefloor. Stock Aitken Waterman and Hi-NRG acts like Hazell Dean carried the fast disco pulse into the eighties.
18. 1984-06 — Divine — You Think You're a Man. The drag icon Divine became a Hi-NRG star in the early eighties.