Donna Summer - 1948-2012
American Singer, Songwriter and Actress
Added to the album by Sarah, A Wonderful Woman
She was a queen, the queen of disco, and we will be dancing to her music forever.
Liza Minelli (As featured as Sally Bowles - Wonderful Woman No. 7)
I recently wrote about the sadness I felt on hearing the news of Amy Winehouse - Wonderful Woman No. 109 having passed away a year ago, just last month similar pangs of sadness were felt on hearing of the passing of Donna Summer. A disco legend and another Wonderful Woman whose music has been like an old friend to me.
She sang for breakfast and for lunch and for supper.
Mary Gaines, Mother
After leaving school before graduating to move to New York and join a blues-rock band, Donna gained a role in the cult musical Hair. In 1974, she started working on music with Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte, releasing her first album in the same year. Her first hit Love to Love You was released the following year and she went on to have a string of highly successful hits including classics such as I Feel Love, Bad Girls and Hot Stuff, to name just a few.
I Feel Love remains the best musical representation of sex ever recorded.
@mrparsley via Twitter, A Wonderful Tweeter
It's true to say many of Donna's songs were highly sexually charged and filled with implied erotic meaning. She fabulously exposed the idea of strong female sexuality, as was true of many disco records in the 1970s. Indeed, on the cover of Bad Girls she dressed as a prostitute and many live performances were considered provocative at the time.
From 1974 to 2008, Donna released no less than eighteen albums. She was hugely popular with her contemporaries and received a plethora of industry awards, including five Grammys.
She was a true disco legend and one disco-lovers like me will never forget and will never stop playing her music, her very wonderful music.
God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful.
Donna Summer
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