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 | From Chad Bowar, your About Music Editor 2012 has seen the death of some music legends, including Whitney Houston. In the past week, disco queen Donna Summer and Bee Gee Robin Gibb passed away. Our music guides honor these two legendary singers. | |
Donna Summer Passes Away
Donna Summer, arguably the most famous singer in the history of disco and one of the most popular female entertainers of the '70s, has passed away at her Key West home at the age of 63, succumbing to the lung cancer she'd secretly fought for the past ten months.
| Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees Dies At Age 62
Robin Gibb, one-third of the phenomenally popular Australian group The Bee Gees, has passed away in a central London hospital due to complications from his ongoing fight with colon and liver cancer. Along with brother Maurice, Robin was one-half of a pair of twins in the three Brothers Gibb (hence the name "Bee Gees").
| Top 10 Donna Summer Songs
Donna Summer was living in Europe and singing backup for the pop group Three Dog Night when she met Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte. She began recording with the pair, and, after limited success, Giorgio Moroder encouraged Donna Summer to record the demo for "Love To Love You Baby." They decided the demo should be released. It became her first disco and pop smash. In the late 1970s Donna Summer released eight consecutive top 5 pop hit singles.
| Best Bee Gees Songs
The Australian Gibb brothers first hit the world pop charts as The Bee Gees in 1967 with "New York Mining Disaster 1941." A run of major pop hits followed. The three brothers briefly went their separate ways then reunited in 1970 for a new string of hit singles. Ultimately, with the success of music from Saturday Night Fever they became symbols of the disco revolution of the late 1970s.
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