Hit Parade: The Queen of Disco Edition
Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia
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Rick Astley's Never Going to Give You Up
The synthesized string arrangement on Never Gonna Give You Up was unabashedly indebted to classic disco. The time was finally ripe for one last Donna Summer comeback on the pop charts. Rick Astley and, by extension, the Stock Aitken Waterman production sound were proudly square, populist, and indebted to disco.
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