Retro Raunch Revisit

Today is national disco day. If you share my view then you'll resoundingly agree that disco sucks. It always has. I can't stand that shit and the only thing to celebrate about it is flashing the horns up to Chicago's infamous 'Disco Demolition Night' in Jul 1979 (google it), and the style's eventual death. Burn baby burn, and burn it down indeed. So why mention the quirky holiday at all? To drop a little history on that godawful music's earliest & first connection to porn: Before Donna Summer, it was Andrea True who was the first real disco sex queen sensation. She was born in Jul 1943 in Nashville,TN where she studied music and briefly worked in local TV. Her first venture in xxx was in Scandinavia in the late 1960's before moving onto American hardcore spanning 1972-79. During her heyday circa 1975, she went to Jamaica to film some TV commercials for a real estate business. When the government banned all financial transfers out of the country in response to US sanctions protesting the caribbean island's election of President Michael Manley (who was a Fidel Castro supporter), Andrea instead of forfeiting all her earned money (and not wanting to spend it all before returning home) invested in the demo that would become her disco pop hit 'More, More, More'. Burnt out on porn and wanting to break into the music industry, the song became an international hit and having made a full switch into singing, she would release 3 albums. After the first in 1976, the 2nd in 1977 was a commercial failure and the 3rd & last in 1980 saw a move into rock and new wave, with one critic slamming her effectively saying she was an exhibitionistic suck-n-fuck reject who couldn't sing a lick. Ouch. In total she enjoyed mid/moderate success and had 6 singles, 4 of which charted. By 1981 she had quit the adult industry and later needed vocal chord surgery that ended her singing career. But instead of being quietly confined to a dustbin of forgotten brief 1970's curiosos, 2 final surprise shows took place in New York 1994 but plans for a full comeback fell through. In 1999, Andrea was sampled by Canadian one-hit wonder band, Len, who used the instrumental break from 'More, More, More' as their main rhythmic repeated riff in their hit single 'Steal My Sunshine'. In her final years, she worked as a substance abuse counselor, astrologer, and did receive huge royalties from her big dance pop song. Andrea died in Nov 2011. R.I.P. And disco still sucks. It always will.