Biography
Disco was a singles genre. It turned an album-oriented era upside down by revealing a simple truth: Sometimes one song is all it takes. That’s certainly all that Lipps, Inc. needed to secure their own legacy in pop culture: “Funkytown” is one of a handful of songs so universally beloved that it is practically synonymous with disco, itself. But the tune didn’t come out of a New York hit factory. In the late ’70s, Minneapolis producer/songwriter St...Read more