In an interview with the Guardian, legendary electronic music producer Giorgio Moroder reveals plans for a disco stage show to be held in Vegas and potentially turned into 'franchise'
Giorgio Moroder, pioneering producer of electronic pop hits including I Feel Love, Flashdance and Take My Breath Away, is planning a Vegas stage show entitled A Night With Giorgio Moroder.
In an interview with the Guardian – to be shown as a video and in extended form as a Music Weekly podcast special later today – the 73-year-old producer outlined the new project in collaboration with "a huge American management company". It follows his newfound success as a DJ, and the renewed interest in his work following a collaboration with Daft Punk on their hit album Random Access Memories. He described it as "a permanent show, based on disco … I would do the DJing, but maybe before me we have another famous DJ, maybe somebody after. We of course have a ball, dancers in a cage: recreate Studio 54, and have it in Vegas, Macau, London.
"Of course I wouldn't just use my own songs – there are so many great disco songs, Chic and all those guys – and I would do probably an hour and a half. We're thinking of starting first in Vegas [but] it will probably be a bit like Blue Man Group – they have a franchise. We might even talk to the Cirque De Soleil team.
"I would be playing, and then maybe later on if we had a franchise I would do one a week, or a month, and then a famous DJ would take over. And now you have so many great DJs that I don't think there would be any problem finding the right one."
Asked whether there would be a narrative to the extravaganza, Moroder replied: "Maybe, maybe not. If we would have a narrative like Mamma Mia, that's a whole project that takes a year or two – [whereas] this could be done in a few months. The songs are there – maybe the first song would be [Donna Summer's] Love To Love You Baby, or [Hues Corporation's] Rock The Boat, which everybody says is the first disco song. But I don't think we're going to listen to the lyrics and create a story."
by Ben Beaumont-Thomas via Music: Electronic music | theguardian.com
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