He changed pop for ever with the bassline of Donna Summer’s 1977 disco classic I Feel Love. He won his fourth Grammy for his work with Daft Punk, who are among the star guests on his new solo album, Deja-vu
There are some extraordinary photos of Giorgio Moroder taken at the height of his fame. One was taken in April 1979. It features Moroder at his poolside breakfast table: red silk dressing gown, luxuriant moustache, bottle of champagne on the go, trio of excited young ladies dancing around him. Perhaps to one of Moroder’s own records, maybe Donna Summer’s double album Bad Girls, released that same month and destined for multi-platinum success, home not just to three Grammy-nominated US top three hit singles – the title track, Hot Stuff and Dim all the Lights – but the astonishing trio of songs that made up side four: Our Love, Lucky and Sunset People, the first boasting a drum machine part subsequently pinched by New Order for Blue Monday, the second and third glorious confections of hammering synthesiser and softly cooed vocals, shot through with wistful yearning and loss. Whatever the ladies are dancing to, Moroder looks understandably delighted. In fact, he is literally clapping his hands with glee, like a man who can’t believe his luck: a minor Italian-born pop star, specialising in unlovely oompah bubblegum novelties for the German market, who had unexpectedly become one of the biggest songwriters and record producers in the world.
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