Life and Death on a New York Dancefloor

Unlike other forms of music, disco and dance hasn’t always had the attention it deserves in literary form. Whilst rock bands, stars engulfed in scandal and early death and more tangibly obvious musicians get enough tomes to fill a small library, music focused on groove and feeling has only had a handful of truly great pieces.

One of those was Tim Lawrence’s Love Saves the Day. Named after the now sadly departed David Mancuso’s Manhattan Loft parties in the early 70s, Lawrence lovingly recorded disco's genesis from that first party to its seeming nadir in 1979, when the disco sucks movement saw thousands of records destroyed in Chicago. 

It's a life changing read for anyone with a vested interest in dance music, heralded by fellow sages of the genre such as Bill Brewster and Greg Wilson. Lawrence has now finished the follow up, Life and Death on the New York Dancefloor, which follows the first four years of the eighties, and will be promoting the book through two discussions about the period in time with Wilson in Liverpool and Manchester.

The Manchester date is now sold out, but there are tickets still available for the one at Liverpool venue The Baltic Social on Monday 21st November. Find them below.

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