When Rock Met Disco: The Story of How the Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart, Kiss, Queen, Blondie and More Got Their Groove on in the Me Decade

Disco remains the most important and influential musical and cultural movement of the past half-century. Everything since has been an affirmation of, or a reaction to, those pulsating dance floor rhythms.

About the Author
STEVEN BLUSH has written five books about rock music: American Hardcore (2001), .45 Dangerous Minds (2005), American Hair Metal (2006), Lost Rockers (2015), and New York Rock (2016)--and one about Billie Jean King's rebel tennis league, Bustin' Balls (2020). His journalism has appeared in over fifty publications, like Spin, Details, Interview, Village Voice, and The Times of London. Blush was a contributing editor to Paper Magazine. He got his start in the early '80s promoting punk rock shows in Washington, DC, and then moved to NYC in 1986, where he published fifty-two issues of Seconds Magazine through 2000. He wrote and produced the theatrically released Sundance Film Festival-premiered doc film American Hardcore. His follow-up film with director Paul Rachman, Lost Rockers, about great forgotten rock musicians, came out in 2017.