High Energy: Disco on Amphetamines (2019)

6.5/10 • 55 min • Documentary History Music TV Movie

Overview

By the end of the seventies, disco music, considered too mainstream, was dead. But DJs and dance floors still needed new records and faster rhythms. Built on synthesizer sounds, the hi-nrg (high energy) style swept the gay clubs before hitting the charts during the eighties.

Cast

Fancy

Self - Musician

Pete Waterman

Carmelo La Bionda

Self - Musician

Michelangelo La Bionda

Self - Musician

Ivana Spagna

Self - Musician

Michael Cretu

Self - Musician (archive footage)

Donna Summer

Self - Singer (archive footage)

Ian Levine

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