Vince Aletti: The Disco Files 1973-78

D.a.p., 2018, Hardback, 474 pages, 17.27 x 23.88 cm

“…first published in 2009, now back in print… In 1973, Vince Aletti became the first person to write about the emerging disco scene… Photocopies of Aletti's Record World columns circulated for years among DJs and music lovers, until they were finally collected in 2009 - an instant classic that quickly sold out. This new edition brings Aletti's compulsively readable disco writing back into print, adding an interview with Fran Lebowitz originally published in the Village Voice in 1990… This book is the definitive and essential chronicle of disco, true from-the-trenches reporting that details, week by week, the evolution of the clubs, the DJs, and above all, the music, through magazine articles, beautiful photographs, hundreds of club charts and thousands of record reviews…”