THIS DAY IN HISTORY
The Day the Music Died-1980
Donna Summer Survived, but Disco…not so much
3 min readJan 19, 2023
43 years ago there was division in this country. Jimmy Carter’s politics aside, music was splitting the country in half.
In 1980, Barry Manilow, Kenny Rogers, the Bee Gees and Donna Summer all received American Music Awards. Disco was still pounding the walls…