THIS DAY IN HISTORY

The Day the Music Died-1980

Donna Summer Survived, but Disco…not so much

Aslynn Roe 🐈
3 min readJan 19, 2023

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Photo by Matthew LeJune on Unsplash

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…

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Aslynn Roe 🐈

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