![]() ![]() ![]() There were some bands for whom disco-rock wasn’t just a dalliance it was the purest expression and zenith of their craft. ![]() No music has ever been more utterly of the night than disco, and that suited the Stones perfectly. It’s the lodestar of the band’s last truly great – although undervalued – period, melding their own lustful whiplash menace with their adopted genre’s glistening, nocturnal allure. It was the way they saluted the format itself, stretching it over eight minutes on to their first 12-inch single. It wasn’t just Charlie Watts turning that wonderfully loose yet precise method of his upon the four-to-the-floor, nor Bill Wyman hanging around in clubs until he perfected the pneumatic bassline that drives the song. Whether or not Miss You was conceived as a disco tune ( Mick Jagger and Keith Richards differ on that), it was painstakingly crafted as one. It was quite another for disco to be seized upon by “the greatest rock’n’roll band in the world”. It was one thing for the Bee Gees, not so long since a mildly psychedelic pop-rock group, to adapt themselves brilliantly to disco and thus revive their flagging career or for cartoon rockers Kiss to join the dots between the glam rock stomp and the disco beat on the glorious I Was Made for Lovin’ You (1979). Here it is: the moment in 1978 when rock embraced knowingly and without reservation the cultural ascendancy of disco. Rolling Stones: Miss You (Special Disco Version) Do the bump … Ron Wood and Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones. ![]()
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