29 May 2012 / by Radmila Gurkova

The Queen of Disco is dead!!!

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3zwUBtuieg&feature=related

Donna Summer - the Queen of disco died recently at the age of 63. Suffering from Lung Cancer she became a LEGEND and a leading star of the seventies and eighties disco music.

The woman who transformed the dance floor into a GLITTERING BALL of light throughout the seventies was crowned for her success in making songs such as 'Enough is Enough' and 'I Feel Love' into the Disco Hymns of this era.

This video shows her performing as the 'Queen of Disco'. She leaves behind an incredible musical LEGACY and was the first artist to reach number one in the dance charts four decades in a row... we 'Love to love you baby' !!!

DEBATE QUESTIONS



  • What seventies disco songs do you have on your iPod?

  • Should these type of songs make a come-back?

  • Is music much better today?

  • Do yo remember the seventies?


TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE



17

January 2013
Morgan v Jones - Guns in America
by Radmila Gurkova
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XZvMwcluEg Was it a debate? A BERATING? A SURREAL televised ''stunt''? Alex Jones, a radio presenter in Austin Texas and a believer that everyone has a right to own a gun went on Piers Morgan’s CNN show the other week. Jones has started a petition to deport Morgan back to the UK for expressing his views on g...
Read More...

10

January 2013
American GLOBETROTTER travels a million miles in 2012
by Radmila Gurkova
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpI2L_OQnZo Tom Stuker, 59, passed the million mark on a flight from London to Chicago on December 6. Mr Stuker works as a car sales consultant and has to fly all over the world. He frequently JETS OFF to Asia and Australia, and has taken about 400 flights so far this year.He always uses the U.S. ai...
Read More...

08

January 2013
Bottled Water Ban?
by Radmila Gurkova
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6S0_7OU7G4 The U.S. town of Concord in Massachusetts State has banned stores from selling water in bottles that are smaller than one liter. Stores who sell the water will have to pay a $50 fine. The new law is the result of a three-year campaign by local resident Jean Hill. Ms Hill first told peop...
Read More...

02

January 2013
Music to my ears...
by Radmila Gurkova
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSrdQ8DeaLI 'Happy Birthday' is one of several numbers Cath Gamester, 84, hears on a constant loop throughout the day. The grandmother from Liverpool has musical ear syndrome, where the sufferer has auditory hallucinations...Since it started in 2010, she said she had heard songs including God Save T...
Read More...

25

December 2012
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
by Radmila Gurkova
...
Read More...

19

December 2012
What happened in the Newtown School massacre?
by Radmila Gurkova
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5J0NecLhLA On Friday morning, December 7th, 27 people were KILLED in a SHOOTING at an elementary school at Newtown, Connecticut, USA. The victims are 20 children, six adults, and the shooter. The shooter was Adam Lanza, 20 years old. ''We can't tolerate this any more,'' President Obama said. ''These tragedie...
Read More...

19

December 2012
Will we survive the end of the world?
by Radmila Gurkova
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXLDO8twt8I "Don't come to our 'safe' village for the end of the world" says mayor Believers say the world will end on December 21, 2012, the end date of the ancient Mayan calendar, and they see Bugarach as one of a few sacred mountains sheltered from the cataclysm. December 21 marks the end of an ...
Read More...

14

December 2012
Monkey Business!
by Radmila Gurkova
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mExgZggwFJw Apparently a monkey was CONFISCATED by animal authorities after it was found WANDERING ERRANTLY around Ikea car park on Toronto Canada. The five-month old Resus monkey was taken to an animal shelter but was warm and SNUG in a SHEEPSKIN jacket. There would be no action taken against the...
Read More...

14

December 2012
Little Baby Hashtag
by Radmila Gurkova
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5DoDSijMz0 There are an awful lot of BIZARRE names around nowadays. So it takes something really special to make us stop and do a DOUBLE-TAKE. But this is something really special. Ready? It appears that a proud new Mum has named her baby daughter 'HASHTAG'. Well, that's what she announced on Facebook anyway....
Read More...

07

December 2012
Gangnam Style...
by Radmila Gurkova
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0 How often do you watch YouTube music videos? Have you seen the recent Gangnam Style video? If so, then you are one of around 971m other people! The video to the global smash hit song Gangnam Style has become the most-watched clip in YouTube's history. It is now moving quickly tow...
Read More...
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20