Although she did not enjoy great commercial success in the United States, Amanda Lear remains a bona fide gay disco icon. She was huge (huge!) in Germany, France, and especially Italy, where her 1978 ...

There was once an indelible tension between rock and disco, culminating in a so-called “disco demolition” night in 1979 that devolved into a riot. As the decades have rolled past, however, much of ...