Boogie oogie oogie till you just can’t boogie no more!
Everybody heel pivot! Disco spin! Now everybody grab the skater in front of you. Here comes the roller train! Whoo-whoo!
If you’re too young to remember the disco craze, circa 1979, you’re certainly too young to remember the craze-within-a-craze: disco roller skating.
Yes, that was a thing. A big enough thing that a clutch of movies came out about it: “Roller Boogie” (1979) “Skatetown U.S.A.” (1979), “Xanadu” (1980).
Like all great things, roller disco had its day, then was consigned to the dustbin of pop history. Only not quite.
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Nile Rodgers, one of the most renowned of all pop music innovators, the producer-composer-musician associated over 50 years with such hits as “Good Times,” “Le Freak,” “We are Family,” “I’m Coming Out,” “Let’s Dance” and “Like a Virgin,” didn’t forget about roller disco.
“He’s a hard-core roller skater,” said Thao Nguyen, CEO of Constellation Immersive, creator and producer of The DiscOasis, an immersive roller-disco experience, running June 16 to Oct 1 in New York’s Central Park, that will have a playlist curated by Rodgers himself.
“When we presented this idea to Niles,…
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