DONNA SUMMER DONNA SUMMER- 40TH ANNIVERSARY PICTURE DISC VINYL LP (RSD22)

Record Store Day 

Saturday 23rd April 2022

Donna Summer gained prominence during the 1970s disco era, propelled by
her incessant and creative driving force behind the genre’s global popularity,
rightly earning the title “Queen Of Disco” and becoming one of the most successful recording artists of the entire decade, now having sold more than 130
Million records worldwide Donna was the first Artist to have three consecutive
Double-Albums reach No. 1 on the US Billboard charts and also became the
first artist to achieve four No. 1 singles in a thirteen month period.
Donna Summer became the first Artist signed to the new Geffen Records label in 1980 and released her first album - ‘THE WANDERER’ - for the label in
the same year. The second album released for the label was this 1982 classic
‘DONNA SUMMER’, which saw her enter new territory, with production duties by Quincy Jones. This proved to be a masterstroke, as the next album that
Quincy produced was Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’.
The album’s r&b/pop dynamic featured a ‘Who’s Who’ of the recorded music
industry, from the album’s lead single ‘Love Is In Control (Finger On The Trigger)’, to the All Star Chorus on the Jon & Vangelis written ‘State Of Independence’, the beautiful ‘The Woman In Me’, the James Ingram vocal harmonies on
‘Mystery Of Love’, the Bruce Springsteen-penned and performed ‘Protection’
and ‘(If It) Hurts Just A Little’, which was heavily sampled in 1999 by Cassius in
‘Cassius 1999’.
Tracks: Love Is In Control (Finger On The Trigger) / Mystery Of Love / The
Woman In Me / State Of Independence / Livin’ In America / Protection / (If It)
Hurts Just A Little / Love Is Just A Breath Away / Lush Life