There's an idea.. if disco dominates for longer, you could have underground bands like Hüsker Dü & REM break through to the mainstream about 1985-86 to "save rock".
It could effectively be jumping from the 70s to the 90s in one move.
There's an idea.. if disco dominates for longer, you could have underground bands like Hüsker Dü & REM break through to the mainstream about 1985-86 to "save rock".
It could effectively be jumping from the 70s to the 90s in one move.
Maybe the ,King` lives another 10 years at least ? Rap becomes mainstream earlier in Youth Culture ?
How much influence would He have had over the kind of music that was popular among young consumers? I recall in 1985, someone made a video of one of his old songs(can't recall which) to commemorate his 50th birthday, I think the opening storyline had some kids sitting around a school caferteria and someone drives in on a motorcycle. I saw it once on a video show, but I didn't really get the impression anybody cared, at least anybody who really mattered, market-wise.
This was released some time around 1984, and while ten or fifteen years later it could probably have coasted on the lounge revival, I think in the 80s, it just sort of fell flat. Granted, the King had a bit more relevance to the MTV generation(rock'n'roll, after all) than the Rat Pack, but I'm not sure how much.
Not after the Disco Demolition Night. or Disco Demolition Riot
'Disco sucks' and 'Death to Disco' was a thing before that 'event'