Greatest of All Time!A Fifth of Beethoven
Walter Murphy turned the opening movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony into a No. 1 disco single -- and the joke only works because the arrangement takes the source material seriously.
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Disco
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Dracula
Tame Impala's disco cut about self-isolation was a mid-chart footnote until JENNIE's remix turned it into a TikTok sound — proof the feature and the trend, not the song underneath, are doing the heavy lifting on the Hot 100.
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Greatest of All Time!Stayin' Alive
The Bee Gees wrote 'Stayin' Alive' for a Saturday Night Fever script they hadn't read yet, and the drum loop underneath it exists because the actual drummer couldn't make the session.
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Greatest of All Time!You Should Be Dancing
The Bee Gees' first true disco single, 50 years old this year, is also the record John Travolta dances to alone in Saturday Night Fever -- a genre pivot that outlasted the group that made it.
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