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KC and the Sunshine Band’s Rise and Fall: How They Shaped Disco Without Riding the Wave.

KC and the Sunshine Band’s Rise and Fall: How They Shaped Disco Without Riding the Wave.

The Twelve Inch 160 : I'm Your Boogie Man (KC And The Sunshine Band)

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At the age you were probably playing air guitar to your favorite band, I was playing “air trumpet” to KC and the Sunshine Band (yep, always the contrarian child 😁). It was 1977 and I adored their song “I’m Your Boogie Man”: vibrant, positive, sun-drenched, and utterly addictive. Even today, the first subdued notes trigger a “Pavlovian reflex”: sitting …

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