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Disco Legends On One Stage For 40 Years Of Disco Arena Tour 2018

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Disco originated in the early 1970s in New York, has ruled the charts and driven masses to the dance floor ever since and is as popular as ever now. In 1977 Studio 54 was famous for featuring Disco music and the 'Disco Fever' album spent 6 weeks at No.1 the same year, ‘Native New Yorker’ by Odyssey became one of the first major disco hits. By the following year, the ‘Saturday Night Fever’ album spent at incredible 18 weeks at No. 1 only to be knocked off the spot by Boney M with their album ‘Night Flight To Venus’ (which also spent 4 weeks at No.1). The ‘Best Disco Album In The World’ spent 6 weeks at No. 1. the same year. Two of those successful groups, Odyssey and Boney M will be joining five of the most legendary disco acts who will be coming together for the first time to form the '40 Years of Disco' UK arena tour with live concerts in March 2018. The other icons performing include Sister Sledge, Tavares, Rose Royce, The Real Thing and George McCrae.  
The 40 years of Disco tour will take place in 4 arenas across the UK starting at Leeds First Direct Arena on 15th March and culminate on 18th March at Liverpool’s Echo Arena.  
SISTER SLEDGE: 
Remember 'We Are Family?' Sister Sledge sold millions of records worldwide with the album of the same name which earned them multi-platinum status for sales in excess of two million in the USA alone and going gold in several other countries.  They also had many other famous disco anthems including ‘Lost In Music’, ‘Thinking Of You’, ‘He’s The Greatest Dancer’ and the No.1 ‘Frankie’. At present Sister Sledge consist of original members Debbie and Kim alongside Tanya (niece of one of the original members). 
TAVARES:
They won a Grammy Award for their work on the soundtrack to ‘Saturday Night Fever’ that was recently certified 15 times platinum. They had their biggest US hit, ‘It Only Takes a Minute’ in 1975 (covered by Take That in the 90s and sampled by Jennifer Lopez.)  This was followed by a string of hits including ‘Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel’, ‘Don’t Take Away The Music’, ‘Whodunnit’, ‘More Than A Woman’, ‘One Step Away’, ‘The Ghost Of Love’ and ‘The Mighty Power Of Love’. 
This year Tavares performed on the CBS Television Special “Stayin’ Alive”, a musical salute to The Bee Gee’s where they performed a duet with R&B star Jason Derulo on ‘More Than a Woman’.  
ROSE ROYCE:
They had a massive hit with ‘Car Wash’ from the album soundtrack of the 1976 movie 'Car Wash' which starred Richard Pryor and George Carlin.  The 2 million selling soundtrack gave them further hits ‘I Wanna Get Next To You’ and ‘I’m Going Down’. The follow-up album 1977’s ‘In Full Bloom’ featured the hits ‘Wishing On A Star’, ‘Do Your Dance’ and ‘Ooh Boy’, going platinum. Their third album ‘Rose Royce Strikes Back’ (1978) featured the killer ballads ‘I’m In Love (and I Love the Feeling)’ and ‘Love Don’t Live Here Anymore’. Rose Royce's greatest hits album reached the No.1 spot on two separate occasions in 1980 spending 34 weeks on the chart.  Many major stars have covered their hits including Mary J Blige & Madonna who did a heart-breaking version of ‘Love Don’t Live Here Anymore’.  
BONEY M
They are renowned for their massive worldwide hits with songs such as ‘Daddy Cool’, ‘Sunny’, ‘Ma Baker’, ‘Rasputin’, ‘Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday’, ‘Belfast’ and Painter Man’. ‘Rivers of Babylon’/’Brown Girl In The Ring’ is the 7th biggest selling single of all time in the UK, selling over 2 million copies and reached No. 1 for 5 weeks and stayed in the charts for an astounding 40 weeks. The band also had the Christmas No.1 that year with ‘Mary’s Boy Child’, which is No.10 in the biggest selling singles of all time, selling in excess of 1.8 million copies. They are also the only act to have 2 all-time best sellers in the Top 10! This line-up features original member Maizie Williams. 
THE REAL THING:
The multi-million selling soul band features their three original vocalists Eddie Amoo, Chris Amoo and Dave Smith who are celebrating the 40th anniversary of their debut hit single ‘You To Me Are Everything’ this year.  The single reached No 1 in the UK. The trio has sold over 3 million singles that also include the hits ‘Can’t Get by Without You’, ‘Whenever You Want My Love’ and ‘Can You Feel The 
Force’.   
ODYSSEY:
One of the most successful soul/disco acts of their era that culminated in the early 1980’s when they topped the UK charts with ‘Use It Up And Wear It Out’.  They scored several other Top Ten hits in Britain and throughout the world. From their debut album emerged their first smash single – ‘Native New Yorker’, an international hit late in 1977. After that the hits then came thick and fast - the long-running ballad ‘If 
You’re Looking For A Way Out’, a brilliant re-working of the Lamont Dozier classic ‘Going Back To My Roots’ and ‘Inside Out’ amongst others. 
GEORGE McCRAE:
He was a big mover on the early disco front. Disco kings Harry Casey and Richard Finch of KC & The Sunshine Band both produced and wrote his output with McCrae securing a hit on his first try with "Rock Your Baby," it topped charts in 1974 around the world. Other hits include It’s Been So Long’, ‘I Ain’t Lying’ & ‘I Can't Leave You Alone’. 
MARCH 2018 
Thurs 15th LEEDS - First Direct Arena 0844 248 1585 
Fri 16th LONDON - The SSE Arena, Wembley 0844 815 0815 
Sat 17th BIRMINGHAM - Genting Arena 0844 33 88222   
Sun 18th LIVERPOOL - Echo Arena 
Tickets are available now


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