The year was 1977 and John Travolta was burning up the dance floor on the big screen. The sounds of artists like the Bee Gees, Donna Summer and the Village People could be heard everywhere on car radios and in nightclubs. Revelers danced the Hustle in places like Studio 54 and The Roxy. The discothque was the place to see and be seen by the likes of A-List celebrities everywhere. Alas, after only a few short years, the disco fire burned out as quickly as it ignited.

The disco era had its early beginnings in the mid-1970′s. It began with the music and soon transformed into a bona fide counter culture. The disco movement began in the African American, Latin and gay communities as a way to counter the long standing dominance of rock music. The main idea of disco music was dancing, and eventually people of all stripes learned to love to dance disco.

At the height of its popularity came the movie “Saturday Night Fever,” with a soundtrack that catapulted disco to the highest of heights. Disco became an inescapable presence in pop culture, but by 1980 people had grown weary of the scene and the shortest music fad in history faded into memory.