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at Friday, May 25, 2012
By Joett
 (Published in Business Times 25 May 2012) -- 


We lost the Queen Of Disco Donna Summer to lung cancer on Thursday the 17th of May 2012. I for one grew up listening to Donna Summer in the 70s, she made disco hip and cool back in the day and we all danced like crazy to her music. Her death—to a lot of us who grew up listening to her music through the 70s, 80s, 90s and 00s—has robbed us of someone we held dear to our hearts. 
However, through us, her legacy shall live on. I was fortunate to have seen her live on stage in London. What an amazing entertainer she was. All the wonderful memories are flooding back to me now. Born LaDonna Adrian Gaines on December 31, 1948, she was aged 63 at the time of her death. She was given a private burial in Nashville, USA on Wednesday the 23rd of May.
Paradoxically, a week before she died, I’d placed an order for the Donna Summer Gold compilation album from the UK with intention to special-feature it on my radio show Boogie on Times 100.5 FM, a show that airs 6pm Sundays. And so last weekend, as a prelude to a full Donna Summer weekend to follow, I opened the show with a couple of Donna Summer tracks (I Feel Love and Last Dance), and promised to dedicate the next show on Sunday 27th May as a full two-hour tribute to Donna Summer; and to invite listeners to request their favorite Donna Summer classics and ALSO to make dedications to friends, family and loved ones.
As you may well be aware, we lost the Queen Of Disco Donna Summer on Thursday the 17th of May 2012. In her honor, on Sunday from 6pm, I will be paying tribute to the disco legend with digitally remastered Donna Summer hits collection from the 70s 80s 90s and 00s. Tune in to 70s Disco 80s Popretro radio show Boogie on Times 100.5 FM, or listen live on stream at www.timesfm.co.tz from 6pm this Sunday the 27th of May.
Attached herewith is a Donna Summer article that appears in Business Times today (Friday 27th May) and on Joett Music Blog, plus the entire Donna Summer playlist for the Sunday show. Please share this with a friends and on your blog.


Sincerely,
Joett
Boogie Radio Presenter
Times 100.5 FM
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  1. AnonymousMay 26, 2012

    Wishing you all the best Tony darling, I wish I was in Dar.........would have listened. Sad for the demise of the legend.

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