Disco Europe Express

Sep 15, 2019

0h 53m

★ 7.0

Overview

Despite its Afro-American origins, the history of disco music, the soundtrack of the seventies, would be inconceivable without a handful of legendary European music producers who conjured up some of the biggest world-wide hits in the anonymity of their studios.

Genres

Documentary

History

Music

TV Movie

Production Companies

ARTE GEIE

Flair Productions

Kaos Films

RTBF

uMedia

uFund

Universal Music France

Disco Europe Express Trailers

Cast

Self - Narrator (voice)

Olivier Monssens

Self - Music Producer

Tom Moulton

Self - Musician

Harold Faltermeyer

Self - Musician

Pete Bellotte

Self - DJ

Bernard Dobbeleer

Self - Musician

Giorgio Moroder

Self - Musician

Marc Cerrone

Self - Musician

Alec Costandinos

Self - Musician

Raymond Donnez

Self - Musician

Dimitri From Paris

Self - Musician

Simon Le Saint

Self - DJ

François Kevorkian

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