SUMMER: I WANT TO PLAY MARDI GRAS
by John Burfitt
Sydney Star Observer - Issue 921 - Published 6/05/2008
Sometimes, it is not easy getting an audience with a diva. After four attempts to chat with Donna Summer in New York about her new album Crayons, her first studio work in 17 years, it’s now an hour past the time when she was due for the fifth attempt.
Just as it seems a lost cause, the phone rings and the voice down the line is unmistakably Donna Summer, the queen of 1970s disco. She is full of apologies for the delay, explaining a flu had sidetracked her schedule for the past week.
While battling the sniffles, she laughs a little wearily. “I gotta tell you, it’s not easy being a diva these days.”
After 42 years in show business, Summer, 59, would know. One of the main tracks on Crayons is even titled, The Queen Is Back, which she claims is as tongue in cheek as it is making a statement about her return.
On Crayons, the voice that helped create some of the defining songs of the disco days of the 1970s like I Feel Love and Last Dance and the pop era of the 1980s on She Works Hard For the Money is back in all its glory — and it has to be said, sounding as good as ever. She tackles anthems with I’m A Fire, samba with Drivin’ Down Brazil and is in dancefloor territory with Stamp Your Feet.
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by John Burfitt
Sydney Star Observer - Issue 921 - Published 6/05/2008
Sometimes, it is not easy getting an audience with a diva. After four attempts to chat with Donna Summer in New York about her new album Crayons, her first studio work in 17 years, it’s now an hour past the time when she was due for the fifth attempt.
Just as it seems a lost cause, the phone rings and the voice down the line is unmistakably Donna Summer, the queen of 1970s disco. She is full of apologies for the delay, explaining a flu had sidetracked her schedule for the past week.
While battling the sniffles, she laughs a little wearily. “I gotta tell you, it’s not easy being a diva these days.”
After 42 years in show business, Summer, 59, would know. One of the main tracks on Crayons is even titled, The Queen Is Back, which she claims is as tongue in cheek as it is making a statement about her return.
On Crayons, the voice that helped create some of the defining songs of the disco days of the 1970s like I Feel Love and Last Dance and the pop era of the 1980s on She Works Hard For the Money is back in all its glory — and it has to be said, sounding as good as ever. She tackles anthems with I’m A Fire, samba with Drivin’ Down Brazil and is in dancefloor territory with Stamp Your Feet.
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