Orgasmic Strings and Eurodisco Beats: How Love in C Minor and Cerrone Rewired the Dancefloor

The Twelve Inch 172 : Love In C Minor (Cerrone)

In 1977, I was 14 and my taste in music was starting to shift. I was no longer just hearing music in the background, I had started listening, really listening, especially to the radio.

We lived close to the Dutch border, which turned out to be a blessing. Belgian radio just wasn’t cutting it (as I explained back in Episode 132 on “Love Epidemic” by The T…