Donna Summer: Song by Song

By Marc Andrews

Donna Summer was known as the 'Queen of Disco', but her incredible career, laid out in seventeen studio albums, amounts to so much more than that. Besides being a remarkable singer, Donna was a gifted songwriter and an exceptional live performer whose legacy is impossible to quantify.

Starting out as a 'musical theatre refugee' in Germany in the late 1960s, she was propelled to stardom in the 1970s with classic disco hits such as 'Love To Love You Baby', 'Last Dance', 'Bad Girls', 'Hot Stuff', and the undisputed greatest dance song of all time, 1977's 'I Feel Love'. In the 1980s she successfully teamed up with the legendary Quincy Jones and British hitmakers Stock Aitken Waterman, and in her later years she embraced EDM and club sounds. Her death came far too early in 2012 at the age of 63.

Donna Summer: Song by Song examines every song she released as an artist across her six decades of writing and performing, as well as analysing music videos, album covers and remixes, and touching on her personal story and the controversies that dogged certain periods of her life.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1036194213
• ISBN13: 9781036194215
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Fonthill Media
• Length: 224 Pages