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A history of dance music
A history of dance music in 50 key moments, as chosen by Guardian and Observer writers
Find the Guardian's full history of modern music
21 June 2011
Steve 'Silk' Hurley's Jack Your Body is No 1 in the UK
18 January 1987:
Number 14 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance music
14 June 2011
What would you include in your version of dance music history?
Kraftwerk appear on Tomorrow's World
Bianca Jagger celebrates her birthday at Studio 54
Donna Summer's I Feel Love
Saturday Night Fever
Wigan Casino voted greatest disco in the world
Ryuichi Sakamoto records Riot In Lagos
Grace Jones pulls up to the bumper
Tadao Kikumoto invents the Roland TB-303
Detroit gives birth to techno
Haçienda launches
Frankie Knuckles 'invents' house music
New Order release Blue Monday
Pirate radio station Kiss launches
A summer in Amnesia inspires a generation of DJs
Soul II Soul v the Wild Bunch
The Second Summer of Love
We Call It Acieed banned on R1
The Hitman and Her
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