Following on from a discussion about jumpsuit pop, kicked off by my recent Kelly Marie post, we got to talking recently. Offshoots include boiler suit pop (New Musik, The Buggles) but it all began with what Red Scharlach has christened Spacefunk.
Let's think back to the late-Seventies. Dee Dee Jackson was doing it with a robot with her highly irritating Automatic Lover. Eruption had a One Way Ticket and Boney M were on a Night Flight To Venus.
Ming the Merciless collars abounded. Silvery foil all-in-ones ruled. If you were lucky you might get an elaborate head dress. We're talking Amii Stewart, No Doubt About It period Hot Chocolate, Earth, Wind & Fire, possibly the Gibson Brothers, Lipps Inc, Donna Summer and just about every other disco-oriented group in the charts. It was fantasy, pomp, over-the-top showiness looking to a vision of the future we'll never see. It was sci-fi. It was fun. I'm sure Sly Stone started it.
I'll take your suggestions for more, so in the meantime, here's Amii with the classic floor filler Knock On Wood.
