Boomtown Rats' Bob Geldof, Tom Osborne and Me - The Fine Art of Surfacing

by Jon Johnston on May 15, 2008 7:39 AM CDT

"I’ll give it an 85 because you can dance to it and I like the beat". Such was the line oft-repeated on Dick Clark's American Bandstand during the disco phase of the 70s. Disco was always the same, same beat, same pre-arranged crap, complete with polyester and wide collars. Wretched, wretched...