Ottawan: . [Full Album + Bonus] (1980)

Whilst most people of a certain age will know ., few people know that this infectious song actually started as a protest song. Songwriter, producer and mastermind behind the Gibson Brothers, Daniel Vangarde, had watched the news of the Disco Demolition Night in Chicago in July 1979 and been absolutely disgusted and horrified: “When they burned disco records in America, it was like Nazi Germany burning books with Jewish writers – those books are still read today. And disco still survives today, and is stronger than ever. The people burning those records were like Trump fans now; it was a homophobic and racist movement. Disco was music made by gay and black people, so these stupid prejudiced people wanted to use their songs to attack them. So I did ‘’ as a retaliation to say, ‘We’ll see if disco is dead…’.” ’Fronting the project was Guadeloupe-born Patrick Jean-Baptiste and Annette Eltice. Released in November 1979, the nursery-rhyme . set the European charts alight, although it