RIP Donna Summer

[Artemis@BC]

Just heard that she died this morning, from cancer. She was 63.

I used to dance so hard to her songs. (dating myself there!)

RIP Donna, and thanks for the music.

[manhn]

63 is not old whatsoever. RIP.

I still dance hard to her songs. She worked hard for the money!

[Rex]

Didn't even know that she was sick. Loved her so much as a kid. Bless her heart.

[milanessa]

:( I didn't know she was ill. I was never much into disco but she performed a lot in Europe while I was living in Germany (she may have lived there too for a while) and was very popular there.

[IceAlisa]

:(

[Norlite]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG07rYStCjw


RIP Donna, and thank you. We had fun back then and you were a big part of that.

[Cachoo]

There were so many disco tunes that were awful but I thought Donna's music was wonderful. "Heaven Knows" and "Last Dance" keeps playing in my head right now. RIP Donna...

[Fergus]

I literally wore out my 45 of "On the Radio" when I was a kid. :( So, so sad.

[Marilou]

Wow...Way too young :( Her cover of MacArthur Park was one of my favourites.

[VALuvsMKwan]

She and Giorgio Morodor helped make Eurodisco so popular in the US when I was young - danced through the night to so much of their music together and her own with others later.

So sad. RIP Miss Donna and thank you.

[skatesindreams]

Very sad news.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2145891/Donna-Summer-dead-63-cancer-battle.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

The icons of my youth are leaving.

She was a very talented performer.
RIP, Donna.

[Rex]

I remember when I was a kid my mom got The MacArthur Park Suite. She tried to teach me to do the hustle.

[Cyn]

:(

Donna Summer's music was the soundtrack to my budding adolescence - every single boy-girl party in the 6th grade we had always had two or three of her songs played, and we always ended each party with her iconic "Last Dance."

RIP, Donna - your songs will live forever "On the Radio."

[FunnyBut]

So very sad. Donna Summer and Whitney Houston were both such a big part of the music I grew up with.

I used to just enjoy Donna Summer's music as fun songs, but now I think she was an very talented songwriter too. Particularily I think of Bad Girls (the mixing of nursery rhymes with the naughty theme) and On the Radio (which I read was written for Rod Stewart, and was so characteristic of the nostalgic songs he was recording around that time).

[duane]

Wow, this is a shock. I had no idea she was suffering from breast cancer.

She ruled during the 70's/early 80's. My favorite songs are Bad Girls, I Feel Love, and Sunset People.