Donna Summer

Released: April 25, 1979

Songwriter: Giorgio Moroder Pete Bellotte

Producer: Giorgio Moroder Pete Bellotte

[Pre-Chorus]
Love will always find you
No matter where you hide
Love is gonna find you
And it's only just a matter of time

[Hook]
Love's our common hero
It always gets its man
Cause love is so much stronger
Don't you know it will win in the end
Love will always find you

[Chorus]
Love will always find you
No matter where you are
Love is gonna reach you
Cause it's never really that far

[Bridge]
No, no man is a island
We weren't born to be alone
Life is made for sharing
And love is gonna find you home

[Break]
I spent my time waiting
I lost my faith in love
Just as I was hurting
Well then you just turned up

[Interlude]
So never give up hoping
You can't see you around the bend
Well you be sure of one thing
Love's waiting at the end

[Pre-Chorus]
[Hook]
[Pre-Chorus 1x]

As the unquestioned queen of disco, the one and only Donna Summer lit up the late 70s and 80s with flashy, exuberant vocals and automatic earworms. Born LaDonna Adrian Gaines on Dec. 31, 1948, Summer moved to Germany after being cast in a Munich production of Hair. There, she happened to meet Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte, and the trio conglomerated to form a dynamic music team. With Moroder, Summer forged together her first album, The Hostage, which reached moderate success in Northern Europe. Summer’s big break, however, would come later with the release of 1975’s sexual “Love to Love You Baby”, which became one of disco’s first mainstream hits and reached #2 on the Billboard Charts.

1977 came around with the concept album I Remember Yesterday, which featured the Top 10 single “I Feel Love”. The next year, Summer hit the silver screen with the movie Thank God It’s Friday, whose soundtrack featured one of her own the iconic “Last Dance.” This would later become one of the disco legends' signature songs. “Dance” would take home an Academy Award for Best Original Song, a Grammy, and a Golden Globe, and it jumped to a peak of #3 on the charts.

Yet Summer’s illustrious career was far from finished – Summer’s first live album Live and More featured the single “MacArthur Park”, a melting ballad that was a cover of the Jimmy Webb ballad of the same name. “Park” became Summer’s first – and perhaps most memorable – No. 1 hit, and cemented her status as a vocalist as well as a performer. With the track, she became the first female in modern rock history to hold the top spot in both the Hot 100 and the Billboard 200. 1979, though, would really be the peak of her career.

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