Well, what did happen to disco. 1980, 1981, the recordings started to be really bad. People saw that they would make a lot of money with disco. So the lyrics started to stink. Music and production was bad. Everyone was trying to produce disco music. So ultimately that happened, died, in one month. Wiped out.

You say that there were different functions in the years that were against it also.

Also the other problem was that when disco was working well, it was a lot of money in terms of business. And certain segments of the recording industry started to get hit. Especially I remember seeing on TV, Country and Western, Nashville, they put a lot of disco records in the street and they burned them. They burned them. So when I saw that I said, okay, that's the end of it. That's the end of it.

Who was Neil Bogart?

When I did my recording of the, the Village People, I said, I said, and I said to myself, there is one man, there is one company I would love to be affiliated with, this is Casablanca Records. And the man was Neil Bogart. And so I flew to Los Angeles, and I met Neil. And I have to say that the magic again was there. He was flamboyant. Casablanca Records was something unique. Right there on Sunset Boulevard, in Hollywood, Beverly Hills, the dreams came true. And the Village People with Casablanca Records and the flamboyance of Neil Bogart, yes, in one month, two months, we became known all around America. Neil was the only man capable to understand right away a new phenomenon, the disco. And he was the only man capable to do anything and everything to launch it. And he did it. Not only with us, obviously, the Village People, but with Donna Summer, also with groups like Kiss. Not dance, but incredible group. That was Neil. We regret him, very often I think about him and I'm deeply sorry that he passed away, deeply sorry.

What effect has technology had on the music? Where is it going?

Well, you know, now, or since two or three years is home studio and the technology, we are capable to do recording in our house. But still I feel that something is missing, something is missing. For example, you can't get from a synthesizer a nice and funky bass line. No, no way. You can't get the excitement of the Philadelphia strings. I believe that technology has an end somewhere. And I believe the real musicians are coming back. Because I feel that if you do people music, if you do music for people, you have to give them what they are expecting, not the sound of the machines. The sound of the man's playing for the man's. That's what I believe. Perhaps I'm a dreamer. But really I would like one day to get back to that Sigma Sound studio in Philadelphia and get back to, with the same musicians. And you know what, 20 years later, I'm sure I will do it again, all over, with them.

You know I wrote a song called "Life Is Music". And I really believe that music is life too. Music comes, disco, dance, new beat, house, whatever you want to call it, goes, die, and comes again. Cycles. Now we are in a cycle called techno. Tomorrow in what cycle will we be, I don't know. But there is one thing I know for sure. As long as people are people, they will love to dance and they will love to dance to good music. That’s the way it is. You are born and you die one day, but after you, you have your kids. And the new producers are ready, the new writers are ready, the new musicians are ready. Everything is going to roll again, and again and again. That's life.