HBO Original documentary Love to Love You, Donna Summer is a deeply personal portrait of the iconic artist. The film features a wealth of photographs and never-before-seen home video footage – often shot by Summer herself. The film is available to @streamonmax #lovetoloveyoudoc
Summer Friday Who’s that lady? Circa May 1977
Dim all the lights 💡
The collection goes live online for auction at @christiesinc until June 29th. Thank you @peter.klarnet and @chrisjune26 for helping with the curation of the items. From @amandasudanoramirez “The collection is such a fun portrayal of my mom’s artistry, creativity, joy, and story.” Link in stories 💕
Summer season ☀️
1997 ✨
1997 ✨
Donna Summer’s ‘Another Place & Time’ is out today! 🪩🎤 Enjoy this quintessential project in an array of fun formats including a special zoetrope picture disc featuring elements from the ‘This Time I Know It’s For Real’ promo video with a continuous dancing effect. 💃🕺 Also available in as a 2CD edition in deluxe gatefold packaging and a 180g half-speed master edition – out now! 🔗 https://dsummer.lnk.to/APAT
Summer fever ✨
Do you feel 💙?
“I Feel Love” 😍😍😍 Donna Summer’s latest official animated music video is out now! Watch it at the link in bio.
“I always knew…” ✨🥹
Coming soon 👀🪩💙
It’s a bad girl summer. Love to Love You, Donna Summer is streaming on @StreamOnMax.
On this day in 1975, the @officialdonnasummer album ‘Love to Love You Baby’ was released! 📷: Anwar Hussein/Getty Images 📷: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images 📷: Ginny Winn/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images #DonnaSummer
On this day in 1975, the @officialdonnasummer album ‘Love to Love You Baby’ was released! 📷: Anwar Hussein/Getty Images 📷: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images 📷: Ginny Winn/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images #DonnaSummer
On this day in 1975, the @officialdonnasummer album ‘Love to Love You Baby’ was released! 📷: Anwar Hussein/Getty Images 📷: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images 📷: Ginny Winn/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images #DonnaSummer
On this day in 1975, the @officialdonnasummer album ‘Love to Love You Baby’ was released! 📷: Anwar Hussein/Getty Images 📷: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images 📷: Ginny Winn/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images #DonnaSummer
On this day in 1975, the @officialdonnasummer album ‘Love to Love You Baby’ was released! 📷: Anwar Hussein/Getty Images 📷: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images 📷: Ginny Winn/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images #DonnaSummer
Celebrating “Bad Girls” at number 1 week 4 – Throwback to when Donna performed “Bad Girls” on her 1980 ABC Special featuring Twiggy during the performance
Co-Director @BrooklynSudano caught up with @uDiscoverMusic during the star-studded L.A. premiere of Love to Love You, Donna Summer now streaming on @hbo ✨ Tap the link in bio to watch the full recap to see what a few of your faves had to say about the film!#LoveToLoveYouDoc 📺
Manuscript lyrics for ‘On The Radio’ 📻 ✨ ‘On the Radio’, which became Donna Summer’s tenth top-ten hit in the United States on its release in February 1980. Giorgio Moroder had composed the underlying music the previous year and had given it to Donna Summer to compose the lyrics. For guidance, she asked Moroder if he had any thoughts on song’s theme, and she recalled him replying, “something with the radio.” Over several weeks she made numerous attempts to compose the lyrics, but with no luck. One day in the studio she was sitting at the piano working on another song when she noticed that “Stephen Bishop’s record was on the top of the piano.” She recalled the writing they had done together in the past, and she asked herself, “how would Stephen say this? What line would he come up with – he’s so clever. And all of a sudden, this one line came to me, and it was must have fallen out of a hole in your old brown overcoat, and it was like a lightning bolt. OK, that’s it. I knew who the person was. I knew who the person was in the song, I knew who she needed to be, I knew what she was going through, I knew what had to be said. And so as soon as I got all of the personal information on the character, I was able to go into the studio, stand on the microphone and sing the song pretty much verbatim, the way you hear it. That is – you know, I don’t know how many takes I did that day, but I don’t think I did very many, and I think I got most of the song in the first take, so, you know, it was about having that story in my psyche and being able to go on there and sing it from that person’s perspective, and once I got the perspective, I was ridin’.” (Interview with Terri Gross on Fresh Air, NPR, 2003).
