One afternoon in Munich in 1975, a file clerk-turned-chanteuse was trying to create a sexy. Upbeat, downbeat, shrill, comic—it all sounded stale until producer Giorgio Moroder cleared the recording ...

When Donna Summer was feeling all the love from the world as the Queen of Disco in the ’70s, the suicidal singer hit rock bottom. “The most dismal days of my existence were at the height of my career, ...

Summer, who died in 2012, is the subject of a new HBO documentary, Love to Love You. In 2003, she spoke to Fresh Air about the origins of the hit song from which the documentary takes its name. This ...

Review: "Love to Love You, Donna Summer," premiering on HBO Max on Saturday, uncovers the career of the late singer-songwriter and her life outside of her fame. Donna Summer, the Queen of Disco. After ...

Between 1976 and 1982, Donna Summer had more top-10 hits than any other recording artist — she became one of the best-selling artists of all time. The Boston-born singer-songwriter became the Queen of ...

Love to Love You, Donna Summer is not just a documentary, it’s a hymn to the life and times of the indisputable queen of disco. The film conveys Donna Summer’s journey from the gospel churches of ...

Sometimes, when a documentary has a great subject, it can explore that subject with an intimacy that’s arresting, only to treat other aspects of the story with a kind of cavalier casualness. “Love to ...