A new edition of the essential chronicle of disco cultureIn 1973 Vince Aletti became the first person to write about the emerging disco scene. His engagement with disco nightlife continued throughout the decade as he wrote his weekly column for Record World magazine which incorporated top ten playlists from DJs across the US such as Larry Levan Larry Sanders Walter Gibbons Tee Scott and Nicky Siano alongside Alettis own writings and interviews.As disco grew from an underground secret to a billiondollar industry Aletti was there to document it and The Disco Files is his personal memoir of those days containing everything he wrote on the subject most of it between 1974 and1978 augmented with photography by Peter Hujar and Toby Old. This book is the definitive and essential chronicle of disco true fromthetrenches reporting that details week by week the evolution of the clubs the DJs and above all the music through magazine articles beautiful photographs hundreds of club charts and thousands of record reviews.Photocopies of Alettis Record World columns circulated for years among DJs and music lovers until they were finally collected in 2009 into the first edition of The Disco Files an instant classic that quickly sold out.