10 Forgotten 70s Singles You Need To Hear

10. Boney  M. - Daddy Cool (1976)

At a time when rock music dominated the popular stations, dance music was often considered a vacuous art form. Music purist found the use of electronically manufactured sounds to be the highest form of sacrilege. The guitar was seen as the holy relic of music, and the synthesiser was for anyone too lazy to put time into a real instrument.

By the '70s disco had emerged as the counter movement to rock. Artistic integrity was for the pretentious guitar purists, electronic dance music was for people who wanted to get down and have a good time. And no other group summed this up as well as Boney M.

Now, you could certainly call Boney M. a manufactured pop group. The original line up was put together by German producer Frank Farian, and consisted of three British and Jamaican female vocalists, and a dancer from Aruba - who for the most part lip-synced and busted moves for the audiences attention.

But who's to say that's a bad thing? This s**t was hella entertaining. Who else could make a disco song inspired by a Russian mystic, from the early 1900s, interesting?