Waiting for Hilton to nail what Frankie really meant. Until then, Rolling Stone says:
"Nobody can agree on who invented the blues or birthed rock & roll, but there is no question that house music came from Frankie Knuckles, who died Monday afternoon of as-yet-undisclosed causes at age 59. One of the Eighties and Nineties' most prolific house music producers and remixers, Knuckles is, hands down, one of the dozen most important DJs of all time. At his Chicago clubs the Warehouse (1977-82) and Power Plant (1983-85), Knuckles’ marathon sets, typically featuring his own extended edits of a wide selection of tracks from disco to post-punk, R&B to synth-heavy Eurodisco, laid the groundwork for electronic dance music culture—all of it."
Revisit his own The Whistle Song, Tears, and Baby Wants To Ride or any of his legendary remixes: Michael's You Are Not Alone, Chaka's Ain't Nobody, Sounds of Blackness's The Pressure, Diana's Love Hangover, PSB's Left to My Own Devices, Lisa Stansfield's Never Never Gonna to Give You Up, Hercules & Love Affair's Blind, Whitney's Million Dollar Bill, or Toni's Unbreak My Heart.
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