TMZ, the definitive source for celebrity deaths, is reporting that Donna Summer, the “Queen of Disco,” has died from breast lung cancer. She was 63.
Sources close to Summer tell us … the singer was trying to keep the extent of her illness under wraps. We spoke to someone who was with Summer a couple of weeks ago … who says she didn’t seem too bad. In fact, we’re told she was focused on trying to finish up an album she had been working on…We’re told Summer was in Florida at the time of her death.
Summer was the subject of controversy back in the 80s when she condemned homosexuality after becoming a born-again Christian. She was quoted at the time as saying that AIDS was “God’s retribution” for the “sinful lifestyle” gay people — who played a big part in propelling her to fame — led. She later apologized for those remarks and performed at numerous benefits for gay and lesbian causes.
Here’s her video for “She Works Hard For The Money”…
And “Last Dance”…
Oh, and one more, “On the Radio”…
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If the RHCP cover you, you must be pretty important: [youtu.be]
DS’s alleged remarks about homosexuality are a well-known urban myth. It’s never been clear where they she supposedly said them and she’s always denied it–even threatened to sue New York magazine after they reprinted the allegations as fact.
Oh, and her family is saying it was lung cancer. And it wasn’t even from smoking, either: [music.msn.com]
Ugh. Do your freaking research.
Ugh. Do your freaking research.
Hey fuckface…this is a blog/website on the internet, and when someone of note in a field, for lack of a better term, that a person running a blog/website covers dies, the internet audience that person serves demands information about the death swiftly. That’s just the way it is.
Unfortunately, that doesn’t leave a lot of time for extensive research like, say, the 36 hours or so since Donna Summer’s death you’ve had to dig around in the biographical minutiae of her life and then come in here and act like a FUCKING ASSHOLE and nit-pick about the details I provided in the post, which were generated entirely by memory recall and roughly 5 minutes of frantic Googling, BECAUSE THAT’S ABOUT ALL THE TIME I HAD, FUCKFACE.
Now here’s the flip side: had I actually taken like, say, a couple of hours to properly fact-check everything I wrote, you or someone of your prickish ilk for sure would have come into the comments and said something along the lines of, “Um, a little late with this, no?” or “Way to be on top of things, Cajun Boy.”
So basically what I’m trying to say is that maybe you need to get the fuck off the internet since you seem to have no concept of how it works. Also, fuck the fuck off.