Donna Summer [2023] - HBO Documentary ‘Love To Love You, Donna Summer’

Set to premiere on 20 May is an HBO Documentary ‘Love To Love You, Donna Summer’. It takes an in-depth look at the iconic "Queen of Disco". 

Summer was born LaDonna Adrian Gaines in 1948 and died of cancer in May 2012. The documentary, directed by Oscar and Emmy-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams and Summer's daughter Brooklyn Sudan, follows her beginnings in Germany, to the dance floors of clubs in New York. It's a deeply personal portrait of Summer.

She began as a member of a New York blues rock band Crow in 1967 before moving to Munich in 1968 to join the German adaptation of the musical 'Hair'. It was there she met Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte and  the rest, as they say, is history. Summer returned to the US in 1976.

Under her maiden name Donna Gaines she released three singles between 1968 and 1971. The first single consisted of two songs from 'Hair' and the 1971  single, "Sally Go Round The Roses", was a cover of The Jaynettes (1963) and released only in the UK and now sells for almost £500.

Prior to her break-through single "Love To Love You Baby" in 1975, she released three singles in Germany with Moroder and Bellotte.

She married Austrian actor Helmut Sommer in 1973 from whom she acquired her stage name when the label misspelt Sommer as Summer, and later, in 1980, married Bruce Sudano who she had had two daughters with, Brooklyn and Amanda Grace.

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