Her music has been referenced by everyone from Beyoncé, who interpolated Love to Love You Baby on her 2003 hit Naughty Girl, to pop-rock band Texas, who sampled Summer's Love's Unkind on this year's single Mr Haze. When Summer died of lung cancer on, artists including Kylie Minogue, Solange and Katy B lined up to say she had inspired them. Hervey isn't exaggerating in the slightest. – How Nirvana's Nevermind shook the world – The genre-fluid music ahead of its time "Her sound transformed music and her freedom of expression has inspired female artists from the bottom up. "Donna Summer is iconic because of her authenticity as a performer, look and pioneering style," says Jillian Hervey of alt-R&B duo Lion Babe.
Clearly, there's more to Summer's life and career than her purple patch alone. It's a title Summer deserves, because she definitely became the pre-eminent artist of the disco era – but it's one that also feels a bit reductive. Thanks to a string of indelible hits in the late 1970s – including Love to Love You Baby, I Feel Love, Last Dance, Bad Girls and On the Radio – she is invariably described as the "Queen of Disco". But for Donna Summer, this imperial phase defines her more than most. Every musician has a heyday period with which they are most closely associated.
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