Seventh Avenue: Midnight In Manhattan [Full Album + Bonus] (1979)

One of no less than 8 albums that British producer Ian Levine recorded in 1979 and one which has often been described as one of the first boybands to ever exist. Said Levine himself: “Fiachra Trench and I constructed a concept disco album, “Midnight In Manhattan”, where all of the five long extended tracks, all merged into each other, like a classical suite, and all of the lyrics told a continuing story of a gay love affair, starting out in New York, and ending up in Los Angeles. The song lyrics of the title track were particularly inspired by my visit, in 1976, to hear Jim Burgess play as the DJ at The Infinity, something which Tom Moulton had arranged for me. The awesome impression of walking into a club for the first time, and seeing two thousand half naked men, dancing with their shirts off, and whooping with delight at the music, stuck with me throughout the years, and so I wrote it all down in that one particular song “Midnight In Manhattan”. Rick Gianatos mixed the entire album, and he signed it r