Sister Disco is a rock song by the British rock group, The Who. It is from the 1979 album Who Are You. The Who are an English rock band who first came to prominence in the 1960s and grew to be considered one of the greatest and most influential rock n roll bands of all time. ... Who Are You is an album by British rock band The Who. ...
The song mourns the death of Disco and features complicated synthesizer tracks. The track is a result of hours Pete Townshend spent programming an ARP 2500 synthesizer. A synthesizer (or synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument designed to produce electronically generated sound, using techniques such as additive, subtractive, FM, physical modelling synthesis, phase distortion, or Scanned synthesis. ... Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend (born May 19, 1945 in Chiswick, London) is an English rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, and composer who is best known as the guitarist for the rock band The Who. ...
The song was never performed live with Keith Moon, however it was performed regularly when The Who toured with Kenney Jones as drummer. Keith John Moon (August 23, 1946 â September 7, 1978) was the drummer of the rock group The Who. ... Drummer Kenney Jones was a member of renowned British pop-rock band the Small Faces from 1965 to 1969. ...