INTERVIEWS... DJ legends confess all. Settle down with a rich tea biscuit as dance music's pioneers tell their tales.

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    One of hip hop's founding fathers, famed for channelling gangs into parties and doing some serious digging.
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    The diggers' digger, and one of the men behind Mo' Wax's glory years, on beating blizzards to buy records.
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    From light-man for Walter Gibbons to DJ at Studio 54. Kenny is still spinning house and classic disco today.
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    A great showman and one of the true pioneers of disco. He also gave Frankie Knuckles and Larry Levan their first jobs.
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    A mainstay of disco's early years, the originator of remixing and the accidental inventor of the 12-inch single.
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    The man behind The Village People recalls the first nightclubs in post-war Paris and how he once borrowed a warship.
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    DJ don of the Sheffield scene and the man behind All Seeing I, Sweet Exorcist and Spook...
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    His ride from Hacienda obsessive to son of god, plus the fattest paycheck he didn't cash.
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    When The Embassy Club imported Greg from the US in the 1970s he brought disco mixing with him....
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    The ever-gentlemanly 'Godfather of House' shares his memories of the Windy City and the birth of house.
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    A devoted Chicago clubber who made Ron Hardy's Music Box his place of worship.
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    The architect of Italo-disco, the man behind acts including Capricorn and Goblin, reveals all
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    Owner of Rimini’s famous Disco Piu record shop: the man who fed music to the Afro and Cosmic scenes.
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    He was the London soulboy whose life was changed by a car accident and a trip to Ibiza. From Shoom to Radio One...
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    A made-man in the 1980s 'Soul Mafia', Froggy, aka Steven Howlett, was one of the first DJs to mix in the UK.
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    He won Grammies with Soul II Soul but just wanted to make his sound system the best in the world.
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    As a snake-hipped mod he scandalised London with the twist, then DJed his way through the swinging sixties.
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    A tireless champion of new sounds, few DJs have inspired so many to make music the centre of their lives.
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    Wigan Casino resident and key player on the northern soul scene, later founder of legendary reissue label Mastercuts.
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    A stalwart of British DJing, having rung the changes from northern soul, via jazz-funk and electro, to house.