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Donna Summer Dead
TMZ ^ | 5/17/12

Posted on 05/17/2012 8:57:18 AM PDT by Clint N. Suhks

Donna Summer -- the Queen of Disco -- died this morning after a battle with cancer ... TMZ has learned.

We're told Summer was in Florida at the time of her death. She was 63 years old.

Sources close to Summer tell us ... the singer was trying to keep the extent of her illness under wraps. We spoke to someone who was with Summer a couple of weeks ago ... who says she didn't seem too bad.

In fact, we're told she was focused on trying to finish up an album she had been working on.

Summer was a 5-time Grammy winner who shot to superstardom in the '70s with iconic hits like "Last Dance," "Hot Stuff" and "Bad Girls."


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: celebrity; donna; donnasummer; singer; summer
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1 posted on 05/17/2012 8:57:25 AM PDT by Clint N. Suhks
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To: Clint N. Suhks

A sad day. No longer will she have to Work hard for the money.


2 posted on 05/17/2012 8:59:34 AM PDT by commish (Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it.)
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To: commish

Oh terriable too many memories gone. RIP


3 posted on 05/17/2012 9:01:02 AM PDT by angcat (GO YANKS!)
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To: Clint N. Suhks
So much for: "I will survive". Disco makes me violently ill.
4 posted on 05/17/2012 9:01:46 AM PDT by 98ZJ USMC
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To: Clint N. Suhks

So sad.


5 posted on 05/17/2012 9:02:38 AM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: Clint N. Suhks
My favorite Donna Summer song was On the Radio

I understood that she had become a "born-again chrstian" at some point. Unfortunately, I also read that she was supporting "gay rights." Does not compute.

At any rate, we've lost another icon of the 1970's--the absolute pinnacle of human civilization.

6 posted on 05/17/2012 9:03:23 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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To: Clint N. Suhks

sad day.

makes you feel old, doesn’t it?

His judgment cometh and that right soon


7 posted on 05/17/2012 9:03:33 AM PDT by beebuster2000
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To: Clint N. Suhks

Holy crap, I didn’t even know she was sick.


8 posted on 05/17/2012 9:04:25 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: beebuster2000

I’m sick and tired of our contemporaries dying.


9 posted on 05/17/2012 9:05:59 AM PDT by Clint N. Suhks
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To: Zionist Conspirator

I thought the gays were upset with her because she had said homosexuality was wrong.


10 posted on 05/17/2012 9:05:59 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: 98ZJ USMC

Gloria Gaynor is still alive.


11 posted on 05/17/2012 9:06:37 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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To: dfwgator

I remember Rollar skating to Bad girl in late 1970s


12 posted on 05/17/2012 9:07:19 AM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: Clint N. Suhks

Oh no! I loved her. She sang some very risque songs, but she became a Christian and wouldn’t perform her hits for many years. That was when she became more serious as a musician. I saw her in Reno a couple of years ago and it was a good show.


13 posted on 05/17/2012 9:07:59 AM PDT by webheart
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Gloria Gaynor is still alive.

Yes, but Andrea True is dead.

14 posted on 05/17/2012 9:08:17 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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To: Clint N. Suhks

Except for KC, I hated disco at the time. But I love it now. Thanks Donna!


15 posted on 05/17/2012 9:08:17 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas (hViva Christo Rey!)
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To: Clint N. Suhks
Sad to hear this - I was not a Disco fan, but I liked her music. Rest in Peace!



Nos genuflectitur ad non princeps sed Princeps Pacem!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

16 posted on 05/17/2012 9:09:11 AM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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To: dfwgator

Flashback to my part time job in college working in a disco as a bouncer/bartender starting to make me feel real mortal.


17 posted on 05/17/2012 9:10:57 AM PDT by Clint N. Suhks
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To: Perdogg

FYI. Of interest.


18 posted on 05/17/2012 9:10:57 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
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To: 98ZJ USMC
So much for: "I will survive". Disco makes me violently ill.

Gloria Gaynor sang this song - not Donna.

19 posted on 05/17/2012 9:12:11 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
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To: Clint N. Suhks
I’m sick and tired of our contemporaries dying.

Yeah. They should stop.

20 posted on 05/17/2012 9:12:31 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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