Football Disco!

An idiosyncratic history of football: Pascal Claude's personal collection of football songs gathered over the last twenty years

Dale, Forza, Allez, Hopp! The football record has more to offer than just music: the sleeves outline the history of football in a very special way. They tell of promotions, championship titles, finals and ground inaugurations, document the evolution of the playing equipment from the heavy brown leather ball to the television ready black and white one, to light and polished 'Tango' or show how the typography and imagery changed from one World Cup to another. Each cover is a piece of commercial art and a testament to its time.

Pascal Claude published the first edition of his football fanzine Knapp Daneben (Near Miss) in 1997, around the same time he started collecting football records. In 2012 he started to file his collection on 45football.com where they are available to the public. Luciano Caldarelli founded the 'Cancionero Popular Boquense' in 2013. Grahame Waite, also known as Webbie at footballandmusic.co.uk, founded the 'Football and Music' website. Christian Hahn is a designer, and runs the 'Büro für Erinnerungskultur' (Office for remembrance culture) in Babenhausen.

As this fascinating book shows, the football record--which turns out to be a vast subgenre of its own--has more to offer than just music: the sleeves of these seven-inch records outline the history of football in a truly unique way. They tell of promotions, championship titles, finals and ground inaugurations, and document the evolution of equipment (for example, from the heavy brown leather ball to the TV-friendly black-and-white ball); they also show how the typography and imagery changed from one World Cup to another. Each cover is a piece of commercial art and a testament to its time, narrating the history of football in a fun, informative and special fashion. Based on a collection of 930 cases of records from the 1950s to the present, Football Disco! tells the story of clubs such as Botafogo and Boca, Norwich and Nantes, Spartak and Dynamo, and celebrates footballers as pop stars: Pel

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