In Memoriam: "I Feel Love" Donna Summer

It's been a sad year for the music industry, as nearly every major genre has already lost a legend, and now dance music joins the list with the passing of Donna Summer, the once and always Queen of Disco. After a battle with lung cancer, she died yesterday at the age of 63, leaving behind an impressive legacy (including four #1 hits and five Grammys), as well as a career that defined the disco era, though Summer later ventured into rock and then gospel. It's hard to narrow down her expansive and impressive catalog (including the unforgettable "Love to Love You Baby" and "Last Dance"), but Summer's most important—and perhaps best—song remains the mind-bending "I Feel Love," which revolutionized dance music with its synthesizer production. Representing the "future" segment of her 1977 concept album I Remember Yesterday, a musical progression through the decades, it still sounds far beyond its time over 30 years later. Nevertheless, the sparse, space-y soundscape wouldn't work nearly as well without Summer's passionately, humanly blissed-out vocal performance, a signature of her long line of glorious feel-good hits. A