The Legend of Cool Disco Dan

The Legend of Cool Disco Dan

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2012
1h 26m
8.0(1 votes)
Documentary

Overview

"The Legend of Cool 'Disco' Dan" is the story of black Washington DC told from the perspective of Cool "Disco" Dan starting with his birth during the civil rights era and follows his life parallel with the rise of Go-Go music through the 1980s (which is the unheard but yet dominant urban music of DC) and also local DC politics with Marion Barry's rise and fall. Despite ending up homeless Cool "Disco" Dan used graffiti to escape the social problems D.C. had in the 1980s when things turned violent and became known as the Murder Capital of the United States. Cool "Disco" Dan ends up as a cult character of DC and his name becomes a symbol of survival during DC's most trying years.

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Cool 'Disco' Dan

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Henry Rollins

Narrator

Henry Rollins
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Marion Barry

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Chuck Brown

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Chuck Brown
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Gregory 'Sugar Bear' Elliott

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Big Tony Fisher

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Paul Hendrickson

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Andre 'Whiteboy' Johnson

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Seth Hurwitz

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Seth Hurwitz
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DC Scorpio

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Frank Ski

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Alona Wartofsky

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