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How Disco-Tex Got Dancin'

Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 22 February 1975

"MY FIRST single? Ha... ha... ha... that was about ten years ago. Wes Farrell wrote it in his car on the way to the recording studio. It wasn't a hit." Disco-Tex, alias Monti Rock III, alias Jose Moises Martinez, leans back and laughs. He laughs a lot, this one time society hairdresser, film star, darling of the chat shows and Paris fashion designer.

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