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Disco pioneer Tom Moulton: ‘People thought I was from another planet!’ – The Guardian

He invented the 12in single and introduced Grace Jones to the world – and at 80 years old is busy pumping out new remixes from quarantine

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In his disco heyday, Tom Moulton was known as the Doctor: a cantankerous ex-model whose editing scalpel could turn near-misses into hits, and hits into classics. His extended mixes were the toast of New York DJs a decade his junior, nearly all of whom he has outlived. Today he surveys his years with old-Manhattan pizzazz, unruffled, half-yelling and aghast at talk of retirement. People say: We know youre 80 and youre going to stop, he says from his Upper West Side apartment. No. When I stop, that…

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