Well the original version of that song was by Laura Branigan and does bare a resemblance . Apparently Deborah was originally called Gloria, but they changed it slightly to avoid litigation, but there's this as well which could be seen as source material for D2K.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26wEWSUUsUc&feature=fvst

-- Edited by SarahAWilson on Sunday 29th of August 2010 11:26:44 AM

Well obviously the riff from Disco 2000 is a direct lift from 'Gloria' (which wasn't actually originally by Laura Branigan- it was an Italo Disco song first, with different lyrics). The ripping off is surely the point- taking a riff from an extremely uncool camp disco song and putting it in a camp disco pastiche, it's funny and daft. It's hardly plagiarism.

I have no idea if they had to pay royalties to the writers of the 'Gloria' song, I presume not as only Pulp are credited on the album sleeve, it's a two note riff so I just reckon it would have been far too difficult for anyone to prove that they originally wrote it.

Sarah, where did you hear that Deborah was originally going to be called Gloria? It seems very unlikely, as Deborah was actually someone Jarv knew from school, I've read him talk about the Disco 2000 lyrics loads and he's never mentioned the Gloria thing.

Sounds nothing like Saturday Night, although all Pulp songs from this time definitely sounded pretty glam rock.

Wasn't Disco 2000 known as Gloria when originally demoed for Different Class, (presumably before Jarvis necked that cheap Spanish brandy and wrote the lyrics for it)? Pretty sure I've read that somewhere. It seems they knew what they were doing alright.

I visited Umberto Tozzi's hometown a couple of years ago, he's still a big draw in Italia.