Editing Disco (section)

===1940s–1960s: First discotheques===
Disco was mostly developed from music that was popular on the dance floor in clubs that started playing records instead of having a live band. The first discotheques mostly played [[swing music]]. Later on, uptempo [[rhythm and blues]] became popular in American clubs and [[northern soul]] and [[glam rock]] records in the UK. In the early 1940s, nightclubs in Paris resorted to playing jazz records during the Nazi occupation.

[[Régine Zylberberg]] claimed to have started the first discotheque and to have been the first club DJ in 1953 in the "Whisky à Go-Go" in Paris. She installed a dance floor with colored lights and two turntables so she could play records without having a gap in the music.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zoK1CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA176|title=The History of Live Music in Britain, Volume I: 1950-1967: From Dance Hall to the 100 Club|first1=Simon|last1=Frith|first2=Matt|last2=Brennan|first3=Emma|last3=Webster|date=March 9, 2016|publisher=Routledge|via=Google Books|isbn=9781317028871|access-date=June 1, 2020|archive-date=May 22, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240522075959/https://books.google.com/books?id=zoK1CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA176#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref> In October 1959, the owner of the [[Scotch Club]] in [[Aachen|Aachen, West Germany]] chose to install a record player for the opening night instead of hiring a live band. The patrons were unimpressed until a young reporter, who happened to be covering the opening of the club, impulsively took control of the record player and introduced the records that he chose to play. Klaus Quirini later claimed to thus have been the world's first nightclub DJ.<ref name=Oxford />