I’m somewhat ashamed to admit that the first record I ever bought (and yes, it was a 12” vinyl record) was a Bee Gees album.
Don’t apologize. The brothers Gibb are/were some of the best pop song writers of all time. There’s entirely too much guilt wrapped around memories of disco. Surely children of the 70s overdid it, but remember, it never actually died.
What they called “new wave,” with bands like Blondie and Duran Duran, is basically indistinguishable from disco. Michael Jackson and Madonna, whose music they dubbed, for lack of a more precise term, “pop” undeniably did disco. Ever listen, really listen, to “PYT” or “Into the Groove”? Rap and hip-hop endlessly recycle, literally, disco tracks.