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1	* BreakawayPopHit: Has a knack for writing soundtrack songs that eclipse the actual film.
2	** "On The Radio" (performed by Music/DonnaSummer) from ''Foxes''.
3	** "Call Me" (performed by Music/{{Blondie\|Band}}) from ''Film/AmericanGigolo''.
4	** "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)" (performed by Music/DavidBowie) from ''Film/CatPeople''.
5	** "Together In Electric Dreams" (performed by Moroder and [[Music/TheHumanLeague Philip Oakey]]) from ''Film/ElectricDreams.''
6	** "Love Kills" (performed by Music/FreddieMercury) from ''Film/{{Metropolis}}''.
7	* CareerResurrection: Twice.
8	** His [[TheSixties '60s]]/early [[TheSeventies '70s]] bubblegum pop ("Looky, Looky"; "Son Of My Father", famously CoveredUp by Chicory Tip) had made him a kind of laughing stock of the music scene. Then in 1977, while he was producing Music/DonnaSummer, he made "I Feel Love"--a revolution in {{disco}} music: He replaced the usual elements taken over from {{funk}} with a driving, semi-[[ElectronicMusic electronic]] 1/16th beat which was partly even played by a machine. He had gone under as a maker of musical {{Narm}}--and resurfaced as one of the pioneers of ElectronicMusic, making ElectronicDanceMusic before there was ElectronicDanceMusic.
9	** His other big comeback was in 2013 and not quite as spectacular. Music/DaftPunk, big fans of his, got the opportunity to make a track with him in which he tells the listener about his career. This exposed a new generation of listeners to him. He regrew his PornStache and became "the world's oldest active DJ".
10	** In the late 1970s, both Music/{{Sparks}} and The Three Degrees achieved career resurrections through albums he produced for them.
11	* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: He's said in several interviews that the song he's most proud of is "Take My Breath Away (Love Theme from ''Top Gun'')". Happily for him, it's also one of his biggest hits.
12	* FollowTheLeader: As a pioneer of electronic dance music, many other acts followed his lead. But it happened the other way round as well: his ''Music From Battlestar Galactica'' album followed the lead of Meco's ''Star Wars And Other Galactic Funk''.
13	* HeAlsoDid: ...the financial backing of [[CoolCar the first production sports car with a 16-cylinder engine]], the Cizeta-Moroder [=V16T=].
14	* ProductionPosse: Besides his co-producer Pete Bellotte, Moroder's posse in the Munich disco era included bassist Les Hurdle, keyboard player Thor Baldursson, woodwind player Dino Solera, and drummer Keith Forsey. Forsey in particular appeared on just about everything Moroder and Bellotte produced in the 70s, and went on to contribute lyrics to several of Moroder's 80s film soundtracks. In the 80s, when Moroder was based in Los Angeles, his regular collaborators included vocalists Joe Esposito, Creator/ElizabethDaily, Beth Anderson and Paul Engemann, and guitarist Richie Zito. Keyboard player and sometimes co-producer Harold Faltermeyer spans both eras.

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