American Songwriter has published a piece celebrating the Minimoog, the compact analogue synthesiser Robert Moog created in 1970, and its lasting influence on 1970s music. The article highlights how the instrument, a more portable follow-up to Moog's original 1964 synthesiser, became a signature sound for major artists of the era and helped shape the decade's pop, disco and funk landscape.

To illustrate its impact, the piece points to three well-known hits that used the Minimoog: Stevie Wonder's "Sir Duke," a Billboard Hot 100 number one written as a tribute to jazz legend Duke Ellington; The Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive," part of the enormously successful Saturday Night Fever soundtrack; and Parliament's "Flash Light," which gave the group their first R&B number one and featured a bassline built from three or four layered Minimoog synthesisers, created by writer Bernie Worrell.