CHICAGO (WLS) -- Almost 37 years ago to the day, Chicago radio icon Steve Dahl blew up disco records at Comiskey Park on July 12, 1979. Disco Demolition Night was an event that blew up itself into the ...

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Organizers had expected 5,000 people to show up at a July 12, 1979 Chicago White Sox game billed as "Disco Demolition Night." The actual crowd totaled more than 50,000 people. What happened next was ...

There’s no consensus about what was behind the violence at the Disco Demolition Night at the Chicago White Sox field in 1979. Were the thousands of people—mostly White—who stormed the field after ...

What cultural conditions lead to a rock shock jock blowing up disco records and starting a riot at a ballpark? That is the question that "The War on Disco," the October 30 American Experience ...

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It was the summer of 1979, and disco was taking over the world. Donna Summer, Chic and Gloria Gaynor were at the top of the charts. Just a few months earlier, the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack had ...

When asked about Disco Demolition Night, Steve Trout, Glen Rosenbaum and Roger Bossard conjured up the same emotions as 30 years ago: humor and shock. The wildest promotion-gone-bad in White Sox ...

CHICAGO — Sports teams rarely celebrate the forfeiture of a game, but the White Sox handed out 10,000 T-shirts at Thursday’s Yankees game commemorating next month’s 40th anniversary of Disco ...

The demise of disco was greatly accelerated by the cultural impact of the infamous Disco Demolition Night of 1979 in Chicago’s Comiskey Park. While rockers have used the word in a pejorative sense for ...

A story that’s about much more than music, The War On Disco explores how the powerful anti-disco backlash revealed a cultural divide that to some seemed to be driven by racism and homophobia. 9pm ...