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Disco Demolition Night was a Major League Baseball (MLB) promotion on Thursday, July 12, 1979, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois, that ended in a riot.At the climax of the event, a crate filled with disco records was blown up on the field between games of the twi-night doubleheader between the Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Tigers.
This is when 200 radio stations changed to an all-disco format and what spurred Disco Demolition Night. The crushing of disco was aimed at the record companies, but it was the artists who suffered ...
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 ...
July 12, 1979 -- Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park in. ... July 12, 1979 -- Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park in Chicago -- rests in baseball and music lore forever.
Disco Demolition Night was an ill-fated baseball promotion that took place on July 12, 1979, at Comiskey Park in 0Chicago. At the climax of the event, a crate filled with disco records was blown up on the field between games of the twi-night doubleheader between the Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Tigers. Many had come to see the explosion ...
Post-disco is a term and genre to describe an aftermath in popular music history circa 1979–1986, imprecisely beginning with the backlash against disco music in the United States, leading to civil unrest and a riot in Chicago known as the Disco Demolition Night on July 12, 1979, and indistinctly ending with the mainstream appearance of new wave in 1980.
Oct. 30—Grainy TV news footage from 1979 shows thousands of people swarming over the field at Chicago's Comiskey Park, burning stacks of dance records and holding banners that read "Disco Sucks."
One night he was on duty turned out to be the infamous Disco Demolition Night. [2] [4] After becoming the victim of a hate crime, Vince settled out of court for $5000 with a view to buying his first synthesizers [13] He saved up enough money to buy a small synthesizer, a Moog Prodigy. Looking up to his mentors, Vince started his own band called ...