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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.
Steven Robert Dahl (born November 20, 1954) [1] [2] is an American radio personality. He is the owner and operator of the Steve Dahl Network, a subscription-based podcasting network. Dahl gained a measure of national attention after organizing and hosting Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park. [3] [4]
July 12, 1979 -- Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park in. ... Chicago rock DJ Steve Dahl took it upon himself to literally demolish the genre for good. In between games of a day-night double ...
Although disco was popular, it also sparked a rock and roll fan backlash prominent enough that the White Sox, during a lackluster season, engaged shock jock and anti-disco campaigner Steve Dahl for the promotion. Attendees paid 98 cents and brought a disco record; between games, Dahl destroyed the collected vinyl in an explosion.
There was no mistake that Steve Dahl was in radio because I feel radio had a bone to pick with us. You’re referring to the Chicago radio DJ who was behind Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park ...
The sports section of the Detroit Free Press from July 13, 1979. Disco Demolition Night was an ill-fated baseball promotion that took place on July 12, 1979, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois.
"I never thought that I, a stupid disc jockey, could draw 70,000 people to a disco demolition," Dahl said in a Tribune interview. "Unfortunately, some of our followers got a little carried away." That was the last anti-disco rally for WLUP. But it brought Dahl national attention and established him as a radio superstar in Chicago. [22]
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."