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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 ...
On a recent Friday night, the French disco band L'Impératrice took the stage at the Shrine Expo Hall, framed in a spray of huge LED panels. In a boom era for big music venues, the Shrine gets a ...
Disco: A Decade of Saturday Nights, organized by Experience Music Project in Seattle, Washington, [1] was the first major museum exhibition to explore the rich, complex world of disco. [2] Pulsating with light and sound, the exhibit followed disco from its beginnings in New York club culture to the fad created by Saturday Night Fever , the ...
Disco Saturday Night was carried by KBIG-FM for nearly a year after the format change, but after Labor Day in 2008, the show was replaced by 8 Hours Of 80s, which ran until the Spring of 2009. In April 2009, Sean Hamilton , long-time afternoon host at WKTU-FM in New York City, joined KBIG-FM as host of its afternoon show. [ 13 ]
From the Big Apple to the Big Easy was two benefit concerts for the people of the Gulf Coast as they recovered from Hurricane Katrina (August 23, 2005 – August 31, 2005). The concerts took place simultaneously at Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall , these venues being approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) apart.
In many ways, Big Ears is the fruition of the 1970s, finally coming into focus. Two of the Below-14th-Street art scene’s most interesting exponents are putting their legacies on view at Big Ears ...
In the early 1970s, disco spawned a succession of dance fads including the Bump, the Hustle, and the Y.M.C.A. This continued in the 1980s with the popular song "Walk like an Egyptian" [2], [clarification needed] in the 1990s with the "Macarena", in the 2000s with "The Ketchup Song" and in the 2010s with "Gangnam Style".