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2. Disco Demolition Night - Wikipedia

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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.

3. New Documentary Illuminates the Heart and Soul of Disco - AOL

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   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 ...

4. Mike Veeck - Wikipedia

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   Shortly after Mike's college graduation, Bill purchased the Chicago White Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB), and hired Mike as the team's director of marketing. On July 12, 1979, Veeck hosted "Anti-Disco Night" with radio presenter Steve Dahl, a promotion that led to the White Sox forfeiting their game against the Detroit Tigers after blowing up disco records on the field; the episode became ...

5. 36 years later, we remember Disco Demolition Night at ...

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   July 12, 1979 -- Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park in. ... You can get TurboTax for 30% off on Amazon today. AOL. ... The Today Show.

6. Harry Caray - Wikipedia

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   Harry Christopher Caray (né Carabina; March 1, 1914 – February 18, 1998) was an American radio and television sportscaster.During his career he called the play-by-play for five Major League Baseball teams, beginning with 25 years of calling the games of the St. Louis Cardinals (with two of those years also spent calling games for the St. Louis Browns).

7. Portal:Chicago/Selected article/141 - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

8. Karen Mixon Cook - Wikipedia

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   In 2009, Cook was interviewed by the BBC [4] which was edited for the BBC Music Special, “The Death of Disco” in 2009, considered the 30th anniversary of the Death of Disco. Disco Demolition Night, an anti-disco protest held in Chicago, IL, on July 12, 1979, is commonly considered a factor in disco's fast and drastic decline. Cook was ...

9. Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April 1, 2014 - Wikipedia

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   Disco Demolition Night was an ill-fated baseball promotion that took place on July 12, 1979, at Comiskey Park (pictured) in Chicago, Illinois.In the late 1970s, dance-oriented disco music was highly popular in the United States, particularly after featuring in hit films such as Saturday Night Fever (1977).