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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.
The people who attended the Disco Demolition Night at Chicago’s Comiskey Park might have thought they were killing it. ... That purpose was in the music. I would introduce a song and play it ...
July 12 – "Disco Demolition Night", an anti-disco promotional event held by a Chicago rock station at Comiskey Park involving exploding disco records with a bomb, causes a near-riot between games during a baseball major league doubleheader, forcing the cancellation of the second game.
Ellen Travolta, co-star of Saturday Night Fever and John Travolta's sister, played Manucci's mother. Makin' It had the misfortune of coming to air near the end of the disco fad as backlash against the disco culture (such as the one portrayed in the show) was rising in the United States, culminating in Disco Demolition Night in the summer of ...
Near the height of the disco movement sweeping the nation, Chicago rock DJ Steve Dahl took it upon himself to literally demolish the genre for good. In between games of a day-night double header ...
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 ...
Disco's decline in popularity after Disco Demolition Night was rapid. On July 12, 1979, the top six records on the U.S. music charts were disco songs. [112] By September 22, there were no disco songs in the US Top 10 chart, with the exception of Herb Alpert's instrumental "Rise", a smooth jazz composition with some disco overtones. [112]
Dua Lipa Taylor Hill/WireImage/Getty Images Dua Lipa has given her sequined swan song with “Dance the Night.” Though Lipa, 28, has found major success with the disco sound on songs like “Don ...