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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. 1979 Chicago White Sox season - Wikipedia

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    Disco Demolition Night (also known as "Anti-Disco Night" and "Disco Sucks Night") was a promotional event that took place on July 12, 1979, at Comiskey Park in Chicago. It was held during a scheduled twi-night doubleheader between the Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Tigers .

  4. 36 years later, we remember Disco Demolition Night at ...

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    July 12, 1979 -- Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park in. By John Dorn It was a night that brought one of the most destructive revolutions in professional sports history, but one that has been ...

  5. Before backlash, Detroit had love affair with disco ... - AOL

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    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.

  6. Comiskey Park - Wikipedia

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    From 1971 until its demolition in 1991, Comiskey was the oldest park still in use in Major League Baseball (it had already been the oldest in the American League since 1955). Many of its known characteristics, such as the pinwheels on the "exploding" scoreboard, were installed by Bill Veeck (owner of the White Sox from 1959 to 1961, and again ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. Mike Veeck - Wikipedia

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    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 known as Disco Demolition Night. Veeck left the White Sox when his father sold the team in 1980.

  9. ‘Disco’s Revenge’ Filmmakers Talk Nile Rodgers, Archive ...

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    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 ...