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  1. Apr 28, 2024 · Disco Demolition Night. A July 1979 radio promotion dreamed up the idea to blow up a crate of disco records at Comiskey Park in Chicago between games of a doubleheader—it was dubbed Disco ...

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  2. 1 day ago · What followed damaged the field so much that the White Sox had to forfeit the second game. Fans rushed onto the field and began to riot. It also changed the course of American pop music. Disco Demolition Night is a lesson in the problems of straight line extrapolation of trends. By the late 1970s disco was the principal pop music genre in the USA.

  3. May 3, 2024 · 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 ...

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  5. May 4, 2024 · For Reasor, disco became history. (So did his relationship.) ... Disco Demolition Night was an ill-fated baseball promotion that took place on July 12, 1979, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois ...

  6. May 10, 2024 · Dancing In The City. The story of disco began on Valentine’s Day 1970 at 647 Broadway in New York, where David Mancuso, an antique dealer and hi-fi enthusiast, hosted his first “Love Saves The Day” invitation-only dance party in the 2,000 square-foot loft where he lived. His bedroom was on a platform above the DJ booth.

  7. May 3, 2024 · In addition, the hedonism and sexual liberation embodied by disco found itself stopped in its tracks by the AIDS crisis. Pushed out of the mainstream, the pioneers of disco retreated and regrouped. Cult disco DJ Frankie Knuckles left New York for Chicago, where he remixed disco breaks with R&B to produce a new genre of dance music – house.

  8. TIL In 1979 a stadium hosted Disco Demolition Night. Cost was ¢99 if you brought a disco record. 50,000 people showed up to see them blow up the records in between games. Thousands rushed the field in a frenzy. This is referred to as “The Night Disco Died” and is linked to the decline of the genre

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