Posted on 07/13/2019 6:32:43 AM PDT by C19fan
On July 12, 1979, 48,000 fans packed Chicago’s Comiskey Park for Disco Demolition Night. Some spectators went out of control. "They got really, I would say, violent," says Darlene Jackson, who was 10 years old when the White Sox held Disco Demolition Night. "It was so primal and tribal." Jackson was jolted as she watched the postgame news reports.
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Just like the bombing of Hiroshima, it was the right thing to do.
Race had nothing to do with it. Steve Dahl was a rock DJ who hated disco.
Now a lot of people people, mostly the Satanic Left, say EVERYTHING is racist and homophobic.
Disco sucks, it wont last too long...
BOOM!!!
Disco sucks. I cheered that night when it happened, and I’d cheer it today.
Long live rock and roll!
“I find that odd because the biggest group associated with Disco was the Bee Gees.”
Agreed and remember that the Bee Gees’ music was mainly featured in the movie that really promoted disco and that was 1978’s “Saturday Night Fever”. That movie featured a white cast with John Travolta, Donna Pescow, and Karen Lynn Gorney and it basically was about a young white working class man in Brooklyn who deep down inside aspired to make it into the upper classes in Manhattan.
Does anyone who melted down their gold chains still have the Led Zeppelin belt buckle?
John Travolta is responsible for the decline of both disco and country music (Urban Cowboy). Neither were the same after his movies came out.
The other story I remember about that night was reading the late Ron Luciano’s take on the whole thing. Believe he was part of the umpire crew for that night and he said he and the rest of his crew made themselves scarce once things got out of hand because someone in a blue umpire’s suit at Comiskey that night would have been just as popular as someone wearing a “Elvis Loved Disco” t-shirt, lol.
The first thing that comes to mind when I think of disco is John Travota. I found disco annoying and pretentious. At the time, I saw disco as a white phenomenon. Now if you don’t love it you are a white supremacist.
This Maoist/Stalinist accusation stuff is wearing thin. By the time the next election comes people will wear their accused Nazism as a badge of honor and the people will cheer it.
“Agreed and remember that the Bee Gees’ music was mainly featured in the movie that really promoted disco and that was 1978’s “Saturday Night Fever”.”
There are Italians who find that movie offensive.
I wonder about what sort of impact “Grease” had, lol?
The Saturday Night Fever soundtrack is better than most music produced in recent years. Many “disco” songs were actually very good funk or R&B.
Well, I do remember that “The Godfather” had that sort of controversy as well.
Oh, good point. That came out about the time the 50s revival was waning.
Although Fonzie jumping the shark may have been the defining moment... ;-)
Missing from the article is any consideration of the passion of the radio age. As a yute I had my favorite station on all the time. It was comfortable and always in the background.
It’s understandable that many people took offense to the rapid, forced integration of Disco onto the airwaves.
Stations that were once grounded in Rock now played crap dance music and in cities with limited radio choices if you’re favorite station made the change you were screwed.
Offended, mad, pissed off. All are qualities that every person regardless of color are entitled to express when an abomination is forced upon them.
Disco wasn’t exclusive to blacks and gays. Not even close. It was a cross-cultural mess.
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