Disco Demolition
Subtitle: the night disco died
By: Steve Dahl with Dave Hoekstra and Paul Natkin ; with a foreword by Bob Odenkirk
Contributors: Hoekstra, Dave, author; Natkin, Paul, author; Odenkirk, Bob, 1962- writer of foreword
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Curbside Splendor Publishing
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9781940430751
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: History; Comiskey Park (Chicago, Ill.); Disco music; Marketing; Popular culture; History and criticism; Sports
Other titles: Night disco died
Description: In the late 1970s disco music dominated radio airwaves, to the dismay of many rock music fans. To boost attendance, White Sox owner Bill Veeck and Chicago DJ Steve Dahl collaborated to host "Disco Demolition" on July 12, 1979. The plan was to blow up disco records on the field between the games of a double-header. But when the crowd stormed the field, tearing out seats and lighting bonfires, the field was destroyed and the second game was canceled for the first time in Major League Baseball history.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Steve Dahl; title: Preface / Dave Hoesktra; title: Mike and Bill Veeck; title: Janet and Steve Dahl : a team for the ages; title: Bridgeport and the South Side; title: The 1979 Chicago White Sox; title: Chicago rock in a disco world; title: Denis DeYoung : Chicagoan and lifelong White Sox fan; title: Steve and Garry; title: Chicago radio of the late 1970s; title: Disco; title: Nile Rodgers good times; title: Harry Wayne Casey and KC and the Sunshine Band : godfathers of disco; title: Nancy Faust : the only live act that night; title: Lorelei : the original Loop rock girl; title: How Disco Demolition was designed; title: How Disco Demolition went down; title: Legendary groundskeeper Roger Bossard : the morning after; title: Disco Demolition vendors serve memories; title: House [music]; title: Aftermath.