"Disco Demolition Night" (Chicago, 1979) The rise and fall (and rise again) of DISCO!
What a Creep
Margo Donohue
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
“Disco Demolition Night: July 12, 1979”
Season 20, Episode 1
Margo and Sonia put on our boogie shoes and prepare to call bull shit on all of the excuses given for “Disco Demolition Night” on Thursday, July 12, 1979, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, IL. A group of boring, racist, sexist, and homophobic idiots decided disco music had been popular for too long. For fun, Chicago shock jock Steve Dahl created a stunt to destroy LPs on the field of a White Sox & Detroit Tigers game!
Mayhem ensued due to the hyped (and hopped) up a crowd of meatheads who had decided that things like Saturday Night Fever, partner dancing, and people who were not “musicians” should have any success, much less a part of pop culture.
All of this disco fuss (which coincided with Anita Bryant's gay bashing on the news every night) makes us realize that fighting pop culture “wars” is a sad, furious (and deeply stupid)tale as old as time.
We have THOUGHTS about this one!
Sources for this episode
Wikipedia
EDM.com
The Guardian
1979 News Coverage YouTube
ESPN story on Disco Demolition Night
Weird History
A variety of clips of local news coverage in 1979
Black Girl Culture Blog
HBO The Bee Gees: How Do You Mend a Broken Heart
Cape Symphony “How to Disco Begin?”
CNN Opinion Ad Campaigns Should be Inclusive
Vox: The Bud Light Boycott
Fox News: Sarah Huckabee Sanders “trolls” Bud Light with beer koozies featuring “Real Women”
Art & Pop Culture: The first reporting about “disco” by Vince Aletti, Rolling Stone, September 13, 1973
http://artandpopularculture.com/Discotheque_rock_%2773:_Paaaaarty%21
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to What A Creep, the show with Margot Donnie and Sonia Mansfield talking about |
| 0:06.2 | creeps from the past to the present. |
| 0:09.0 | This is your quick guide to the biggest creeps, jerks, assholes and losers, the best of the |
| 0:13.6 | worst. |
| 0:14.6 | From two nice ladies who want the world to be a little less creepy. |
| 0:27.0 | Welcome back to What A Creep, this is Margot Donnie and my cohort in creepitude as always |
| 0:31.6 | is the amazing Sonia Mansfield. |
| 0:33.6 | Hey Sonia. |
| 0:34.6 | Oh my friend. |
| 0:36.6 | Hello my friend. |
| 0:38.6 | We are the podcast that talks about creeps from the past to the present. |
| 0:42.6 | This is sort of a creepy event that happens that have some creeps around it and has creepy |
| 0:47.0 | reasons why it happened. |
| 0:49.0 | Mm hmm. |
| 0:50.0 | Can't wait. |
| 0:51.0 | You, we do have the social media shit to talk about. |
| 0:54.2 | We do have a basic Facebook page. |
| 0:56.0 | That's where people go to complain about our language. |
| 0:59.4 | It's what a creep podcast and then because we use we use salty language, fucking deal |
| 1:04.8 | with it. |
| 1:05.8 | If we do use salty language in this program, we are the most interactive in our Facebook |
| 1:10.3 | group. |
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