What happened to disco and all the musicians who became sensations from it? According to historians, disco died on a specific day, July 12, 1979. This was due ..
Disco Demolition Night was an ill-fated baseball promotion that took place on July 12.. When disco star Van McCoy died suddenly on July 6, Dahl marked the ..
For the modern style of music also called "disco", see Nu-disco. For other uses . The slogans "disco sucks" and "death to disco" became common. Rock artists ..
Oct 2, 2006.. I am opening this thread because there is much debate on when disco died, or even when disco began to die, that is, the beginning of the end.
Disco
Disco Demolition Night
As the 1970s came to an end, the age of disco was also nearing its finale. But for all of its decadence and overexposure, disco didn't quite die a natural death by ..
May 21, 2012.. The following is an article from the book Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges into Music. One of the shortest-lived phases in American ..
Disco is a genre of music containing elements of funk, soul, pop, salsa and psychedelic that was most popular in the 1970s, though it has since enjoyed brief resurgences. The term is derived from discotheque (French for "library of phonograph records", but subsequently used as proper name for nightclubs in Paris). Its initial audiences were club-goers from the African American, [nb 1] Italian American, Latino...
Disco Demolition Night was an ill-fated baseball promotion that took place on July 12, 1979, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois. 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. Many of those in attendance had come to see the explosion rather than the games and rushed onto the field after the detonation.
Jul 12, 2013.. Disco was already fading from the airwaves when Chicago disk jockeys Steve Dahl and Garry Meier organized the "Disco Demolition," but the ..