CHICAGO (WLS) -- Almost 37 years ago to the day, Chicago radio icon Steve Dahl blew up disco records at Comiskey Park on July 12, 1979. Disco Demolition Night was an event that blew up itself into the ...

Organizers had expected 5,000 people to show up at a July 12, 1979 Chicago White Sox game billed as "Disco Demolition Night." The actual crowd totaled more than 50,000 people. What happened next was ...

Oct. 28—Rushmore DeNooyer always wanted to work with the PBS series American Experience. The producer was pulled into the mix when American Experience's Cameo George reached out and told him she was ...

There’s no consensus about what was behind the violence at the Disco Demolition Night at the Chicago White Sox field in 1979. Were the thousands of people—mostly White—who stormed the field after ...

had just lost 4:1 to the Detroit Tigers. But the stands are still packed. It's an evening double-header. has promised to blow up a giant crate of disco records. The source of Dahl's animosity towards ...

What cultural conditions lead to a rock shock jock blowing up disco records and starting a riot at a ballpark? That is the question that "The War on Disco," the October 30 American Experience ...

Bob Odenkirk recounted the catastrophic 1979 baseball promotion Disco Demolition Night in a clip from Drunk History‘s “Shit Shows” episode. The Better Call Saul actor narrates the hilarious segment, ...

Rob Halford said the infamous Disco Demolition Night in 1979 had been rife with anti-gay attitudes and had left him upset at a time when it was still difficult to come out. The Judas Priest singer ...

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CHICAGO — Sports teams rarely celebrate the forfeiture of a game, but the White Sox handed out 10,000 T-shirts at Thursday’s Yankees game commemorating next month’s 40th anniversary of Disco ...

A story that’s about much more than music, The War On Disco explores how the powerful anti-disco backlash revealed a cultural divide that to some seemed to be driven by racism and homophobia. 9pm ...

American Experience’s “The War on Disco” airs at 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 30, on New Mexico PBS, channel 5.1. It will also stream on the PBS app. Rushmore DeNooyer always wanted to work with the PBS series ...