quotDisco Demolition Nightquot Chicago 1979 The rise and fall and rise again of DISCO

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What a Creep • “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 (https://www.ballparksofbaseball.com/b...) . 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 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 (https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-n...) 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 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_D...) • EDM.com (https://edm.com/features/remembering-...) • The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/music/201...) • 1979 News Coverage YouTube ( • DISCO DEMOLITION NIGHT AT OLD COMISKE... ) • ESPN story on Disco Demolition Night ( • ESPN story about Disco Demolition - J... ) • Weird History ( • What Happened During the Infamous Dis... ) • A variety of clips of local news coverage in 1979 ( • 1979 Disco Demolition Night, Local Ne... ) • Black Girl Culture Blog (https://www.blkgirlculture.com/blog-2...) • HBO The Bee Gees: How Do You Mend a Broken Heart (https://www.hbomax.com/feature/urn:hb...) • Cape Symphony “How to Disco Begin?” (https://www.capesymphony.org/blog-new...) • CNN Opinion Ad Campaigns Should be Inclusive (https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/12/busine...) • Vox: The Bud Light Boycott (https://www.vox.com/money/2023/4/12/2...) • Fox News: Sarah Huckabee Sanders “trolls” Bud Light with beer koozies featuring “Real Women” (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sara...) • Art Pop Culture: The first reporting about “disco” by Vince Aletti, Rolling Stone, September 13, 1973 • http://artandpopularculture.com/Disco... • Be sure to follow us on social media. But don’t follow us too closely … don’t be a creep about it! • • Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...) • • Twitter: / creeppod @CreepPod • • Facebook: Join the private group! • • Instagram @WhatACreepPodcast • • Visit our Patreon page: / whatacreep • • Email: [email protected] • • We’ve got merch here! https://whatacreeppodcast.threadless.... • • Our website is www.whatacreeppodcast.com (http://www.whatacreeppodcast.com/) • • Our logo was created by Claudia Gomez-Rodriguez. Follow her on Instagram @ClaudInCloud

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