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 ...

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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 ...

It was the summer of 1979, and disco was taking over the world. Donna Summer, Chic and Gloria Gaynor were at the top of the charts. Just a few months earlier, the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack had ...

Chicago house pioneer Vince Lawrence recalls witnessing Disco Demolition Night as a teenager, and later recognizing the racist undertones of the infamous incident, in a new clip from the fascinating ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on July 12, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Even before the trouble between games ...

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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 ...

"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 video app. Highland, 4A's second-ranked team, trailed by 14 in the first half but ...

On this day, July 12, in 1979, riots broke out at Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park in Chicago, one of the most disastrous sports promotional ideas — right up there with “Ten Cent Beer Night” in ...

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