Forty Years Later, Disagreement About Disco Demolition Night

On July 12, 1979, 48,000 fans packed Chicago’s Comiskey Park for Disco Demolition Night. Some spectators went out of control.

“They got really, I would say, violent,” says Darlene Jackson, who was 10 years old when the White Sox held Disco Demolition Night. “It was so primal and tribal.”

Steve Dahl had lost his job spinning rock records when the radio station he worked for changed to an all-disco format. He quickly found another job at another rock station. But he was still angry.

“And every morning, I would play a disco record,” Dahl says. “I’d run the needle across the record. And then I would have an explosion — like, blowing up the record.”

(Just to be clear, Dahl’s talking about explosion sound effects. The real explosions would come later.)

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