| Nile Rodgers comments on the 'Disco Sucks' incident in 1979 (excerpt
from a BBC documentary). Run by rock crony radio-dj Steve
Dahl the 'Disco Sucks' campaign, an outgrowth of racism and homophobia?,
reached its peak when, during a pause in a baseball game at Chicago's Comiskey
Park Arena on July 12th 1979, 10.000 disco records were blown up and the
crowd rioted shouting 'death to disco.' The effect was immediately felt
on the disco community, record company execs invested less in disco, several
disco radio stations went rock, and suddenly the word 'disco' was something
very negative...and in the US almost taboo. |
