Disco Sucks: Steve Dahl, 1979 (Source: orlandocultureshock.wordpress.com) Why thousands of disco records were burned and why disco will never die On 12 th July 1979, an unprecedented 59,000 hard rock-loving baseball fans stormed Comiskey Park in Illinois for what would go down in history as Disco Demolition Night. Local radio DJ and Led Zep/Stones devotee Steve Dahl initially unleashed his ‘Disco Sucks!’ campaign during his slot on Chicago’s 97.9 WLUP-FM, based on the premise that “Midwesterners didn't want that intimidating [disco] style shoved down their throats”. At a time when Studio 54 was in its heyday and stations were substituting REO Speedwagon and Black Sabbath for tracks by Sister Sledge, Donna Summer and the Bee Gees, Dahl decided to lash out at the soaring popularity of disco music in the wake of Saturday Night Fever in 1977. In an attempt to “eradicate of the dreaded musical disease known as DISCO” (which incidentally was filling discotheques acr
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