CHICAGO — Promotional nights have been a part of baseball games for years, but there will never be anything like what happened at Comiskey Park on July 12, 1979. On that night, a radio promotion led ...

Any retelling of the 1970s disco boom has to reckon with Disco Demolition Night, a shameful promotional event staged by Chicago shock-jock DJ Steve Dahl between games of a White Sox doubleheader on ...

This article is the seventh in a series called A Thousand Words, where we feature an interesting image from one of our films alongside an essay about why that picture is worth, well, a thousand words.

As a former White Sox season ticket holder, Steve Dahl has been back to Sox Park many times since Disco Demolition Night, his famous radio promotion gone awry. But Thursday’s trek to the South Side ...

Any retelling of the 1970s disco boom has to reckon with Disco Demolition Night, a shameful promotional event staged by Chicago shock-jock DJ Steve Dahl between games of a White Sox doubleheader on ...

Bob Odenkirk recounted the catastrophic 1979 baseball promotion Disco Demolition Night in a clip from Drunk History‘s “Shit Shows” episode. The Better Call Saul actor narrates the hilarious segment, ...

On July 12, 1979, a crateful of disco records was blown up in the middle of Comiskey Park, fans victoriously stormed the field, and the world was forever changed. Disco, an inescapable pop-music ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 28—Rushmore DeNooyer always wanted to work with the PBS series American Experience. The producer was pulled into the mix when ...

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 ...

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 ...

Combining two loves — music and baseball — The Baseball Project is a true indie supergroup. Featuring Mike Mills and Peter Buck, of R.E.M., Dream Syndicate frontman Steve Wynn, Scott McCaughey, leader ...