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A little over 25 years ago (twenty-five years and three days, to be precise), the Disco craze officially ended with a bang. A controlled demolition of disco records in the middle of Wrigley Field in between a double header of the White Sox and Detroit Tigers.
Posted by Casper at July 15, 2004 04:21 PMDahl [the Chicago area DJ behind the stunt] admits that the cultural phenomenon that sparked the end of the disco era began simply as his response to losing a job at a radio station that had turned to an all-disco format. Even though disco music had become the unofficial soundtrack of the 1970s, his “disco sucks” mantra struck a nerve because so many Midwesterners simply didn’t ‘get it.’
“The average guy in Chicago didn’t have the right clothes, couldn’t get into the right clubs, and thought he’d never get laid again because of disco,” says Dahl.
The Disco Demolition and Steve Dahl became national news the next morning, and the event’s legacy survives to this day – disco bands including ABBA and K.C. and the Sunshine Band agree that the event was the beginning of the end for disco.
We need a grand gesture to put a final round into an industry that makes billions of dollars on nursery rhymes with the wrong message. It is time for the end of RAP. It needs to go, and we need to get together and do something about it...like we did with Disco. At least Disco music required some form of talent. We need to send these no talent RAP people back to the homeless shelters they came from.
Posted by: windy at January 4, 2005 11:06 AM