#OnThisDay in 1979, it was "Disco Demolition Night" at Comiskey Park in Chicago, where the White Sox and Detroit Tigers were playing a double-header.
The plan was to blow up (literally) a bunch of disco albums between games, but it went horribly wrong.
The explosion blew a hole in the field and sent shards of vinyl records flying all over the park. Thousands of fans became unruly and rushed the field tearing up bases, climbing the foul poles, storming and wrecking the team dugouts and forcing the White Sox to forfeit the second game.
Disco Demolition Night went down in history as the beginning of the end of Disco…for a few decades anyway.
The Disco sound has enjoyed a resurgence over the last decade. Last summer for Record Store Day, Foo Fighters renamed themselves "Dee Gees" and released "Hail Satin", a hit album featuring their covers of classic Bee Gees disco hits.
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