Blog: The Days of Lore

Chicago deejay Steve Dahl just wanted to blow up a few Bee Gees records. It was a riot. Literally. July 12 marked the 30-year anniversary of the infamous Disco Demolition Night , the flaming bookend to the "Disco Sucks!" movement started by Dahl back in the summer of 1979. Dahl would hold anti-disco events where boxes of records were blown to bits-it should be noted that Dahl was fired from Chicago's WDAI in 1978 after the station went to an all-disco format. He finally had his largest audience when he was allowed to blow up [...]

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