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1979 Disco Demolition Night, Local News Coverage

This video is from off air news footage of Steve Dahl’s disco Demolition in 1979.

Duration : 0:8:48


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25 Responses to “1979 Disco Demolition Night, Local News Coverage”

  1. Man that looks like …
    Man that looks like it was fun! too bad I was only 4 or I would have been right there with em!

  2. Well the most …
    Well the most tragic thing is Comiskey Park was teared down in 1991.Could be a full house every night as Wrigley Field & Fenway.

  3. we need something …
    we need something like this for modern day hip hop

  4. So was Bill Curtis, …
    So was Bill Curtis, Johnny Morris and Gene Siskal. Of course the latter two are long since dead, Curtis has aged well, he almost looks the same today in those commercials and on his specials, just all gray hair and some wrinkles.

  5. I still have my …
    I still have my Disco Destruction Army/Insane coho lips T-shirt.
    Disco STILL sucks. ;-)

  6. SonicAnnihilator on August 30th, 2009 at 8:08 am

    I personally hate …
    I personally hate disco, but this stuff that happened back then was purely retarded.

  7. 4:00, anyone else …
    4:00, anyone else got a picture of jack black?

  8. “I’m Bill Kurtis, …
    “I’m Bill Kurtis, and this is Disco Demolition Night….here on WBBM”

  9. And here I was a …
    And here I was a card-carrying member of the Insane Coho Lips back then.

    Of course, Steve Dahl had it out for disco ever since his previous station to WLUP/The Loop, WDAI, changed station formats and left him out of a job. You guessed it — it went all-disco format, and Dahl used to rant on the air about “Disco D-A-I” (as they called themselves) being “Disco D-I-E”.

  10. OMG Steve Dahl was …
    OMG Steve Dahl was soooo young! lol

  11. Yep…He was a …
    Yep…He was a broadcaster on WBBM

  12. yes I agree…disco …
    yes I agree…disco did help race relations..only this tv clip makes disco demolition look like an ‘anti-elitist” movement more than a racist or homophobic movt…hmmm…I wonder…its sad though that one event led to the death of a music era..well thank god for nu-disco and electroclash!

  13. What always really …
    What always really sucked was clumsy people who can’t dance, hatin’ on dance music of all eras.

  14. I think that disco …
    I think that disco was a good thing. Disco came into existence after the civil rights movement. I think that in the long run it helped race relations because it brought people of all different races to-
    gether. Before this music was all black and white.

  15. In America that …
    In America that would be a HUGE waste of time and money. Techno is not that popular in the US so you would just get laughed at.

  16. Techno was killed …
    Techno was killed to the underground in the early 2000s. Techno is already dead in the US, it would be a waste of money and everyone would just laugh at you. Just do mainstream hip hop and pray you dont get shot lol.

  17. There is nothing …
    There is nothing wrong with REAL R&B. It too is pretty much underground.

  18. It lives …
    It lives underground though lol.

  19. Well for those rock …
    Well for those rock enthusiasts…lol you’d be shocked to hear what white women say about their rhythmless sex before with their rhythmless fellas…Sex is a rhythm sport and thats why you see the interracial couplings that you do. Latin chicks and black women cant get enough of white boys with a sexy rhythm about them..lol You have never heard that before!! Pink Floyd rhythm? you’re out of your mind!!! Led Zeppelin rhythm..?? No chance to convince the lost….laughin’ at retard comments..c’ya

  20. floydgenesisnut on August 30th, 2009 at 8:08 am

    Pink Floyd’s Dark …
    Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon was one of the best albums to have sex with. That and Led Zeppelin IV among other rock albums that were voted best albums to have sex with. I suck at dancing in all forms. Like music that has testosterone, takes you places and have fun. Dancing is stupid. Rock and roll had sex appeal. Hip hop and rap is dead. House music you dance like a reject on drugs just like disco three decades before.

  21. I think that one …
    I think that one announcer at 5:01 is the host of Cold Case Files, Bill Kurtis.

  22. angry/drunk/ …
    angry/drunk/retarded crackers always find ways to make me laugh hysterically

  23. Good God …
    Good God MoeHailstone, you just don’t get it do you? Rock Rules!!!! Disco, Hip Hop, Rap ALLL SUCK!!! Rock RULES always has always will. Smart, cool YOUNG ppl are finding it again. Thank God garage rock NEVER died!

  24. toucansam3 …
    toucansam3 HAHAHAHHAAHAHA!

  25. oh you dont now how …
    oh you dont now how wrong you are sir when come to fu*king to rock AND, just because you breakdance, “bring it on all or nothing/ you got served” style to most forms of rock, donst me you cant. finaly bro: tell me one disco/madonna-style pop song that has meaning too it and that wasnt writen by someone who was paid too BUT rather by the artist themselves.

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