The Day That Disco Sucked
Thirty-eight years ago this week, a group of racist, homophobic goons acted out at a doubleheader at Chicago’s Comiskey Park. The evening devolved into a fiery riot when crazed fans stormed the field as part of anti-disco promotional event dubbed Disco Demolition Night. The whole thing was the brainchild of disc jockey Steve Dahl, who dressed up like the general of an anti-disco army and called his followers “The Insane Coho Lips.”
