Surprise…Disco Is Not Dead

Disco is not dead, in fact it's been around all these years cleverly disguised and integrated into some of rocks biggest songs.

If disco died on July 12, 1979 — the date of the infamous Disco Demolition Night, during which crates of dance music were blown up during a baseball game at Chicago’s Comiskey Park while onlookers chanted “Disco sucks” — then pop music has been running on zombie for the past 32 years. It’s an open secret that all the effort, gunpowder and bigoted rage of the organizer, radio DJ Steve Dahl, and his mob didn’t really demolish disco.

Not immediately: The week of that rally, Donna Summer’s “Bad Girls” ascended to the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 and stayed there for five weeks, to be replaced by Chic’s “Good Times.” And not in the long run, either. Disco has shifted and mutated over the years to become more electronic (as in early-’80s boogie and Euro disco), and evolving into a scaled-back permutation via house music (disco luminary/West End Records founder Mel Cheren has been quoted as calling house “disco on a budget”).

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