In July 1979, Dahl announced that anyone in possession of a disco record would receive cheap entry to the next White Sox home game. Joined by a failed rock guitarist called Steve Veek, Dahl took "Disco sucks!" public when Veek secured the use of Comiskey Park, the home of the Chicago White Sox that was owned by his father. What began as on-air mischief soon snowballed into an anti-disco movement. "Midwesterners didn't want that intimidating style shoved down their throats," said Dahl. Dahl encouraged listeners to phone in their disco requests, which he would then destroy on air with explosive sound effects. Specifically, disco.īack in the summer of 1979, the Detroit rock radio DJ Steve Dahl was so aggrieved that his beloved Stones and Zeppelin were being dropped from playlists in favour of Village People, Donna Summer and Chic, that he launched his "Disco sucks!" campaign. Knopper identifies numerous much-discussed factors as being to blame for the state of confusion in the music industry over the past decade – Napster, iTunes and corporate greed among them – but he also reminds us that 30 years ago the biggest threat to music was music itself.
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