Disco Demolition at 40: 2 views of an explosive promotion that caught fire
CHICAGO - Sports teams rarely celebrate the forfeiture of a game, but the White Sox are handing out 10,000 T-shirts at Thursday's Yankees game commemorating next month's 40th anniversary of Disco Demolition Night.
Like radio personality Steve Dahl's July 12, 1979, event itself, the giveaway is not without controversy. For one thing, it has reopened old debates about whether there were deeper, uglier undercurrents to the rejection of a musical genre extending to the segments of the population that first embraced it.
The White Sox have issued a statement that the "this year's Disco Demolition T-Shirt giveaway was intended to recognize the anniversary of a historic off-the-field moment that has been connected to the organization over the past 40 years."
Whatever the larger picture of what happened, they were harder to discern at ground level 40 years ago beyond the fact a lot of things went wrong when Dahl and his so-called Insane Coho Lips Anti-Disco Army packed
