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The Night Rock Fans Rioted to Kill Disco—at a Chicago Baseball Game

GREAT AMERICAN SCANDALS

Even though its organizer denies it was intended as such, Chicago’s “Disco Demolition Night” of July 1979 has come to be seen as an ugly frenzy of homophobia and racism.

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