Disco Demolition

Steve Dahl is writing a book (with Dave Hoekstra) about Disco Demolition. From Tom Taylor's NOW...

Steve Dahl “hopes to clear the air about Disco Demolition, the most infamous radio promotion of all time,” with a “definitive book” about it. That’s the report from Chicago scribe Robert Feder, who says Dahl’s working with author Dave Hoekstra and photographer Paul Natkin on “Disco Demolition: The Death of Disco.” They’re aiming an April 2016 release, from publisher Curbside Splendor. And just what was the 1979 “Disco Demolition,” you ask? It occurred when then-WLUP (97.9) jock Steve Dahl was promoting a disco-sucks gag at baseball’s Comiskey Park between games of a double-header. Feder says “He exploded a box of disco records and thousands of drunken fans stormed the field in the ensuing riot.” And “riot” is a not an exaggeration. Feder recalls that “the damage was so severe that the White Sox had to forfeit their second game against the Detroit Tigers.” Nobody was happy, and 24-year-old Dahl took a lot of heat. A reminder that Dahl’s back on terrestrial radio, hosting afternoons on Cumulus talker WLS (890).

Steve was only 24 years old when that happened. Incredible.