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Various: Disco Discharge: Pink Pounders, Digging Deeper, European Connection, Disco Boogie | CD review

An outstanding compilation series shows why disco overcame the haters and seeped into pop's DNA, writes Alexis PetridisOf all the bewildering moments in pop history, few are quite as bewildering as Disco Demolition Night. This was an incident that occurred in Chicago in 1979, when a local radio DJ called Steve Dahl invited listeners to bring disco records to a Chicago White Sox baseball game, where he would blow them up. About 90,000 people turned up. They threw beer and firecrackers, and storme...

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Various: Disco Discharge: Pink Pounders, Digging Deeper, European Connection, Disco Boogie | CD review

Guardian Music — An outstanding compilation series shows why disco overcame the haters and seeped into pop's DNA, writes Alexis PetridisOf all the bewildering moments in pop history, few ... more info
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