![]() ![]() If fans brought in a disco album to be blown up, they’d only have to pay 98 cents to get in. White Sox owner Bill Veeck had a reputation for running wild promotions to get people to buy tickets to the games, and that night, his son Mike had gotten together with a Chicago rock-radio DJ named Steve Dahl to plan a big show that would go down in between the games: Disco Demolition Night. ![]() That night, the Chicago White Sox were scheduled to play a doubleheader against the Detroit Tigers at Comiskey Park. One night in the middle of July 1979, a baseball game turned into a drunken anti-disco clusterfuck riot. In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.
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