A new Netflix documentary tells the story of the Chicago White Sox owners whose notorious 'disco demolition' stunt was blamed for toppling an entire music genre, writes Dorian Lynskey.
, a new Netflix documentary about flamboyant White Sox owner Bill Veeck and his son Mike, approaches it as a baseball story. Indeed, at the time it was seen as a shameful night for major league baseball rather than the symbolic death of disco. The Chicago Tribune damned it as"an outrageous example of irresponsible hucksterism that disgraced the sport of baseball" in a leader column headlined Veeck asked for it.
In the summer of 1979, the flailing White Sox were attracting on average just 15,000 fans to a stadium with a capacity of almost 45,000. Bill Veeck needed a gimmick to boost ticket sales, and Mike, the team's director of marketing, turned to Steve Dahl. The previous Christmas, Dahl had been dropped from Chicago radio station WDAI when it switched, like so many others, from rock to disco.
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