41 Years Ago Today; Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park goes south on promoters

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3. Very interesting, thank you.

Though I am of the camp that believes disco was already on it's way out, I've never thought of disliking it as being particularly discriminatory - there was an awful lot of music being made in the '70's by all manner of people of color that was celebrated then as now.

The problem with disco was that the vast majority of it was produced not by actual bands that could tour and promote it but via studio sessions with music made mostly for clubs - kinda like Techno. So you'd have a big disco hit but then no follow-up chance for marketing to make the music stick as a true genre. Today we have EDM but the work done in the studio is followed up by massive festivals all over the world where superstar DJs and producers have the chance to perform.

Disco in my opinion lived as long as it did because it influenced other established artists like Stevie Wonder or the Commodores or the Bee Gees, and through them the disco vibe was kept alive.