Summary

STEVE DAHL

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: STEVE DAHL
File Number: VW-1453 3 4in
Color: Color
Type: Television
Year: 01/01/1981
Description: Color 1981 STEVE DAHL - Steve Dahl, controversial one time popular disk jockey, is interviewed about his new band Teenage Radiation NOTE: Steve Dahl is the WLVP DJ who organized the infamous 1979 Disco Demolition at Comiskey Park, Chicago, during a Chicago White Sox and Detroit Tigers game At halftime, a large number of disco records were incinerated, inciting a full-scale riot and the forfeiture of the game by the Sox This was the crowning glory of the Disco Sucks movement What an all-white, male mob of hooligans had against a largely black, gay form of musical expression remains a mystery -JR