Forty years ago, on July 12, 1979, what was supposed to be a wacky promotional stunt by shock-rock DJ Steve Dahl to sell tickets to a double-header White Sox baseball game at Chicago’s Comiskey Park ...
It was an organised backlash against a changing US musical landscape that, by the late 1970s, had seen disco music dominate the charts, and, gasp, influence the likes of Rod Stewart and the Eagles.