Disco Demolition - the night disco music got slaughtered

Of the 16 singles that made the top of the US chart in the first half of 1979, only three were not disco tracks. The previous year, disco singles had been No 1 for 37 weeks out of 52. Than, on July 12 the Disco Demolition Night happened - after that, radio stations that had switched to disco switched back to rock. The Grammy awards cancelled their best-disco-recording category after only one year. Disco labels were changing the designs of 12in-single sleeves to make their products look less like disco records. In the second half of 1979, only one disco single – Michael Jackson’s Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough – made US No 1, for a solitary week. Guardian writes about the ugly event, that was just one step away from racial riots, and what today is similar to the narrative 40 years ago.