<P> The punk subculture in the United States and United Kingdom was often hostile to disco (although in the UK, many early Sex Pistols fans such as the Bromley Contingent and Jordan quite liked disco, often congregating at nightclubs such as Louise's in Soho and the Sombrero in Kensington . The track "Love Hangover" by Diana Ross, the house anthem at the former, was cited as a particular favourite by many early UK Punks . Also, the film The Great Rock' n' Roll Swindle and its soundtrack album contained a disco medley of Sex Pistols songs, entitled Black Arabs and credited to a group of the same name .) Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys, in the song "Saturday Night Holocaust", likened disco to the cabaret culture of Weimar - era Germany for its apathy towards government policies and its escapism . Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo said that disco was "like a beautiful woman with a great body and no brains", and a product of political apathy of that era . New Jersey rock critic Jim Testa wrote "Put a Bullet Through the Jukebox", a vitriolic screed attacking disco that was considered a punk call to arms . Steve Hillage, shortly prior to his transformation from a progressive rock musician into an electronic artist at the end of the 1970s with the inspiration of disco, disappointed his rockist fans by admitting his love for disco, with Hillage recalling "it's like I'd killed their pet cat ." </P> <P> Anti-disco sentiment was expressed in some television shows and films . A recurring theme on the show WKRP in Cincinnati was a hostile attitude towards disco music . In one scene of the 1980 comedy film Airplane!, a city skyline features a radio tower with a neon - lighted station callsign . A disc jockey voiceover says: "WZAZ in Chicago, where disco lives forever!" Then a wayward airplane slices the radio tower with its wing, the voiceover goes silent, and the lighted callsign goes dark . </P> <P> July 12, 1979, became known as "the day disco died" because of Disco Demolition Night, an anti-disco demonstration in a baseball double - header at Comiskey Park in Chicago . Rock - station DJs Steve Dahl and Garry Meier, along with Michael Veeck, son of Chicago White Sox owner Bill Veeck, staged the promotional event for disgruntled rock fans between the games of a White Sox doubleheader . The event, which involved exploding disco records, ended with a riot, during which the raucous crowd tore out seats and pieces of turf, and caused other damage . The Chicago Police Department made numerous arrests, and the extensive damage to the field forced the White Sox to forfeit the second game to the Detroit Tigers, who had won the first game . Six months prior to the chaotic event, popular progressive rock radio station WDAI (WLS - FM) had suddenly switched to an all - disco format, disenfranchising thousands of Chicago rock fans and leaving Dahl unemployed . </P> <P> On July 21, 1979, the top six records on the U.S. music charts were disco songs . By September 22, there were no disco songs in the US Top 10 chart, with the exception of Herb Alpert's instrumental "Rise," a smooth jazz composition with some disco overtones . Some in the media, in celebratory tones, declared disco "dead" and rock revived . Karen Mixon Cook, the first female disco DJ, stated that people still pause every July 12 for a moment of silence in honor of Disco . Dahl stated in a 2004 interview that disco was "probably on its way out . But I think it (Disco Demolition Night) hastened its demise". </P>

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