Disco music was alive and well in 1979. These are three disco AMA winners from 1979 we still dance along with today.

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 ...

Forty years ago, America was filled with tube tops and harness boots, the Atari and the Walkman. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and the U.K. elected Margaret Thatcher. The snowboard was invented ...

had just lost 4:1 to the Detroit Tigers. But the stands are still packed. It's an evening double-header. has promised to blow up a giant crate of disco records. The source of Dahl's animosity towards ...

Like Prince and Michael Jackson, Blondie’s 1979 hit connected one era to the next. Released as a single in 1979, “Heart Of Glass” blends disco with new wave, and if disco was indeed dying, it sure ...

Disco is finally getting its due, thanks to works like 2024's PBS docuseries "Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution" and a new book by a former Detroit journalist who has given the indelible music genre ...

It was a catchphrase you couldn’t avoid hearing three decades ago when a backlash started to develop against the ’70s dance music genre that dominated Top 40 radio stations. The resentment culminated ...

A story that’s about much more than music, “The War On Disco” explores how the powerful anti-disco backlash revealed a cultural divide that to some seemed to be driven by racism and homophobia. The ...

The famous 1979 Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park in Chicago ended about as well as it began. What started as a rallying cry against disco from an aggrieved rock DJ turned into an evening of ...

In 1979, disco music was at its peak. Bell bottom jeans, afros, tight shirts with eye-popping patterns, platform shoes, and lots of gaudy gold jewelry were in. And dancing — lots and lots of dancing — ...