On Thursday, July 12, 1979, as part of his on-going 'Disco Sucks' campaign against disco music, Chicago 'shock jock' DJ Steve Dahl arranged for a crate of vinyl records to be blown up on the field at Comiskey Park between games of a Major League Baseball double-header between the Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Tigers. Many of the records blown to pieces on what was known as Disco Demolition Night weren't even disco records, but simply releases from black artists, giving a movement, which was already tinged with homophobia, an aded racist edge.
One of the artists negatively affected by the 'Disco Sucks' was Chic, the New York band led by guitarist Nile Rodgers and bassist Bernard Edwards. Released on June 4, 1979, the group's feel-good anthem Good Times hit the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart in August 1979, becoming their second US chart-topper, after 1978's Le Freak, but Chic would never have a Top 40 hit in America again. However, Good Times would prove to be a catalyst for one of the biggest rock bands in the world to create the best-selling single of their career.
