I t was a disco inferno; and no, not that one. Three years after The Trammps released their 1976 album, disco records were set ablaze in a cultural bonfire reminiscent of 1930s Germany.

On a hazy July evening in 1979, an overwhelmingly white crowd packed out the Chicago White Sox’s Comiskey Park to attend Disco Demolition Night. Almost 60,000 fans turned up with records, ready to be burnt, detonated and smashed.