After having two reigns as Television Champion, Disco once again became a jobber and a mid-carder in the cruiserweight division.

On July 12, 1979, an anti-disco protest in Chicago called " Disco Demolition Night " had shown that an angry backlash against disco and its culture had emerged in the United States.

The Eagles gave nods to disco with " One of These Nights " ( 1975 ) and " Disco Strangler " ( 1979 ), Paul McCartney & Wings did " Goodnight Tonight " ( 1979 ), Queen did " Another One Bites the Dust " ( 1980 ), The Rolling Stones did " Miss You " ( 1978 ), Chicago did " Street Player " ( 1979 ), The Beach Boys did " Here Comes the Night " ( 1979 ), The Kinks did "( Wish I Could Fly Like ) Superman " ( 1979 ), and the J. Geils Band did " Come Back " ( 1980 ).

The rich orchestral accompaniment that became identified with the disco era conjured up the memories of the big band era — which brought out several artists that recorded and disco-ized some big band arrangements including Perry Como, who re-recorded his 1929 and 1939 hit, " Temptation ", in 1975, as well as Ethel Merman, who released an album of disco songs entitled The Ethel Merman Disco Album in 1979.

Rick Dees, at the time a radio DJ in Memphis, Tennessee, recorded " Disco Duck " ( 1976 ) and " Dis-Gorilla " ( 1977 ); Frank Zappa parodied the lifestyles of disco dancers in " Dancin ' Fool " on his 1979 Sheik Yerbouti album, and " Disco Boy " on his 1976 Zoot Allures album ; and " Weird Al " Yankovic's 1981 eponymous debut album includes a disco song called " Gotta Boogie ", an extended pun on the similarity of the disco subgenre name " boogie " to the American slang word " booger " and its British counterpart " bogey ".

July 12, 1979 became known as " the day disco died " because of Disco Demolition Night, an anti-disco demonstration at Comiskey Park in Chicago.

In 1979, the multi-platinum album Discovery ( or " Disco?

King was honored at New York's " Disco Masters Awards Show " for 3 consecutive years ( 1979 – 1981 ) in recognition of his relentless push of the song.

A version of the song set to a disco beat was recorded by Ethel Merman for her infamous Ethel Merman Disco Album in 1979.

Another version of the theme, ' Blake's 7 Disco ', was recorded by Federation and released in 1979 on Beeb Records with a B-side unconnected with the series.

" Death Disco " ( aka " Swan Lake ") was released as a single in 1979 and reached No. 20 in the charts.

* CHiPs ( two-part episode " Roller Disco ") ( 1979 )

* July 12, 1979: WLUP Chicago disc jockeys Steve Dahl and Garry Meier staged " Disco Demolition Night " at Comiskey Park between games of a scheduled Chicago White Sox-Detroit Tigers double-header.

Before he opened " Eve After Dark " in 1979, Alonzo transformed from poplocking to DJ dances under the name of Disco Construction, which name is a influence from the funk group Brass Construction.

* GQ-an R & B and disco group, best-known for their 1979 hit " Disco Nights ( Rock Freak )"

Disco Demolition Night was a promotional event that took place on Thursday, July 12, 1979, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois, during which a crate filled with disco records was blown up on the field.

Other pop songs based on Space Invaders soon followed, including " Disco Space Invaders " ( 1979 ) by Funny Stuff, " Space Invaders " ( 1980 ) by Playback, and the hit songs " Space Invader " ( 1980 ) by The Pretenders and " Space Invaders " ( 1980 ) by Uncle Vic.

The genre started to become increasingly commercialized, and the large number of disco songs flooding the radio airwaves in 1978-1979 resulted in a growing backlash against it, as epitomized by the " Disco Demolition Night " stunt by a Chicago disc jockey at a July 1979 baseball game at Comiskey Park.

On July 12, 1979, just a few months after Newsweek had reported on the " over " of disco music, a " tongue-in-cheek " promotional event known as Disco Demolition Night was held at Chicago's Comiskey Park.

In 1979, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences decided to add a Best Disco Recording category for the 22nd Grammy Awards, just as disco was " preparing to die ".

Disco hit the television airwaves with Soul Train in 1971 hosted by Don Cornelius, then Marty Angelo's Disco Step-by-Step Television Show in 1975, Steve Marcus ' Disco Magic / Disco 77, Eddie Rivera's Soap Factory and Merv Griffin's Dance Fever, hosted by Deney Terrio, who is credited with teaching actor John Travolta to dance for his upcoming role in the hit movie Saturday Night Fever.

The anti-disco backlash, combined with other societal and radio industry factors, changed the face of pop radio in the years following Disco Demolition Night.

Gaynor's career received a revitalizing spark in the early and mid 1990s with the worldwide Disco revival movement.

DJ Disco Wiz, along with Casanova Fly ( Grandmaster Caz ), formed the pioneering Mighty Force Crew from 183rd Street and Valentine Avenue in the mid-1970s.

After DJ Disco Wiz, the second Puerto Rican DJ was an ex-salsa bassist turned DJ named Charlie Chase, who became the DJ along with DJ Tony Tone for the Cold Crush Brothers.

* Funpark-Magdeburg – Disco complex with several music areas

Organized by Federação Paulista de Disco with the collaboration of BULA.

*< u > Heelflip 180 sex change </ u >, ( Also known as a body varial or Disco Flip ) is where the board spins a heelflip and the skater does a 180 degree spin with his body only.

Disco Fries, also known as " Elvis Fries ," served in New Jersey and select New York City diners, are made with brown gravy, mozzarella, and heavier steak fries.

These editions came with bonus tracks, including " Death Goes To The Disco ", " Dogs Are Everywhere " and " Sink Or Swim ".

* " Number 17 " – Finds Domino scanning the Disco Volante with a Geiger counter in search of the stolen atomic bombs ; reports her to Largo, who takes her prisoner and tortures her

Included here are his club hits " If You Love Me ," " Under a Disco " and " Escape ( Driving To Heaven )," a collaboration with producer 16B.

A concerted drive, including a poll ( scrutinised by the Electoral Reform Society ) to select the track, saw " Bunsen Burner " — with music sampled from the Trammps song " Disco Inferno " and lyrics devised to help his daughter with her chemistry homework — reach number nine in the UK Singles Chart on 6 October, and earned Otway an appearance on Top Of The Pops, BBC Television's flagship popular music programme.

After the dissolution of Violet Fox, Rhoads taught his best friend Kelly Garni how to play bass, and together they formed a band called The Whore ( rehearsing during the day at Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco, a 1970s Hollywood nightspot ), spending several months playing at backyard parties around Los Angeles.

With the addition of Gary Slaughter and Chris Workman, the group attempted several bands, including Disease Disco Factory, a parody of then-popular dance group C + C Music Factory, and Toxic Coma.

The new band went through several names: Kalinin Prospect ( after an avenue in Moscow ); CAD ( Computer-Aided Disco ); and Tech-Noir ( French for black technology, after a nightclub in the film The Terminator ).

It had three principal trim levels ( L, GL and GLX ) with bodyworks of 3 and 5 doors and several versions such as Base, Special, Disco, Chrono, Designer, Fashion, SXi etc.

The song has been featured in several movies, including Love at First Bite, The Last Days of Disco and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

First releasing the single " High Holy Disco Mass " on the major label Polydor Records under the name DVA, the band then released the album Advantage ( with several singles ) under the name Clock DVA.

at The Disco, Mae, Boys Like Girls, All Time Low, Of All Days, Cartel, Set Your Goals and have played several stints on the Vans Warped Tour.

The Billboard Magazine awarded him for " Mejor Artista Latino " ( Best Latin Artist ) and " Mejor Disco Latino " ( Best Latin Album ) several times.

She has several films due for release in 2008-9: Splatter Disco, Psychosomatika, Beyond the Dunwich Horror, Basement Jack, and Schism, which she co-wrote and co-produced.

A misconception about " Disco Duck " is that the voice of the duck itself was provided by Clarence Nash, the original voice of Donald Duck in many Walt Disney cartoons, but on several occasions the Disney Company maintained that Nash never contributed to the song.

The station gave up quickly on both the Disco and the Rocknroll / new wave formats to see both genres of music become popular several years later.

at the Disco have covered the song ( without vocals ) during several live performances in 2011.