
Disco Demolition Night
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Were They Not Allowed Into Studio 54 Because They Were Black?
Chic songwriter Niall Rogers and his partner Bernard Evans weren't allowed into Studio 54 because they were black. "It's really like this evergreen colonization and destruction of a subculture story," she says. In 1978, six months before Disco Demolition Night, Steve Dahl gets fired when his rock station switches to disco. It takes him three months to find a new job at the new radio station.
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