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 ...

FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) - I remember the disco era from the 1970's like it was yesterday. In looking back, very few events have had such an impact on world media, culture, and lifestyles as did disco.

It was the summer of 1979, and disco was taking over the world. Donna Summer, Chic and Gloria Gaynor were at the top of the charts. Just a few months earlier, the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack had ...

The 1970s was an era of orbital disco nights, bell-bottom flashes ... child performers step out from his brothers’ shadow and straight into music history. On October 13, 1979, Michael Jackson’s “Don’t ...

In 1979, three one-hit wonders hit the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100. These are those three terrific songs.

Every new year brings a new round of great music for us to enjoy for decades to come, but few can boast having as good a release catalogue as the year 1979. Maybe folks were trying to squeeze the last ...

With disco music seeping the mainstream airwaves in the late 1970s, people donned their flamboyant outfits and danced the night away under the disco ball. But, in 1979, Dallas residents turned disco ...

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 ...

Oct. 28—Rushmore DeNooyer always wanted to work with the PBS series American Experience. The producer was pulled into the mix when American Experience's Cameo George reached out and told him she was ...

The War on Disco explores the culture war that erupted over the spectacular rise of disco music. Originating in underground Black and gay clubs, disco had unseated rock as America’s most popular music ...