CONTENTS

DISCOGRAPHY

AUTHOR’S NOTE

INTRODUCTION

PREFACE

PREFACE

1. MIKE AND BILL VEECK

2. JANET AND STEVE DAHL

3. BRIDGEPORT AND THE SOUTH SIDE

4. THE 1979 CHICAGO WHITE SOX

5. CHICAGO ROCK IN A DISCO WORLD

6. DENNIS DEYOUNG: CHICAGOAN AND LIFELONG WHITE SOX FAN

7. STEVE AND GARRY

8. CHICAGO RADIO OF THE LATE 1970S

9. DISCO

10. NILE RODGERS GOOD TIMES

11. HARRY WAYNE CASEY AND KC AND THE SUNSHINE BAND—GODFATHERS OF DISCO

12. NANCY FAUST: THE ONLY LIVE ACT THAT NIGHT

13. LORELEI—THE ORIGINAL LOOP ROCK GIRL

14. HOW DISCO DEMOLITION WAS DESIGNED

15. HOW DISCO DEMOLITION WENT DOWN

16. LEGENDARY GROUNDSKEEPER ROGER BOSSARD: THE MORNING AFTER

17. DISCO DEMOLITION VENDORS SERVE MEMORIES

18. HOUSE

19. AFTERMATH