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 ...

It was an organised backlash against a changing US musical landscape that, by the late 1970s, had seen disco music dominate the charts, and, gasp, influence the likes of Rod Stewart and the Eagles.

Netflix's The Saint of Second Chances tells the story of the Chicago White Sox owners whose notorious "disco demolition" stunt has been blamed for toppling an entire music genre, writes Dorian Lynskey ...