Their record soon became the only country number that rock stations played. Many of those same stations fielded streams of abusive phone calls every time they played a song by a Black artist. “White males eighteen to thirty-four,” a Rolling Stone writer commented, “are the most likely to see disco as the product of homosexuals, blacks, and Latins, and therefore they’re the most likely to respond to appeals to wipe out such threats to their security.” And at Comiskey Park, as he exploded crates of disco
