Before house music had a name, there was The Warehouse. From 1977 to 1983, this Chicago nightclub became a sanctuary where Frankie Knuckles transformed disco into something revolutionary. This is the story of the birthplace of house music and the marginalised communities who danced it into existence.

How a DJ who retired in 1983 laid the groundwork for Britain’s house music revolution  and returned two decades later to reclaim his legacy

This article is a companion to our History of House Music series, exploring the UK’s parallel evolution while Jesse Saunders and the Chicago pioneers were creating the sound that would revolutionise the genre.

In our previous exploration of house music's origins, we traced the story of Jesse Saunders' "On & On"—the track most historians accept as the first house record you could actually walk into a store and buy in early 1984. But what happened next?

If we're being precise about what we mean by "first" - the first house record you could buy in a store, pressed to vinyl and available to the public - then "On and On" by Jesse Saunders deserves the crown. Released in early 1984 on Jes Say Records, it was the Big Bang that set the house music universe in motion.

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