The producer behind Travolta's breakout soundtrack for ``Saturday Night Fever''

"Saturday Night Fever" synopsis

Tony Manillo works at a paint store and his only pleasure is going out to the disco and dancing the night away after work, but he begins to want to escape from those boring, uncertain days...

"Saturday Night Fever" (1977) ignited the disco boom, and the Bee Gees' soundtrack of the same name sold 40 million copies worldwide, making it the best-selling song of all time until it was surpassed by Michael Jackson's "Thriller." Record. It was also included in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2010 as a work that remains in the history of film, highlighting all aspects of music, dance, and subculture surrounding the disco era. Other registered films include `` 2001: A Space Odyssey '' (68), `` American Graffiti '' (73), `` Alien '' (79), `` Apocalypse Now '' (79), and `` Back to Home ''.・The Future' ' (85), etc.

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Index

• Was Tony's model a mod?
• Stigwood, a producer working behind the scenes
• Travolta got angry and announced he was leaving the movie.
• The disco boom is back!

Was Tony's model a mod?

The story is based on the novel Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night by British author Nick Cohn, published in New York Magazine in 1976. Tony Manero, a working-class young man living in Brooklyn, New York, goes out to discos every Saturday night and is thrust into the limelight as the Disco King. The original work, which depicts Tony's youthful dreams of dance amidst the realities of class society and racial tensions in his community, was initially marketed as non-fiction.

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However, in the mid-1990s, 20 years after its release, Cohn admitted that the Tony Manero character was a work of fiction. Tony, who vents the depression of everyday life on the dance floor, was actually a young man in his native England who Cohn met by chance at Brooklyn's ``Disco 2001 The Martian'', which Cohn visited at the direction of his editor. It was a fictional character that was a mix of a club lover and a mod friend.

It is somewhat ironic that the Disco King, who took the world by storm through Hollywood movies, was a subculture based mainly on modernists born in England.

Stigwood, a producer working behind the scenes