One of the musical sounds of the se

One of the musical sounds of the seventies was disco. In fact, it was more than just a sound. it was a new lifestyle-a new way of dancing and of meeting people. When the movies Saturday Night Fever came out in 1997, there was a disco explosion all over the world. Young people (and some not so young) dressed in brightly colored shirts or tops and denim jeans danced the night away in discotheques. Nik Cohn wrote in New York Magazine "The new generation takes few risks; it graduates, looks for a jop, endures. And once a week, on Saturday night, it explodes."
The movie Saturday Night Fever was about this disco trend. It starred John Travolta and Karen Lynn Gorney, and it told of young people in Brooklyn, New York. Every weekend, they escaped from the routine of their lives by dancing their cares away at a local disco. The movie earned over $108 million by the end of the year. The soundtrack included songs by the Bee Gees and other popular artists. The album sold over 30 million copies, making it the number-one selling album of all times, until Michael Jackson's Thriller five years later.