Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night

On this date in 1977, “Saturday Night Fever” was released. The story is based upon a 1976 New York Magazine article by British writer Nik Cohn, “Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night,” in the mid-1990s, Cohn acknowledged that he fabricated the article. A newcomer to the United States and a stranger to the disco lifestyle, Cohn was unable to make any sense of the subculture he had been assigned to write about; instead, the character who became Tony Manero was based on an English mod acquaintance of Cohn… read more >

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