Glitz and glam: Saturday Night Fever’s soundtrack, the emblem of 1970s disco and highest selling movie soundtrack of all time, lives on in the upcoming stage production Saturday Night Fever The Musical, which plays at Istana Budaya in Kuala Lumpur in September. — SAM THAM/The Star.
There are iconic scenes from show business that have been burned into our brain through the passage of time. Michael Jackson unveiling the moonwalk at Motown’s 25th anniversary in 1983 was a moment when time stood still. Likewise, the scene where John Travolta busts the “bus stop” on the dance floor in Saturday Night Fever.
How many of us bad dancers have unintentionally (or worse, intentionally) copped a couple of moves from it? Scary thought. But such is the impact of the movie and the dance subculture it spawned back in 1977.
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