Saturday Night Fever

December 1977: Number 4 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance musicReleased on 16 December 1977, Saturday Night Fever was the film that broke disco in both senses: it popularised and developed the form at the same time as it froze a vibrant and creative subculture. Saturday Night Fever made disco ubiquitous in 1978. It became a fad – with the inevitable backlash.The statistics tell the story. The film took more than $3m in the first weekend, eventually going on to gross ...

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