<P> 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 . </P> <P> A huge commercial success, the film significantly helped to popularize disco music around the world and made Travolta, already well known from his role on TV's Welcome Back, Kotter, a household name . The Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, featuring disco songs by the Bee Gees, is one of the best - selling soundtracks of all time . The film showcased aspects of the music, the dancing, and the subculture surrounding the disco era: symphony - orchestrated melodies; haute couture styles of clothing; pre-AIDS sexual promiscuity; and graceful choreography . The sequel Staying Alive (1983) also starred John Travolta and was directed by Sylvester Stallone, but received less positive reception . In 2010, Saturday Night Fever was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry . </P> <P> Anthony "Tony" Manero is a 19 - year - old Italian American man from the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York . He lives with his parents, and works at a dead - end job in a small hardware store . To escape his day to day life, every Saturday night Tony goes to 2001 Odyssey, a local disco club . Tony has four close friends: Joey, Double J, Gus, and Bobby C. A fringe member of his group of friends is Annette, a neighborhood girl who longs for a physical relationship with Tony . </P> <P> Tony and his friends ritually stop on the Verrazano--Narrows Bridge to clown around . The bridge has special significance for Tony as a symbol of escape to a better life on the other side--in more suburban Staten Island . </P>

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