“ Even before disco was officially called disco , you had David Mancuso ’s loft parties , in the late 60s , in downtown Manhattan , where he played danceable acid - rock , R&B , mixing it all up , ” said Murphy , who has collaborated with Mancuso in the past .

Question: What was called something?

disco

Question: How was something called something?

officially

Question: What was something called?

disco

Question: Who played something?

David Mancuso

he

Question: When did someone playe something?

in the late 60s

Question: Where did someone playe something?

in the late 60s , in downtown Manhattan

in downtown Manhattan

downtown Manhattan

Question: What did someone playe?

danceable acid - rock , R&B

Question: Where was someone mixing up something?

in the late 60s , in downtown Manhattan

Question: Who is mixing up something?

R&B

Question: What is being mixed?

it

Question: Who said something?

Murphy

Question: Who has collaborated?

Murphy

Question: Who has someone collaborated with?

Mancuso

Question: When has someone collaborated?

in the past


“ They were all about integrating different kinds of people , whether it was class , race , sexual orientation .

Question: Who was integrating something?

They

Question: What was being integrated?

different kinds of people


People like David Morales and Larry Levan were going as kids .

Question: Who was going?

Question: How was someone going?

as kids

Question: What was someone going as?

kids


At the same time Francis Grasso became the first DJ to start mixing records together with two turntables .

Question: When did someone become something?

At the same time

Question: Who became something?

Francis Grasso

Question: What did someone become?

Question: Who started something?

Francis Grasso

Question: What did someone start  doing?

mixing records

Question: Who mixed something?

Francis Grasso

Question: What was mixed?

records

Question: How was something mixed?

together with two turntables


In the mid-70s these other clubs started rising – Studio 54 , which was the glitzy manhattan club , where Andy Warhol , Grace Jones and Liza Minelli hung out , and places like 2001 Odyssey , which were for the working - class Brooklynites . ”

Question: When did something start doing something?

In the mid-70s

Question: What started doing something?

these other clubs

other clubs

Question: What did something start?

rising

Question: When was someone rising?

In the mid-70s

Question: What was rising?

these other clubs

other clubs

Question: Who hung up?

Question: What was working?

class Brooklynites

Question: Who was working?

Brooklynites


But in the end it was Cohn ’s article and Saturday Night Fever that gave the decade its cultural identity .

Question: What gave something?

Saturday Night Fever

Question: What did something give something?

the decade

Question: What did something give?

its cultural identity


“ As a child I was living in Massachusetts , in a white suburban New England small town , listening to rock and pop , ” Murphy said .

Question: Who was living somewhere?

I

Question: Where was someone living?

in Massachusetts

Massachusetts

Question: Who was listening to something?

I

Question: Where did someone listen to something?

in Massachusetts

Question: Where was someone listening to something?

Question: What did someone listen to?

rock and pop

Question: Who said something?

Murphy


“ Then this article happened , the movie came out and disco blew up across white America overnight .

Question: What happened?

this article

Question: What came?

the movie

Question: What was discoed?

the movie

Question: What blew up?

disco

Question: Where did something blow up?

across white America

Question: When did something blow up?

overnight


Me and my friends would dance to the soundtrack at slumber parties .

Question: Who will something?

Me and my friends

Question: What does someone will?

dance

dance to the soundtrack

Question: Where does someone will something?

at slumber parties

Question: Who would dance?

Me and my friends

Question: Where would someone dance?

to the soundtrack

at slumber parties

Question: What would someone dance to?

the soundtrack


I had aunts and uncles who were taking disco - dancing lessons . ”

Question: Who was taking something?

aunts and uncles

Question: What was someone taking?

disco - dancing lessons


Build , baby , build : when radical architects did disco Read more Then came the backlash .

Question: What is being built?

baby

Question: What was built?

the backlash


DJ Steve Dahl headed up a Disco Demolition Night in Chicago in July 1979 .

Question: Who headed up something?

DJ Steve Dahl

Question: What did someone head up?

a Disco Demolition Night

Question: Where did someone head up something?

in Chicago

Chicago

Question: When did someone head up something?

in July 1979

July 1979


People wore “ disco sucks ” T - shirts .

Question: Who wore something?

People

Question: What did someone wear?

“ disco sucks ” T - shirts


The Bee Gees became cheesy , Chic became cheesy , and by the 80s disco was a dirty word .

Question: Who became something?

The Bee Gees

Question: What did someone become?

cheesy

Question: What became something?

Chic

Question: What did something become?

cheesy


“ Saturday Night Fever was probably the thing that killed off disco in the end , ” Murphy said .

Question: What killed up something?

Saturday Night Fever

the thing

Question: What did something kill up?

disco

Question: When did something kill up something?

in the end

Question: Who said something?

Murphy


Cohn , now 70 , lives in Ghent , New York .

Question: Who lives somewhere?

Cohn

Question: Where does someone live?

in Ghent , New York

Ghent , New York


His life reads like a blockbuster of its own – after Tribal Rites he continued writing , true stories mostly , and in 1983 was arrested for conspiring to import millions of dollars worth of heroin and cocaine into the US .

Question: What reads as something?

His life

Question: How does something read?

like a blockbuster of its own

Question: Who continued something?

he

Question: What did someone continue?

writing

Question: Who was writing?

he

Question: Who was arrested?

he

Question: When was someone arrested?

in 1983

Question: Why was someone arrested?

Question: What was someone arrested for?

Question: When did someone conspire to do something?

in 1983

Question: What was someone conspiring to do?

Question: When did someone import something?

in 1983

Question: What was imported?

heroin and cocaine

Question: Where was something being imported?

into the US

the US


The more serious charges were dropped and Cohn was given five years’ probation for possession .

Question: What was dropped?

The more serious charges

Question: Who was given something?

Cohn

Question: What was someone given?

five years’ probation

Question: Why was someone given something?

for possession


His life , the writer then realised , had been unravelling and it was time for a change .

Question: What did someone realise?

His life

Question: Who realised something?

the writer

Question: What was unravelling?

His life

Question: Who was be unravelling?

the writer


“ Why did I decide to come clean in 1997 ?

Question: Who decided to do something?

I

Question: What did someone decide?

to come clean

Question: What did someone decide to do?

come clean

Question: When did someone decide to do something?

in 1997

Question: Who came?

I

Question: How did someone come?

clean

Question: When did someone come?

in 1997


It simply felt like time , ” he told me .

Question: What felted something?

It

Question: What did something felt?

like time

Question: Who told something?

he

Question: Who did someone tell something?

me


“ What seemed OK to me when I was young and stoned no longer sat right .

Question: What did something seem?

OK

Question: Who did something seem something to?

me

Question: When did something seem to do something?

when I was young and stoned

Question: Who was stoned?

I

Question: Where didn't someone sit?

right


Question: What is being let?

Accountability

Question: Who is letting something?

’s

Question: What is someone being let?

say

Question: Who says something?

’s


Cohn has always maintained that what was genuine was the staying power of Saturday Night Fever itself .

Question: Who has maintained something?

Cohn

Question: When did someone maintain something?

always

Question: What did someone maintain?


That central figure , with all his grace , energy and passion .


A nobody who once a week was a somebody .


“ Tribal Rites is about identity , ” he said .

Question: Who said something?

he


“ Finding a place in the world where you can shine .

Question: What is being found?

a place in the world

Question: How is something being found?

where you can shine

Question: Where can someone shine?

a place in the world

Question: Who can shine?

you


What still resonates , to me at least , is the sense of yearning .

Question: What does something resonate with?

the sense of yearning


If I was writing the story today , Vincent might be trans … ”

Question: Who was writing something?

I

Question: What was someone writing?

the story

Question: When was someone writing something?

today