“ I assumed the character of this grumpy old man that was railing about women in yoga pants because he was too tight to just relax and accept himself in his age and his own ways .

Question: Who assumed something?

I

Question: What did someone assume?

Question: Who was railing?

this grumpy old man

Question: What was someone railing about?

women in yoga pants

Question: Why was someone railing on something?

Question: Who relaxed?

this grumpy old man

he

Question: Who accepted someone?

this grumpy old man

he

Question: Who did someone accept?

himself

Question: How did someone accept someone?

in his age and his own ways


It was meant to sound stupid and creepy . ”

Question: What was meant?

It

Question: What was something meant to do?

to sound stupid and creepy

sound stupid and creepy

Question: What sounded something?

It

Question: What did something sound?

stupid and creepy


Even after all the controversy , Sorrentino told DePetro he has no issue with yoga pants and he owns some himself .

Question: When did someone tell someone something?

Even after all the controversy

after all the controversy

Question: Who told something something?

Sorrentino

Question: Who did someone tell something?

DePetro

Question: What did someone tell someone?

Question: Who owns something?

Sorrentino

he

Question: What does someone own?

some himself


Question: What is being worn?

them

Question: How is something being worn?

all you want

Question: Who wants something?

you


I actually have a pair myself that I was going to wear for the parade tomorrow but I ’m really not happy about the parade . ”

Question: What was someone going to?

a pair myself

Question: Who was going to do something?

I

Question: What was someone going to do?

wear

Question: When was someone going to do something?

tomorrow

Question: What did someone wear for?

a pair myself

the parade

Question: Who wore for something?

I

Question: Why did someone wear?

for the parade

Question: When did someone wear for something?

tomorrow

Question: Who ’m something?

I

Question: What does someone ’m?

really not happy about the parade


Based on a ‘ real’ story , the hit John Travolta film Saturday Night Fever became the prism through which the world viewed disco .

Question: What is something based on?

a ‘ real’ story

Question: What is based on something?

Question: What became something?

Saturday Night Fever

Question: What did something become?

Question: Who viewed something?

the world

Question: What did someone view?

disco


Twenty years later it was revealed that the actual inspiration was a British mod called Chris ...

Question: When was something revealed?

Twenty years later

Question: What was revealed?

it

Question: What is called something?

a British mod

British mod

Question: What was something called?

Chris


Picture it : a writer pens a magazine article and it ’s an instant sensation .

Question: Who pens something?

a writer

Question: What does someone pen?

a magazine article

Question: Who ’s something?

a writer

Question: What ’s something?

it

Question: What does something ’s?

an instant sensation


Producers come calling , he sells the rights for tens of thousands , the tabloids give him a nickname , acquaintances greet him as a friend , cheques flood in , he attends the premiere of his film in Los Angeles with a famous disco singer on his arm .

Question: Who comes doing something?

Producers

Question: What does someone come  doing?

calling

Question: Who is calling?

Producers

Question: Who sells something?

Producers

he

Question: What does someone sell?

the rights

the rights for tens of thousands

Question: Who gives something?

the tabloids

Question: Who does someone give something?

him

Question: What does someone give someone?

a nickname

Question: Who greets someone?

acquaintances

Question: Who does someone greet?

him

Question: How does someone greet someone?

as a friend

Question: What does someone greet someone as?

a friend

Question: Who attends something?

he

Question: What does someone attend?

the premiere of his film

Question: Where does someone attend something?

in Los Angeles

Los Angeles

Question: How does someone attend something?

with a famous disco singer on his arm


It ’s glitzy , it ’s glam , it ’s Hollywood , baby .

Question: What ’s something?

It

Question: What does something ’s?

glitzy

Question: What ’s something?

it

Question: What does something ’s?

glam

Question: What ’s something?

it

Question: What does something ’s?

Hollywood


But as he makes his way through the frenzy outside the theatre , through security , paparazzi and screaming teenage girls , he is filled with moral panic .

Question: Who makes something?

he

Question: What does someone make?

his way

Question: Who is screaming?

teenage girls

Question: Who is filled with something?

he

Question: What is someone filled with?

moral panic


Saturday Night Fever was released in 1977 , and has since grossed $ 285 m worldwide .

Question: What was released?

Saturday Night Fever

Question: When was something released?

in 1977

Question: What has grossed something?

Saturday Night Fever

Question: When has something grossed something?

since

Question: What has something grossed?

$ 285 m

$ 285 m worldwide


The soundtrack became one of the bestselling film album of all time after staying at No 1 for 24 consecutive weeks , reinvigorating the Bee Gees’ career , and its star , John Travolta , became one of the youngest actors to be nominated for the best actor Oscar .

Question: What became something?

The soundtrack

Question: What did something become?

one of the bestselling film album

Question: What was staying?

The soundtrack

Question: Where was someone staying?

at No 1

Question: What was someone staying at?

No 1

Question: How long was someone staying somewhere?

for 24 consecutive weeks

Question: What reinvigorated something?

The soundtrack

Question: What was reinvigorated?

the Bee Gees’ career

Question: Who became something?

John Travolta

Question: What did someone become?

Question: Who was nominated for something?

John Travolta

Question: Who was nominated?

one of the youngest actors

Question: What was someone nominated for?

the best actor Oscar


Decades on , not many remember that the phenomenon was down to one man : Northern Irish rock critic Nik Cohn and his report of 7 June , 1976 for New York magazine , Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Nights , which was published 40 years ago this month .

Question: When did someone remember something?

Decades on

Question: Who remembered something?

not many

Question: What is someone remember?

that the phenomenon was down to one man

Question: What was published?

Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Nights

Question: When was something published?

40 years ago this month


Cohn was the author of a number of books including the 1969 rock history Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom .

Question: What included something?

a number of books

Question: What includes something?

books

Question: What does something include?


A protege of swinging London , he partied with rock stars , joined the Who on tour , and is said by some to have been instrumental in the genesis of Bowie ’s Ziggy Stardust .

Question: What was someone swinging?

London

Question: Who partied with someone?

A protege of swinging London

Question: Who partied?

he

Question: Who did someone party with?

rock stars

Question: Who joined something?

he

Question: What did someone join?

the Who

the Who on tour

Question: Where did someone join someone?

on tour

Question: Who was said?

he

Question: Who is someone said by?

some

Question: What is someone said as?


He had his portrait shot by Iain Macmillan – the photographer behind the Beatles’ Abbey Road cover – and from the age of 18 was contributing briefings about mods and rockers to the Observer .

Question: What was shotted?

his portrait

portrait

Question: Who shotted something?

Iain Macmillan

Question: Who was contributing something?

He

Question: When was someone contributing for something?

from the age of 18

Question: What was someone contributing?

briefings

briefings about mods and rockers

Question: Who was someone contributing something to?

the Observer


After crossing the Atlantic and signing on with New York magazine in 1975 , the writer , who came to feel disenchanted with the establishment music business , persuaded the mag ’s founder and editor Clay Felker to let him document disco – a new , largely ethnic , largely gay underground trend that had taken over parts of New York City .

Question: What was crossed?

the Atlantic

Question: What did someone sign on?

New York magazine

Question: When did someone sign somewhere?

in 1975

Question: Who signed on something?

the writer

Question: Who came to do something?

the writer

Question: What did someone come to do?

Question: Who felt something?

the writer

Question: What did someone feel?

disenchanted

Question: Who persuaded someone something?

the writer

Question: Who did someone persuade?

Clay Felker

Question: What did someone persuade someone to do?

to let him document disco

Question: Who letted someone something?

Clay Felker

Question: Who did someone let something?

him

Question: What did someone let someone  do?

document disco

Question: Who documented something?

Clay Felker

him

Question: What did someone document?

disco

Question: What has taken something?

largely gay underground trend

gay underground trend

Question: What has something taken?

parts of New York City


The writer was painfully aware that everything Fever had brought him – the fame , the fortune – was the result of a lie The result was the profile of an “ ultimate Face ” .

Question: What has brought something?

everything Fever

Question: Who brought something?

Fever

Question: Who did someone bring something?

him


Vincent , a young Italian - American worked in a hardware store during the week and partied at a disco club called 2001 Odyssey on the weekend .

Question: Who worked somewhere?

Vincent

Question: Where did someone work?

in a hardware store

Question: What did someone work in?

a hardware store

Question: When did someone work somewhere?

during the week

Question: Who partied somewhere?

Vincent

Question: Where did someone party?

at a disco club called 2001 Odyssey

Question: When did someone party somewhere?

2001 Odyssey

on the weekend

Question: What was called something?

a disco club

Question: What was something called?

2001 Odyssey

Question: When was something called something?

on the weekend


Vincent “ was the very best dancer in Bay Ridge … he owned 14 floral shirts , five suits , eight pairs of shoes , three overcoats , and had appeared on American Bandstand ” .

Question: Who owned something?

Vincent “

he

Question: Where did someone own something?

in Bay Ridge …

Question: What did someone own?

14 floral shirts

Question: Who appeared somewhere?

Vincent “

he

Question: Where did someone appear?

on American Bandstand ”

Question: What did someone appear on?

American Bandstand

American Bandstand ”


He and his friends knew nothing of flower power , Bob Dylan or Ken Kesey .

Question: Who knew something?

He and his friends

Question: What did someone know?

nothing of flower power


They were opulent but poor , proud but shy .


“ The new generation takes few risks , ” Cohn wrote .

Question: What takes something?

The new generation

Question: What does something take?

few risks

Question: Who wrote something?

Cohn


“ It goes through high school , obedient ; graduates , looks for a job , saves and plans .

Question: What goes?

It

Question: Where does something go?

through high school

Question: What does something go into?

high school

Question: Who looks for something?

graduates

Question: What does someone look for?

a job , saves and plans


And once a week , on Saturday night , its one great moment of release , it explodes . ”

Question: When does something explode?

once a week

on Saturday night

Saturday night

Question: What explodes?

its one great moment of release

one great moment of release

it


The intro declared : “ Everything described in this article is factual and was either witnessed by me or told to me directly by the people involved .

Question: What declared something?

The intro

Question: What did something declare?

Question: What is described?

Everything

Question: Where is something described?

in this article

Question: What is something described in?

this article

Question: What was witnessed?

Everything

Everything described in this article

Question: Who was something witnessed by?

me

Question: Who witnessed something?

the people involved

Question: What was told?

Everything

Everything described in this article

Question: Who was someone told to?

me

Question: Who told someone?

the people involved

Question: Who was involved?

the people

people


Only the names of the main characters have been changed . ”

Question: What has been changed?

the names of the main characters


Facebook Twitter Pinterest Watch a trailer for Saturday Night Fever The rest is cinema history : film rights were sold to producer Robert Stigwood , who had just signed a three - picture deal with a young TV actor called John Travolta .

Question: What is being watched?

a trailer

The rest is cinema history

Question: What was sold?

film rights

Question: Who was something sold to?

producer Robert Stigwood

Robert Stigwood

Question: Who producer something?

Robert Stigwood

Question: Who signed something?

Robert Stigwood

Question: What did someone sign?

a three - picture deal

Question: Who did someone sign something for?

a young TV actor called John Travolta

Question: Who was called something?

a young TV actor

Question: What was someone called?

John Travolta


Screenwriter Norman Wexler transformed Vincent into Tony Manero .

Question: Who transformed something?

Screenwriter Norman Wexler

Norman Wexler

Question: Who did someone transform?

Vincent

Question: Where did someone transform someone?

into Tony Manero

Question: What did someone transform someone into?

Tony Manero


So unprecedented was the fanfare that when Stigwood ’s 23-year - old assistant Kevin McCormick traipsed through Los Angeles looking for a director , one agent , according to Vanity Fair , told him , “ Kid , my directors do movies .

Question: Who traipsed somewhere?

Kevin McCormick

Question: Where did someone traipse?

through Los Angeles

Question: What did someone traipse into?

Los Angeles

Question: Who was looking for something?

Kevin McCormick

Question: Where did someone look for something?

Los Angeles

Question: What did someone look for?

a director

Question: What is according to something?

one agent

Question: Who is something according to?

Vanity Fair

Question: Who told someone something?

one agent

Question: Who did someone tell something?

him

Question: What did someone tell someone?

“ Kid , my directors do movies


Director John Badham had no such qualms , and in December 1977 his movie took $ 11 m in its first 11 days and Travolta became an overnight sensation .

Question: When did something tyek something?

in December 1977

December 1977

in its first 11 days

Question: What took something?

his movie

Question: What did something tyek?

$ 11 m

Question: When did someone become something?

in December 1977

Question: Who became something?

Travolta

Question: What did someone become?

an overnight sensation


Question: When did something come something?

Twenty years later

Question: What did something come?

a bombshell


In December 1997 New York magazine published an article in which Cohn confessed that there never was a Vincent .

Question: When did someone publish something?

In December 1997

December 1997

Question: What published something?

New York magazine

Question: What did someone publish?

an article

Question: When did someone confess something?

In December 1997

Question: Who confessed something?

Cohn

Question: What did someone confess?

that there never was a Vincent


There was no “ Lisa ” , “ Billy ” , “ John James ” , “ Lorraine ” or “ Donna ” either .


While 2001 Odyssey existed , it was n’t the way the writer described it in 1976 .

Question: What existed?

2001 Odyssey

Question: Who described something?

the writer

Question: What did someone describe?

it

Question: When did someone describe something?

in 1976


The whole scene of disco - loving Italians , as mythologised in Saturday Night Fever , was exaggerated .

Question: Who was loved?

Italians

Question: What is mythologised?

Question: Where was someone mythologised?

in Saturday Night Fever

Question: What is something mythologised in?

Saturday Night Fever


The most bizarre detail was that his disco protagonists were in fact based on mods Cohn had known in London .

Question: What was based on something?

his disco protagonists

disco protagonists

Question: What was something based on?

mods

mods Cohn had known in London

Question: What was known?

mods

Question: Who had known something?

Cohn

Question: Where was someone known something?

in London

Question: Where did someone know something?

London


The writer was “ painfully aware ” that everything Fever had brought him – the fame , the fortune – was the result of a lie .

Question: What has brought something?

everything Fever

Question: Who did someone bring something?

him


The real story went like this : in 1976 Cohn met a disco dancer named Tu Sweet , who introduced him to the clubs of New York , including one in Bay Ridge called 2001 Odyssey .

Question: What went?

The real story

Question: How did something go?

like this

Question: When did someone meet someone?

in 1976

Question: Who met someone?

Cohn

Question: Who did someone meet?

a disco dancer named Tu Sweet

Question: When was someone named something?

in 1976

Question: Who was named something?

a disco dancer

disco dancer

Question: What was someone named?

Tu Sweet

Question: When did someone introduce someone?

in 1976

Question: Who introduced someone?

a disco dancer named Tu Sweet

Tu Sweet

Question: Who did someone introduce?

him

Question: Where did someone introduce someone?

to the clubs of New York

Question: What did someone introduce someone to?

the clubs of New York

Question: What includes something?

the clubs of New York

Question: What is included?

one in Bay Ridge

one in Bay Ridge called 2001 Odyssey

Question: What is called something?

one in Bay Ridge

Bay Ridge

Question: What is something called?

2001 Odyssey


One night the two trawled through the underbelly of New York – a land of auto shops , transmission specialists and alignment centres – to find the place .

Question: When did someone trawl somewhere?

One night

Question: Who trawled?

the two

Question: Where did someone trawl?

through the underbelly of New York

Question: What did someone trawl through?

the underbelly of New York

Question: Who found something?

the two

Question: What is being found?

the place


A drunken brawl was in progress and as Cohn opened the cab door one of the guys reeled over the gutter and threw up over his trouser leg .

Question: Who opened something?

Cohn

Question: What did someone open?

the cab door

Question: Who reeled?

one of the guys

Question: Where did someone reel?

over the gutter

Question: What did someone reel into?

the gutter

Question: Who threw up?

one of the guys

Question: What did someone throw up?

over his trouser leg

his trouser leg


So he just upped and returned to the safe comforts of Manhattan .

Question: Who upped?

he

Question: What did someone up something to?

the safe comforts of Manhattan

Question: Who returned somewhere?

he

Question: Where did someone return?

to the safe comforts of Manhattan

Question: What did someone return to?

the safe comforts of Manhattan


One image stayed with the writer , though , that of a figure in flared crimson pants and a black body shirt standing in the doorway of the club and calmly watching the action .

Question: What stayed?

One image

Question: Who did something stay with?

the writer

Question: What is flared?

crimson pants

crimson pants and a black body shirt

Question: What was standing?

Question: Where is something standing?

in the doorway of the club

Question: Who watched something?

the writer

Question: How is someone watching something?

calmly

Question: What was someone watching?

the action


There was a style about him , Cohn said , a sense of his own specialness that reminded the writer of a teen gang in his hometown of Derry and a mod named Chris he ’d met in London in 1965 .

Question: Who said something?

Cohn

Question: What did someone say?

Question: What reminded someone something?

a sense of his own specialness

Question: What did something remind?

the writer of a teen gang

Question: What was named something?

a mod

mod

Question: What was something named?

Chris

Question: Who ’d something?

a mod named Chris

he

Question: Where did someone ’d something?

in London

London

Question: When did someone ’d something?

in 1965

Question: Where did someone meet?

in London

London

Question: When did someone meet somewhere?

in 1965


Question: Who made something?

we

Question: What did someone myek something?

Sister Sledge


We Are Family Read more When Cohn went back to Odyssey he did n’t see the young man in the doorway again .

Question: Who went somewhere?

Cohn

Question: Where did someone go?

back to Odyssey

Question: Who saw someone?

Cohn

he

Question: What did someone see?

the young man

Question: Where did someone see someone?

in the doorway


“ Plus , I made a lousy interviewer , ” he wrote .

Question: Who made something?

I

Question: What did someone myek?

a lousy interviewer

Question: Who wrote something?

he


“ I knew nothing about this world , and it showed .

Question: Who knew something?

I

Question: What did someone know?

nothing about this world

Question: What showed something?

it


Quite literally , I did n’t speak the language .

Question: Who spoke something?

I

n’t

Question: What did someone speak?

the language


Question: Who faked something?

I

Question: What did someone fake?

it


I conjured up the story of the figure in the doorway , and named him Vincent .

Question: Who conjured up something?

I

Question: What did someone conjure up?

the story of the figure in the doorway

Question: Who named someone something?

I

Question: Who did someone name something?

him

Vincent


Taking all I knew about the snake - charmer in Derry and , more especially , about Chris the mod in London , I translated them as best I could to Brooklyn .

Question: Who took something?

I

Question: Who knew about something?

I

I

Question: What did someone know about?

the snake - charmer

the snake - charmer in Derry

Question: Who translated something?

I

Question: What did someone translate?

them

Question: How did someone translate something?

as best I could to Brooklyn


Then I went back to Bay Ridge in daylight and noted the major landmarks .

Question: Who went somewhere?

I

Question: Where did someone go?

back to Bay Ridge

Question: When did someone go somewhere?

in daylight

Question: Who noted something?

I

Question: What did someone note?

the major landmarks


I walked some streets , went into a couple of stores .

Question: Who walked somewhere?

I

Question: Where did someone walk?

some streets

Question: Who went into something?

I

Question: Where did someone go?

into a couple of stores

Question: What did someone go into?

a couple of stores


Studied the clothes , the gestures , the walks .

Question: What was studied?

the clothes

the clothes , the gestures , the walks


Imagined how it would feel to burn up , all caged energies , with no outlet but the dancefloor and the rituals of Saturday night .

Question: What was imagined?

how it would feel to burn up

Question: What will something?

it

Question: What does something will?

feel

Question: What will feel?

it

Question: What will something feel to do?

to burn up

burn up

Question: What burn up?

it

Question: What is caged?

energies


Question: Who wrote something?

I

Question: What did someone write?

it

Question: How did someone write something?

all up


Question: What was presented?

it

Question: How was something presented?

as fact

Question: What was something presented as?

fact


A premiere party for Saturday Night Fever with John Travolta , right , next to a bearded Nik Cohn , Travolta ’s mother below them , and producer Robert Stigwood ( far left ) .


So how did he get away with one of the most daring acts of journalistic forgery ?

Question: Who got something?

he

Question: Where did someone get?

away

Question: What did someone get something with?


While Tribal Rites reads like a novelisation , it must be understood in the context of the time it was written : the tail - end of the era of New Journalism , where writers used literary techniques and a subjective perspective to present fact as fiction .

Question: What reads?

Tribal Rites

Question: How does something read?

like a novelisation

Question: What does something read as?

a novelisation

Question: What is be understood?

Tribal Rites

it

Question: How is something be understood?

Question: What was written?

Tribal Rites

it

Question: Who used something?

writers

Question: What did someone use?

literary techniques

Question: Why did someone use something?

to present fact as fiction


It followed similar works by the likes of Tom Wolfe , Gay Talese , Truman Capote , Hunter S Thompson and Norman Mailer .

Question: What followed something?

It

Question: What did something follow?

similar works


When I first approached Cohn for this article , he said he no longer wanted to discuss the topic .

Question: Who approached someone?

I

Question: Who did someone approach?

Cohn

Question: Why did someone approach someone?

for this article

Question: Who said something?

Cohn

he

Question: What did someone say?

Question: Who didn't want to do something?

Cohn

he

Question: What didn't someone want?

to discuss the topic

Question: What didn't someone want to do?

discuss the topic

Question: Who didn't discuss something?

Cohn

he

Question: What wasn't someone discuss?

the topic


But after several back - and - forth emails , he did say that he doubted any magazine would publish the Tribal Rites piece today .

Question: When did someone say something?

after several back - and - forth emails

Question: Who said something?

he

Question: What did someone say?

Question: Who doubted something?

he

he

Question: What did someone doubt?

Question: What will to do something?

any magazine

Question: What would something?

magazine

Question: What did something will  do?

publish the Tribal Rites piece

Question: When did something will something?

today

Question: What would publish something?

any magazine

Question: What didn't something publish?

the Tribal Rites piece

Question: When would something be published?

today


“ It reads to me as obvious fiction , albeit based on observation and some knowledge of disco culture .

Question: What reads to something?

It

Question: Who does something read to?

me

Question: How does something read for something?

as obvious fiction

Question: What does something read for?

obvious fiction

Question: What is something based on?

observation


No way could it sneak past customs now .

Question: What doesn't sneak?

it

Question: Where doesn't something sneak?

past customs

Question: When doesn't something sneak?

now


In the 60s and 70s , the line between fact and fiction was blurry .


Many magazine writers used fictional techniques to tell supposedly factual stories .

Question: Who used something?

Many magazine writers

magazine writers

Question: What did someone use?

fictional techniques

Question: Why did someone use something?

to tell supposedly factual stories

Question: Who told something?

Many magazine writers

magazine writers

Question: What told something?

fictional techniques

Question: What did someone tell?

supposedly factual stories


Question: What was taken?

No end of liberties


Question: Who asked something?

Few editors

Question: What did someone aske?

tough questions


For the most part it was a case of ‘ do n’t ask , do n’t tell’ .

Question: What does someone ask?

do n’t tell’

Question: What is someone ask?

n’t tell’

Question: What is being tell’?

n’t


“ Magazine writing then was basically a boys’ club .


Along with some great writing came reams of self - indulgent bollocks .

Question: What came something?

some great writing

Question: What did something come?

reams of self - indulgent bollocks


Tribal Rites being fiction was never a great secret .


I remember once , at the end of a long night , blurting out to a publisher that the story was made up .

Question: Who remembers something?

I

Question: When does someone remember something?

once

at the end of a long night

Question: What does someone remember?

Question: Who blurted somewhere?

I

Question: When did someone blurt up something?

at the end of a long night

Question: Who did someone blurt up?

a publisher

Question: What did someone blurt up?

that the story was made up

Question: What was made up?

the story


‘ You do n’t say,’ the publisher drawled .

Question: Who say,’ something?

You

the publisher

Question: What is say,’?

n’t

Question: Who drawled?

the publisher


For context , Gay Talese , now a bestselling author and one of the pioneers of new journalism and author of ‘ Frank Sinatra Has a Cold’ , explains that his intention as a young journalist was to write short stories using real characters .

Question: Who explains something?

Gay Talese

Question: What does someone explain?

Question: Who wrote something?

Gay Talese

a young journalist

Question: What did someone write?

short stories

Question: How did someone write something?

using real characters

Question: What used something?

short stories

Question: What was used?

real characters


“ I have always been inspired by great short story writers , the first being the French writer Guy de Maupassant , ” he said .

Question: Who has been inspired?

I

Question: When has someone been inspired?

always

Question: Who has inspired someone?

great short story writers

Question: Who said something?

he


“ Later I also began reading short stories by famous novelists – F Scott Fitzgerald , Ernest Hemingway and more contemporary writers such as John O’Hara , Irwin Shaw , Carson McCullers , John Cheever and others .

Question: When did someone begin something?

Later

Question: Who began something?

I

Question: What did someone begin  doing?

reading short stories

Question: When did someone read something?

Later

Question: Who read something?

I

Question: What did someone read?

short stories


My newspaper articles were all written as if short stories : there was scene - setting , dialogue , much description of people and places . ”

Question: What was written?

My newspaper articles

Question: How was something written?

as if short stories


But while the articles were presented as stories , they were never fictionalised .

Question: What was presented?

the articles

articles

Question: How was something presented?

as stories

Question: What was something presented as?

stories

Question: What wasn't be fictionalised?

the articles

they


“ Nothing was invented , all the names of the characters were real , and verifiably truthful . ”

Question: What was invented?

Nothing


Caroline Miller , who edited New York magazine at the time of Cohn ’s confession , said her predecessor , Felker , would n’t have published Tribal Rites if he thought it fabricated .

Question: Who edited something?

Caroline Miller

Question: What did someone edit?

New York magazine

Question: When did someone edit something?

at the time of Cohn ’s confession

Question: Who said something?

Caroline Miller

Question: What did someone say?

Question: Who would something?

her predecessor , Felker

Felker

Question: What did someone will?

n’t

Question: Who has published something?

Felker

n’t

Question: What has someone published?

Tribal Rites

Question: Why did someone publish something?

if he thought it fabricated

Question: Who thought something?

Felker

he

Question: What did someone thinke?

it fabricated

Question: Who fabricated something?

Felker

Question: What was fabricated?

Tribal Rites

it


“ That said , remember that 70s Brooklyn was a foreign country to most New York magazine editors , ” she told me .

Question: What said something?

That

Question: What did someone say?

Question: What did someone remember?

Question: Who told something?

she

Question: Who did someone tell something?

me


“ It was n’t cool , and some of them had probably never been there – even to Brooklyn Heights , which was Norman Mailer territory .


So they may not have had good radar for credibility .


Also , after the zeitgeisty opening about the blue - collar disco tribe , [ Tribal Rites ] is all narrative , and that much narrative detail tends to read as real .

Question: What tends to do something?

that much narrative detail

narrative detail

Question: What does something tend to do?

to read as real

read as real

Question: What is read?

that much narrative detail

narrative detail

Question: How does something read?

as real

Question: What does something read as?

real


What Vincent was thinking as he looked in the mirror … ” Miller and her team published Cohn ’s admission because it was newsworthy .

Question: Who was thinking?

Vincent

Question: How was someone thinking?

as he looked in the mirror

Question: Who looked somewhere?

Vincent

he

Question: Where did someone look?

in the mirror

Question: What did someone look in?

the mirror

Question: Who published something?

Miller and her team

Question: What did someone publish?

Cohn

’s admission

Question: Why did someone publish something?

because it was newsworthy


“ Here ’s a guy basically bragging about fabricating a legendary story and getting away with it , ” she said .

Question: Who is ’s?

a guy

Question: Who is bragging about something?

a guy

Question: What is someone bragging about?

Question: Who fabricated something?

a guy

Question: What was fabricated?

a legendary story

Question: Who was getting?

a guy

Question: How did someone get?

away

Question: What was someone getting something with?

it

Question: Who said something?

she


“ And it certainly added to our understanding of pop culture myth - making – the idea that a mashup of people and scenes Nik had collected on both side of the Atlantic could go essentially unchallenged , and have such staying power . ”

Question: What added to something?

it

Question: What did something add to?

our understanding of pop culture myth

Question: What made something?

pop culture myth

Question: Who had collected somewhere?

Nik

Question: Where did someone collect something?

on both side of the Atlantic

Question: What did someone collect something on?

both side of the Atlantic

Question: How can something go?

essentially unchallenged


Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night by Nik Cohn as featured on a 1976 New York magazine cover .

Question: Who was featured?

Nik Cohn

Question: Where was something featured?

on a 1976 New York magazine cover

Question: What was something featured on?

a 1976 New York magazine cover

Question: When was something featured?


Cohn has said that were it not for Jim McMullan ’s accompanying illustrations the piece might never have seen daylight .

Question: Who has said something?

Cohn

Question: What has someone said?

Question: What is accompanying something?

Jim McMullan ’s

Question: What is accompanying?

illustrations

Question: What didn't see something?

the piece

Question: What didn't something see?

daylight


McMullan based these on the photographs he took in 2001 Odyssey but , fundamentally , he never met Cohn ’s protagonist .

Question: Who based something?

McMullan

Question: What did someone base?

these

Question: What did someone base something on?

the photographs

the photographs he took in 2001 Odyssey

Question: Who took something?

McMullan

he

Question: What did someone tyek?

the photographs

photographs

Question: When did someone tyek something?

in 2001 Odyssey

2001 Odyssey

Question: Who didn't meet someone?

McMullan

he

Question: Who didn't be met?

Cohn

Question: What didn't someone meet?

’s protagonist


“ I went to the club twice and moved around , taking my photos without interacting much with any of the patrons , ” McMullan recalled .

Question: Who went somewhere?

I

Question: Where did someone go?

to the club

Question: How did someone go somewhere?

twice

Question: Who moved somewhere?

I

Question: Where did someone move?

around

Question: Who took something?

I

Question: What did someone take?

my photos

Question: How did someone take something?

Question: Who didn't interact with something?

I

Question: How wasn't someone interact?

much

Question: Who wasn't someone interact with?

any of the patrons

Question: Who recalled something?

McMullan


“ Nik took a different path through the crowds so we did n’t exchange notes .

Question: Who took something?

Nik

Question: What did someone tyek?

a different path

a different path through the crowds

Question: Where did someone tyek something?

through the crowds

Question: Who exchanged something?

n’t

Question: What did someone exchange?

notes


It ’s a universal story ... working - class kids going out and getting off their heads to American black music Bill Brewster “ I finished my paintings several weeks before Nik finished his story

Question: What ’s something?

It

Question: What does something ’s?

a universal story

Question: Who is working?

class kids

kids

Question: Who is going somewhere?

kids

Question: Where is someone going?

out

Question: Who is getting up something?

kids

Question: What is someone getting up?

their heads

Question: Who finished something?

I

Question: What did someone finish?

my paintings

Question: When did someone finish something?

Question: Who finished something?

Nik

Question: What did someone finish?

his story


so I was n’t really reacting to how he saw the scene at the club .

Question: Who was reacting?

I

Question: Who was reacting to something?

n’t

Question: What was someone reacting to?

how he saw the scene at the club

Question: Who saw something?

he

Question: What did someone see?

the scene

Question: Where did someone see something?

at the club


It did seem like an amazingly dramatic story arc and the kind of ‘ working - class’ story he was already famous for . ”

Question: What seemed?

It

Question: What did something seem?

like an amazingly dramatic story arc

Question: How did something seem?


It so happened that the design director of New York magazine , Milton Glaser , was amazed by the reportage style of the paintings .

Question: What happened?

It


“ Clay also came to see the work that way ...

Question: Who came?

Clay

Question: What did someone come to do?

to see the work that way

see the work that way

Question: Who saw something?

Clay

Question: What did someone see?

the work

the work that way


I suspect that because the art was all ready to go before Nik finished writing , it put some pressure on him to get it written .

Question: Who suspects something?

I

Question: What does someone suspect?

Question: What went?

the art

Question: When did something go?

before Nik finished writing

Question: Who finished something?

Nik

Question: What did someone finish?

writing

Question: Who put something?

Nik

Question: What put something?

it

Question: What did something put?

some pressure

Question: Who did something put something on?

him

Question: Why did something put something?

to get it written

Question: Who got something?

Nik

him

Question: What did someone get?

it written

Question: Who was written?

Nik

Question: What was written?

it


Had the paintings not already impressed Milton and Clay , I suppose it might have been easier to scuttle the whole project . ”

Question: What has impressed someone?

the paintings

Question: Who has something impress?

Milton and Clay

Question: Who supposes something?

I

Question: What does someone suppose?

Question: What is being scuttled?

the whole project


Did McMullan ’s art indicate a truth to the piece ?

Question: What indicated something?

McMullan ’s art

Question: What did something indicate?

a truth to the piece


While Cohn ’s descriptions of the club ’s “ Faces ” were based on the working class in England , they were n’t entirely off the mark .

Question: What was something based on?

the working class in England

Question: What was working?

class

Question: Where was someone working?

in England

England


“ Just like the Italian - Americans , the mods shopped for that perfect shirt , ” Colleen “ Cosmo ” Murphy , an American radio broadcaster , DJ , producer and founder of Classic Album Sundays , explained to me over coffee in London one morning .

Question: Who shopped for something?

the mods

Question: What did someone shop for?

that perfect shirt

Question: Who explained to something?

Colleen “ Cosmo ” Murphy

Question: Who did someone explain to?

me

Question: What did someone explain to someone?

over coffee

over coffee in London

Question: When did someone explain to something?

one morning


“ It was about looking like they were better off than they really were , sticking their money into things like music and clothes .

Question: How was someone looking?

Question: What was stuck?

their money

Question: Where was something stuck?

into things like music and clothes

Question: What was something stuck into?

things like music and clothes


They bought records , certain types of trousers , certain types of jackets .

Question: Who bought something?

They

Question: What did someone buy?

records


“ It ’s that culture of people who have their regular job during the week and live to go out on the weekend .

Question: What ’s something?

It

Question: What does something ’s?

Question: Who lives?

culture of people

people

Question: What does someone live to do?

to go out on the weekend

Question: Who goes somewhere?

culture of people

people

Question: Where does someone go?

out

Question: When does someone go somewhere?

on the weekend


A blue - collar worker in Brooklyn is n’t going to be defined by their job .

Question: Who is going?

A blue - collar worker in Brooklyn

n’t

Question: Why is someone going?

to be defined by their job

Question: What is someone going to do?

be defined by their job

Question: Who is defined?

A blue - collar worker in Brooklyn

n’t

Question: How is someone defined?

by their job

Question: What is someone defined by?

their job


Who they really are is who they are when they go out .

Question: Who goes somewhere?

they

Question: Where does someone go?

out


A mod might be bricklayer , but they ’re a mod . ”

Question: What ’re something?

A mod

Question: Who ’re something?

they

Question: What does someone ’re?

a mod


Bill Brewster , former editor of Mixmag USA and founder of Djhistory.com , echoed this : “ It ’s a universal story that had been going on for decades even before there were DJs playing records , ” he said .

Question: Who echoed something?

Bill Brewster

Question: What did someone echo?

this

Question: What ’s something?

It

Question: What does something ’s?

a universal story

Question: What was be going?

a universal story

Question: How long has something been going somewhere?

for decades

Question: Who said something?

he


“ Working - class kids going out on a Friday and Saturday and getting off their heads to American black music .

Question: Who is going somewhere?

kids

Question: Where is someone going?

out

Question: When is someone going somewhere?

on a Friday and Saturday

Question: Who is getting up something?

kids

Question: What is someone getting up?

their heads

American black music


It was happening in the cellars of Paris during the occupation in terms of jazz records .

Question: What was happening?

It

Question: Where was something happening?

in the cellars of Paris

Question: When was something happening somewhere?

during the occupation

Question: How was something happening somewhere?

in terms of jazz records


Those archetypes , even though Cohn based them on people in London , were obviously happening in New York as well .

Question: What did someone base?

Those archetypes

them

Question: Who based something?

Cohn

Question: Who did someone base something on?

people in London

Question: What was happening?

Those archetypes

Question: Where was something happening?

in New York

in New York as well

New York


I think it was an educated guess on his part , and a correct one . ”

Question: Who thinks something?

I

Question: What does someone think?


The multi - million - selling soundtrack album featured hits from the Bee Gees and topped the US chart for 24 consecutive weeks .

Question: What is being sold?

soundtrack album

Question: What featured something?

Question: What did something feature?

hits from the Bee Gees

Question: What topped something?

Question: What did someone top?

the US chart

Question: How long did someone top something?

for 24 consecutive weeks

24 consecutive weeks


Disco as a genre and culture had already been gathering pace in New York so Saturday Night Fever was just the tipping point of something that had been going on for a while .

Question: What was gather something?

Disco

Disco as a genre and culture

Question: What was something gathering?

pace

Question: Where was something gathering?

in New York

New York

Question: What was be going?

something

Question: When was something going somewhere?

for a while


“ 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


Based on a ‘ real’ story , the hit John Travolta film Saturday Night Fever became the prism through which the world viewed disco .

Question: What is something based on?

a ‘ real’ story

Question: What is based on something?

Question: What became something?

Saturday Night Fever

Question: What did something become?

Question: Who viewed something?

the world

Question: What did someone view?

disco


Twenty years later it was revealed that the actual inspiration was a British mod called Chris ...

Question: When was something revealed?

Twenty years later

Question: What was revealed?

it

Question: What is called something?

a British mod

British mod

Question: What was something called?

Chris


Picture it : a writer pens a magazine article and it ’s an instant sensation .

Question: Who pens something?

a writer

Question: What does someone pen?

a magazine article

Question: Who ’s something?

a writer

Question: What ’s something?

it

Question: What does something ’s?

an instant sensation


Producers come calling , he sells the rights for tens of thousands , the tabloids give him a nickname , acquaintances greet him as a friend , cheques flood in , he attends the premiere of his film in Los Angeles with a famous disco singer on his arm .

Question: Who comes doing something?

Producers

Question: What does someone come  doing?

calling

Question: Who is calling?

Producers

Question: Who sells something?

Producers

he

Question: What does someone sell?

the rights

the rights for tens of thousands

Question: Who gives something?

the tabloids

Question: Who does someone give something?

him

Question: What does someone give someone?

a nickname

Question: Who greets someone?

acquaintances

Question: Who does someone greet?

him

Question: How does someone greet someone?

as a friend

Question: What does someone greet someone as?

a friend

Question: Who attends something?

he

Question: What does someone attend?

the premiere of his film

Question: Where does someone attend something?

in Los Angeles

Los Angeles

Question: How does someone attend something?

with a famous disco singer on his arm


It ’s glitzy , it ’s glam , it ’s Hollywood , baby .

Question: What ’s something?

It

Question: What does something ’s?

glitzy

Question: What ’s something?

it

Question: What does something ’s?

glam

Question: What ’s something?

it

Question: What does something ’s?

Hollywood


But as he makes his way through the frenzy outside the theatre , through security , paparazzi and screaming teenage girls , he is filled with moral panic .

Question: Who makes something?

he

Question: What does someone make?

his way

Question: Who is screaming?

teenage girls

Question: Who is filled with something?

he

Question: What is someone filled with?

moral panic


Saturday Night Fever was released in 1977 , and has since grossed $ 285 m worldwide .

Question: What was released?

Saturday Night Fever

Question: When was something released?

in 1977

Question: What has grossed something?

Saturday Night Fever

Question: When has something grossed something?

since

Question: What has something grossed?

$ 285 m

$ 285 m worldwide


The soundtrack became one of the bestselling film album of all time after staying at No 1 for 24 consecutive weeks , reinvigorating the Bee Gees’ career , and its star , John Travolta , became one of the youngest actors to be nominated for the best actor Oscar .

Question: What became something?

The soundtrack

Question: What did something become?

one of the bestselling film album

Question: What was staying?

The soundtrack

Question: Where was someone staying?

at No 1

Question: What was someone staying at?

No 1

Question: How long was someone staying somewhere?

for 24 consecutive weeks

Question: What reinvigorated something?

The soundtrack

Question: What was reinvigorated?

the Bee Gees’ career

Question: Who became something?

John Travolta

Question: What did someone become?

Question: Who was nominated for something?

John Travolta

Question: Who was nominated?

one of the youngest actors

Question: What was someone nominated for?

the best actor Oscar


Decades on , not many remember that the phenomenon was down to one man : Northern Irish rock critic Nik Cohn and his report of 7 June , 1976 for New York magazine , Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Nights , which was published 40 years ago this month .

Question: When did someone remember something?

Decades on

Question: Who remembered something?

not many

Question: What is someone remember?

that the phenomenon was down to one man

Question: What was published?

Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Nights

Question: When was something published?

40 years ago this month


Cohn was the author of a number of books including the 1969 rock history Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom .

Question: What included something?

a number of books

Question: What includes something?

books

Question: What does something include?


A protege of swinging London , he partied with rock stars , joined the Who on tour , and is said by some to have been instrumental in the genesis of Bowie ’s Ziggy Stardust .

Question: What was someone swinging?

London

Question: Who partied with someone?

A protege of swinging London

Question: Who partied?

he

Question: Who did someone party with?

rock stars

Question: Who joined something?

he

Question: What did someone join?

the Who

the Who on tour

Question: Where did someone join someone?

on tour

Question: Who was said?

he

Question: Who is someone said by?

some

Question: What is someone said as?


He had his portrait shot by Iain Macmillan – the photographer behind the Beatles’ Abbey Road cover – and from the age of 18 was contributing briefings about mods and rockers to the Observer .

Question: What was shotted?

his portrait

portrait

Question: Who shotted something?

Iain Macmillan

Question: Who was contributing something?

He

Question: When was someone contributing for something?

from the age of 18

Question: What was someone contributing?

briefings

briefings about mods and rockers

Question: Who was someone contributing something to?

the Observer


After crossing the Atlantic and signing on with New York magazine in 1975 , the writer , who came to feel disenchanted with the establishment music business , persuaded the mag ’s founder and editor Clay Felker to let him document disco – a new , largely ethnic , largely gay underground trend that had taken over parts of New York City .

Question: What was crossed?

the Atlantic

Question: What did someone sign on?

New York magazine

Question: When did someone sign somewhere?

in 1975

Question: Who signed on something?

the writer

Question: Who came to do something?

the writer

Question: What did someone come to do?

Question: Who felt something?

the writer

Question: What did someone feel?

disenchanted

Question: Who persuaded someone something?

the writer

Question: Who did someone persuade?

Clay Felker

Question: What did someone persuade someone to do?

to let him document disco

Question: Who letted someone something?

Clay Felker

Question: Who did someone let something?

him

Question: What did someone let someone  do?

document disco

Question: Who documented something?

Clay Felker

him

Question: What did someone document?

disco

Question: What has taken something?

largely gay underground trend

gay underground trend

Question: What has something taken?

parts of New York City


The writer was painfully aware that everything Fever had brought him – the fame , the fortune – was the result of a lie The result was the profile of an “ ultimate Face ” .

Question: What has brought something?

everything Fever

Question: Who brought something?

Fever

Question: Who did someone bring something?

him


Vincent , a young Italian - American worked in a hardware store during the week and partied at a disco club called 2001 Odyssey on the weekend .

Question: Who worked somewhere?

Vincent

Question: Where did someone work?

in a hardware store

Question: What did someone work in?

a hardware store

Question: When did someone work somewhere?

during the week

Question: Who partied somewhere?

Vincent

Question: Where did someone party?

at a disco club called 2001 Odyssey

Question: When did someone party somewhere?

2001 Odyssey

on the weekend

Question: What was called something?

a disco club

Question: What was something called?

2001 Odyssey

Question: When was something called something?

on the weekend


Vincent “ was the very best dancer in Bay Ridge … he owned 14 floral shirts , five suits , eight pairs of shoes , three overcoats , and had appeared on American Bandstand ” .

Question: Who owned something?

Vincent “

he

Question: Where did someone own something?

in Bay Ridge …

Question: What did someone own?

14 floral shirts

Question: Who appeared somewhere?

Vincent “

he

Question: Where did someone appear?

on American Bandstand ”

Question: What did someone appear on?

American Bandstand

American Bandstand ”


He and his friends knew nothing of flower power , Bob Dylan or Ken Kesey .

Question: Who knew something?

He and his friends

Question: What did someone know?

nothing of flower power


“ The new generation takes few risks , ” Cohn wrote .

Question: What takes something?

The new generation

Question: What does something take?

few risks

Question: Who wrote something?

Cohn


“ It goes through high school , obedient ; graduates , looks for a job , saves and plans .

Question: What goes?

It

Question: Where does something go?

through high school

Question: What does something go into?

high school

Question: Who looks for something?

graduates

Question: What does someone look for?

a job , saves and plans


And once a week , on Saturday night , its one great moment of release , it explodes . ”

Question: When does something explode?

once a week

on Saturday night

Saturday night

Question: What explodes?

its one great moment of release

one great moment of release

it


The intro declared : “ Everything described in this article is factual and was either witnessed by me or told to me directly by the people involved .

Question: What declared something?

The intro

Question: What did something declare?

Question: What is described?

Everything

Question: Where is something described?

in this article

Question: What is something described in?

this article

Question: What was witnessed?

Everything

Everything described in this article

Question: Who was something witnessed by?

me

Question: Who witnessed something?

the people involved

Question: What was told?

Everything

Everything described in this article

Question: Who was someone told to?

me

Question: Who told someone?

the people involved

Question: Who was involved?

the people

people


Only the names of the main characters have been changed . ”

Question: What has been changed?

the names of the main characters


Facebook Twitter Pinterest Watch a trailer for Saturday Night Fever The rest is cinema history : film rights were sold to producer Robert Stigwood , who had just signed a three - picture deal with a young TV actor called John Travolta .

Question: What is being watched?

a trailer

The rest is cinema history

Question: What was sold?

film rights

Question: Who was something sold to?

producer Robert Stigwood

Robert Stigwood

Question: Who producer something?

Robert Stigwood

Question: Who signed something?

Robert Stigwood

Question: What did someone sign?

a three - picture deal

Question: Who did someone sign something for?

a young TV actor called John Travolta

Question: Who was called something?

a young TV actor

Question: What was someone called?

John Travolta


Screenwriter Norman Wexler transformed Vincent into Tony Manero .

Question: Who transformed something?

Screenwriter Norman Wexler

Norman Wexler

Question: Who did someone transform?

Vincent

Question: Where did someone transform someone?

into Tony Manero

Question: What did someone transform someone into?

Tony Manero


So unprecedented was the fanfare that when Stigwood ’s 23-year - old assistant Kevin McCormick traipsed through Los Angeles looking for a director , one agent , according to Vanity Fair , told him , “ Kid , my directors do movies .

Question: Who traipsed somewhere?

Kevin McCormick

Question: Where did someone traipse?

through Los Angeles

Question: What did someone traipse into?

Los Angeles

Question: Who was looking for something?

Kevin McCormick

Question: Where did someone look for something?

Los Angeles

Question: What did someone look for?

a director

Question: What is according to something?

one agent

Question: Who is something according to?

Vanity Fair

Question: Who told someone something?

one agent

Question: Who did someone tell something?

him

Question: What did someone tell someone?

“ Kid , my directors do movies


Director John Badham had no such qualms , and in December 1977 his movie took $ 11 m in its first 11 days and Travolta became an overnight sensation .

Question: When did something tyek something?

in December 1977

December 1977

in its first 11 days

Question: What took something?

his movie

Question: What did something tyek?

$ 11 m

Question: When did someone become something?

in December 1977

Question: Who became something?

Travolta

Question: What did someone become?

an overnight sensation


Question: When did something come something?

Twenty years later

Question: What did something come?

a bombshell


In December 1997 New York magazine published an article in which Cohn confessed that there never was a Vincent .

Question: When did someone publish something?

In December 1997

December 1997

Question: What published something?

New York magazine

Question: What did someone publish?

an article

Question: When did someone confess something?

In December 1997

Question: Who confessed something?

Cohn

Question: What did someone confess?

that there never was a Vincent


While 2001 Odyssey existed , it was n’t the way the writer described it in 1976 .

Question: What existed?

2001 Odyssey

Question: Who described something?

the writer

Question: What did someone describe?

it

Question: When did someone describe something?

in 1976


The whole scene of disco - loving Italians , as mythologised in Saturday Night Fever , was exaggerated .

Question: Who was loved?

Italians

Question: What is mythologised?

Question: Where was someone mythologised?

in Saturday Night Fever

Question: What is something mythologised in?

Saturday Night Fever


The most bizarre detail was that his disco protagonists were in fact based on mods Cohn had known in London .

Question: What was based on something?

his disco protagonists

disco protagonists

Question: What was something based on?

mods

mods Cohn had known in London

Question: What was known?

mods

Question: Who had known something?

Cohn

Question: Where was someone known something?

in London

Question: Where did someone know something?

London


The writer was “ painfully aware ” that everything Fever had brought him – the fame , the fortune – was the result of a lie .

Question: What has brought something?

everything Fever

Question: Who did someone bring something?

him


The real story went like this : in 1976 Cohn met a disco dancer named Tu Sweet , who introduced him to the clubs of New York , including one in Bay Ridge called 2001 Odyssey .

Question: What went?

The real story

Question: How did something go?

like this

Question: When did someone meet someone?

in 1976

Question: Who met someone?

Cohn

Question: Who did someone meet?

a disco dancer named Tu Sweet

Question: When was someone named something?

in 1976

Question: Who was named something?

a disco dancer

disco dancer

Question: What was someone named?

Tu Sweet

Question: When did someone introduce someone?

in 1976

Question: Who introduced someone?

a disco dancer named Tu Sweet

Tu Sweet

Question: Who did someone introduce?

him

Question: Where did someone introduce someone?

to the clubs of New York

Question: What did someone introduce someone to?

the clubs of New York

Question: What includes something?

the clubs of New York

Question: What is included?

one in Bay Ridge

one in Bay Ridge called 2001 Odyssey

Question: What is called something?

one in Bay Ridge

Bay Ridge

Question: What is something called?

2001 Odyssey


One night the two trawled through the underbelly of New York – a land of auto shops , transmission specialists and alignment centres – to find the place .

Question: When did someone trawl somewhere?

One night

Question: Who trawled?

the two

Question: Where did someone trawl?

through the underbelly of New York

Question: What did someone trawl through?

the underbelly of New York

Question: Who found something?

the two

Question: What is being found?

the place


A drunken brawl was in progress and as Cohn opened the cab door one of the guys reeled over the gutter and threw up over his trouser leg .

Question: Who opened something?

Cohn

Question: What did someone open?

the cab door

Question: Who reeled?

one of the guys

Question: Where did someone reel?

over the gutter

Question: What did someone reel into?

the gutter

Question: Who threw up?

one of the guys

Question: What did someone throw up?

over his trouser leg

his trouser leg


So he just upped and returned to the safe comforts of Manhattan .

Question: Who upped?

he

Question: What did someone up something to?

the safe comforts of Manhattan

Question: Who returned somewhere?

he

Question: Where did someone return?

to the safe comforts of Manhattan

Question: What did someone return to?

the safe comforts of Manhattan


One image stayed with the writer , though , that of a figure in flared crimson pants and a black body shirt standing in the doorway of the club and calmly watching the action .

Question: What stayed?

One image

Question: Who did something stay with?

the writer

Question: What is flared?

crimson pants

crimson pants and a black body shirt

Question: What was standing?

Question: Where is something standing?

in the doorway of the club

Question: Who watched something?

the writer

Question: How is someone watching something?

calmly

Question: What was someone watching?

the action


There was a style about him , Cohn said , a sense of his own specialness that reminded the writer of a teen gang in his hometown of Derry and a mod named Chris he ’d met in London in 1965 .

Question: Who said something?

Cohn

Question: What did someone say?

Question: What reminded someone something?

a sense of his own specialness

Question: What did something remind?

the writer of a teen gang

Question: What was named something?

a mod

mod

Question: What was something named?

Chris

Question: Who ’d something?

a mod named Chris

he

Question: Where did someone ’d something?

in London

London

Question: When did someone ’d something?

in 1965

Question: Where did someone meet?

in London

London

Question: When did someone meet somewhere?

in 1965


Question: Who made something?

we

Question: What did someone myek something?

Sister Sledge


We Are Family Read more When Cohn went back to Odyssey he did n’t see the young man in the doorway again .

Question: Who went somewhere?

Cohn

Question: Where did someone go?

back to Odyssey

Question: Who saw someone?

Cohn

he

Question: What did someone see?

the young man

Question: Where did someone see someone?

in the doorway


“ Plus , I made a lousy interviewer , ” he wrote .

Question: Who made something?

I

Question: What did someone myek?

a lousy interviewer

Question: Who wrote something?

he


“ I knew nothing about this world , and it showed .

Question: Who knew something?

I

Question: What did someone know?

nothing about this world

Question: What showed something?

it


Quite literally , I did n’t speak the language .

Question: Who spoke something?

I

n’t

Question: What did someone speak?

the language


Question: Who faked something?

I

Question: What did someone fake?

it


I conjured up the story of the figure in the doorway , and named him Vincent .

Question: Who conjured up something?

I

Question: What did someone conjure up?

the story of the figure in the doorway

Question: Who named someone something?

I

Question: Who did someone name something?

him

Vincent


Taking all I knew about the snake - charmer in Derry and , more especially , about Chris the mod in London , I translated them as best I could to Brooklyn .

Question: Who took something?

I

Question: Who knew about something?

I

I

Question: What did someone know about?

the snake - charmer

the snake - charmer in Derry

Question: Who translated something?

I

Question: What did someone translate?

them

Question: How did someone translate something?

as best I could to Brooklyn


Then I went back to Bay Ridge in daylight and noted the major landmarks .

Question: Who went somewhere?

I

Question: Where did someone go?

back to Bay Ridge

Question: When did someone go somewhere?

in daylight

Question: Who noted something?

I

Question: What did someone note?

the major landmarks


I walked some streets , went into a couple of stores .

Question: Who walked somewhere?

I

Question: Where did someone walk?

some streets

Question: Who went into something?

I

Question: Where did someone go?

into a couple of stores

Question: What did someone go into?

a couple of stores


Studied the clothes , the gestures , the walks .

Question: What was studied?

the clothes

the clothes , the gestures , the walks


Imagined how it would feel to burn up , all caged energies , with no outlet but the dancefloor and the rituals of Saturday night .

Question: What was imagined?

how it would feel to burn up

Question: What will something?

it

Question: What does something will?

feel

Question: What will feel?

it

Question: What will something feel to do?

to burn up

burn up

Question: What burn up?

it

Question: What is caged?

energies


Question: Who wrote something?

I

Question: What did someone write?

it

Question: How did someone write something?

all up


Question: What was presented?

it

Question: How was something presented?

as fact

Question: What was something presented as?

fact


So how did he get away with one of the most daring acts of journalistic forgery ?

Question: Who got something?

he

Question: Where did someone get?

away

Question: What did someone get something with?


While Tribal Rites reads like a novelisation , it must be understood in the context of the time it was written : the tail - end of the era of New Journalism , where writers used literary techniques and a subjective perspective to present fact as fiction .

Question: What reads?

Tribal Rites

Question: How does something read?

like a novelisation

Question: What does something read as?

a novelisation

Question: What is be understood?

Tribal Rites

it

Question: How is something be understood?

Question: What was written?

Tribal Rites

it

Question: Who used something?

writers

Question: What did someone use?

literary techniques

Question: Why did someone use something?

to present fact as fiction


It followed similar works by the likes of Tom Wolfe , Gay Talese , Truman Capote , Hunter S Thompson and Norman Mailer .

Question: What followed something?

It

Question: What did something follow?

similar works


When I first approached Cohn for this article , he said he no longer wanted to discuss the topic .

Question: Who approached someone?

I

Question: Who did someone approach?

Cohn

Question: Why did someone approach someone?

for this article

Question: Who said something?

Cohn

he

Question: What did someone say?

Question: Who didn't want to do something?

Cohn

he

Question: What didn't someone want?

to discuss the topic

Question: What didn't someone want to do?

discuss the topic

Question: Who didn't discuss something?

Cohn

he

Question: What wasn't someone discuss?

the topic


But after several back - and - forth emails , he did say that he doubted any magazine would publish the Tribal Rites piece today .

Question: When did someone say something?

after several back - and - forth emails

Question: Who said something?

he

Question: What did someone say?

Question: Who doubted something?

he

he

Question: What did someone doubt?

Question: What will to do something?

any magazine

Question: What would something?

magazine

Question: What did something will  do?

publish the Tribal Rites piece

Question: When did something will something?

today

Question: What would publish something?

any magazine

Question: What didn't something publish?

the Tribal Rites piece

Question: When would something be published?

today


“ It reads to me as obvious fiction , albeit based on observation and some knowledge of disco culture .

Question: What reads to something?

It

Question: Who does something read to?

me

Question: How does something read for something?

as obvious fiction

Question: What does something read for?

obvious fiction

Question: What is something based on?

observation


No way could it sneak past customs now .

Question: What doesn't sneak?

it

Question: Where doesn't something sneak?

past customs

Question: When doesn't something sneak?

now


Many magazine writers used fictional techniques to tell supposedly factual stories .

Question: Who used something?

Many magazine writers

magazine writers

Question: What did someone use?

fictional techniques

Question: Why did someone use something?

to tell supposedly factual stories

Question: Who told something?

Many magazine writers

magazine writers

Question: What told something?

fictional techniques

Question: What did someone tell?

supposedly factual stories


Question: What was taken?

No end of liberties


Question: Who asked something?

Few editors

Question: What did someone aske?

tough questions


For the most part it was a case of ‘ do n’t ask , do n’t tell’ .

Question: What does someone ask?

do n’t tell’

Question: What is someone ask?

n’t tell’

Question: What is being tell’?

n’t


Along with some great writing came reams of self - indulgent bollocks .

Question: What came something?

some great writing

Question: What did something come?

reams of self - indulgent bollocks


I remember once , at the end of a long night , blurting out to a publisher that the story was made up .

Question: Who remembers something?

I

Question: When does someone remember something?

once

at the end of a long night

Question: What does someone remember?

Question: Who blurted somewhere?

I

Question: When did someone blurt up something?

at the end of a long night

Question: Who did someone blurt up?

a publisher

Question: What did someone blurt up?

that the story was made up

Question: What was made up?

the story


‘ You do n’t say,’ the publisher drawled .

Question: Who say,’ something?

You

the publisher

Question: What is say,’?

n’t

Question: Who drawled?

the publisher


For context , Gay Talese , now a bestselling author and one of the pioneers of new journalism and author of ‘ Frank Sinatra Has a Cold’ , explains that his intention as a young journalist was to write short stories using real characters .

Question: Who explains something?

Gay Talese

Question: What does someone explain?

Question: Who wrote something?

Gay Talese

a young journalist

Question: What did someone write?

short stories

Question: How did someone write something?

using real characters

Question: What used something?

short stories

Question: What was used?

real characters


“ I have always been inspired by great short story writers , the first being the French writer Guy de Maupassant , ” he said .

Question: Who has been inspired?

I

Question: When has someone been inspired?

always

Question: Who has inspired someone?

great short story writers

Question: Who said something?

he


“ Later I also began reading short stories by famous novelists – F Scott Fitzgerald , Ernest Hemingway and more contemporary writers such as John O’Hara , Irwin Shaw , Carson McCullers , John Cheever and others .

Question: When did someone begin something?

Later

Question: Who began something?

I

Question: What did someone begin  doing?

reading short stories

Question: When did someone read something?

Later

Question: Who read something?

I

Question: What did someone read?

short stories


My newspaper articles were all written as if short stories : there was scene - setting , dialogue , much description of people and places . ”

Question: What was written?

My newspaper articles

Question: How was something written?

as if short stories


But while the articles were presented as stories , they were never fictionalised .

Question: What was presented?

the articles

articles

Question: How was something presented?

as stories

Question: What was something presented as?

stories

Question: What wasn't be fictionalised?

the articles

they


“ Nothing was invented , all the names of the characters were real , and verifiably truthful . ”

Question: What was invented?

Nothing


Caroline Miller , who edited New York magazine at the time of Cohn ’s confession , said her predecessor , Felker , would n’t have published Tribal Rites if he thought it fabricated .

Question: Who edited something?

Caroline Miller

Question: What did someone edit?

New York magazine

Question: When did someone edit something?

at the time of Cohn ’s confession

Question: Who said something?

Caroline Miller

Question: What did someone say?

Question: Who would something?

her predecessor , Felker

Felker

Question: What did someone will?

n’t

Question: Who has published something?

Felker

n’t

Question: What has someone published?

Tribal Rites

Question: Why did someone publish something?

if he thought it fabricated

Question: Who thought something?

Felker

he

Question: What did someone thinke?

it fabricated

Question: Who fabricated something?

Felker

Question: What was fabricated?

Tribal Rites

it


“ That said , remember that 70s Brooklyn was a foreign country to most New York magazine editors , ” she told me .

Question: What said something?

That

Question: What did someone say?

Question: What did someone remember?

Question: Who told something?

she

Question: Who did someone tell something?

me


Also , after the zeitgeisty opening about the blue - collar disco tribe , [ Tribal Rites ] is all narrative , and that much narrative detail tends to read as real .

Question: What tends to do something?

that much narrative detail

narrative detail

Question: What does something tend to do?

to read as real

read as real

Question: What is read?

that much narrative detail

narrative detail

Question: How does something read?

as real

Question: What does something read as?

real


What Vincent was thinking as he looked in the mirror … ” Miller and her team published Cohn ’s admission because it was newsworthy .

Question: Who was thinking?

Vincent

Question: How was someone thinking?

as he looked in the mirror

Question: Who looked somewhere?

Vincent

he

Question: Where did someone look?

in the mirror

Question: What did someone look in?

the mirror

Question: Who published something?

Miller and her team

Question: What did someone publish?

Cohn

’s admission

Question: Why did someone publish something?

because it was newsworthy


“ Here ’s a guy basically bragging about fabricating a legendary story and getting away with it , ” she said .

Question: Who is ’s?

a guy

Question: Who is bragging about something?

a guy

Question: What is someone bragging about?

Question: Who fabricated something?

a guy

Question: What was fabricated?

a legendary story

Question: Who was getting?

a guy

Question: How did someone get?

away

Question: What was someone getting something with?

it

Question: Who said something?

she


“ And it certainly added to our understanding of pop culture myth - making – the idea that a mashup of people and scenes Nik had collected on both side of the Atlantic could go essentially unchallenged , and have such staying power . ”

Question: What added to something?

it

Question: What did something add to?

our understanding of pop culture myth

Question: What made something?

pop culture myth

Question: Who had collected somewhere?

Nik

Question: Where did someone collect something?

on both side of the Atlantic

Question: What did someone collect something on?

both side of the Atlantic

Question: How can something go?

essentially unchallenged


Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night by Nik Cohn as featured on a 1976 New York magazine cover .

Question: Who was featured?

Nik Cohn

Question: Where was something featured?

on a 1976 New York magazine cover

Question: What was something featured on?

a 1976 New York magazine cover

Question: When was something featured?


Cohn has said that were it not for Jim McMullan ’s accompanying illustrations the piece might never have seen daylight .

Question: Who has said something?

Cohn

Question: What has someone said?

Question: What is accompanying something?

Jim McMullan ’s

Question: What is accompanying?

illustrations

Question: What didn't see something?

the piece

Question: What didn't something see?

daylight


McMullan based these on the photographs he took in 2001 Odyssey but , fundamentally , he never met Cohn ’s protagonist .

Question: Who based something?

McMullan

Question: What did someone base?

these

Question: What did someone base something on?

the photographs

the photographs he took in 2001 Odyssey

Question: Who took something?

McMullan

he

Question: What did someone tyek?

the photographs

photographs

Question: When did someone tyek something?

in 2001 Odyssey

2001 Odyssey

Question: Who didn't meet someone?

McMullan

he

Question: Who didn't be met?

Cohn

Question: What didn't someone meet?

’s protagonist


“ I went to the club twice and moved around , taking my photos without interacting much with any of the patrons , ” McMullan recalled .

Question: Who went somewhere?

I

Question: Where did someone go?

to the club

Question: How did someone go somewhere?

twice

Question: Who moved somewhere?

I

Question: Where did someone move?

around

Question: Who took something?

I

Question: What did someone take?

my photos

Question: How did someone take something?

Question: Who didn't interact with something?

I

Question: How wasn't someone interact?

much

Question: Who wasn't someone interact with?

any of the patrons

Question: Who recalled something?

McMullan


“ Nik took a different path through the crowds so we did n’t exchange notes .

Question: Who took something?

Nik

Question: What did someone tyek?

a different path

a different path through the crowds

Question: Where did someone tyek something?

through the crowds

Question: Who exchanged something?

n’t

Question: What did someone exchange?

notes


It ’s a universal story ... working - class kids going out and getting off their heads to American black music Bill Brewster “ I finished my paintings several weeks before Nik finished his story

Question: What ’s something?

It

Question: What does something ’s?

a universal story

Question: Who is working?

class kids

kids

Question: Who is going somewhere?

kids

Question: Where is someone going?

out

Question: Who is getting up something?

kids

Question: What is someone getting up?

their heads

Question: Who finished something?

I

Question: What did someone finish?

my paintings

Question: When did someone finish something?

Question: Who finished something?

Nik

Question: What did someone finish?

his story


so I was n’t really reacting to how he saw the scene at the club .

Question: Who was reacting?

I

Question: Who was reacting to something?

n’t

Question: What was someone reacting to?

how he saw the scene at the club

Question: Who saw something?

he

Question: What did someone see?

the scene

Question: Where did someone see something?

at the club


It did seem like an amazingly dramatic story arc and the kind of ‘ working - class’ story he was already famous for . ”

Question: What seemed?

It

Question: What did something seem?

like an amazingly dramatic story arc

Question: How did something seem?


It so happened that the design director of New York magazine , Milton Glaser , was amazed by the reportage style of the paintings .

Question: What happened?

It


“ Clay also came to see the work that way ...

Question: Who came?

Clay

Question: What did someone come to do?

to see the work that way

see the work that way

Question: Who saw something?

Clay

Question: What did someone see?

the work

the work that way


I suspect that because the art was all ready to go before Nik finished writing , it put some pressure on him to get it written .

Question: Who suspects something?

I

Question: What does someone suspect?

Question: What went?

the art

Question: When did something go?

before Nik finished writing

Question: Who finished something?

Nik

Question: What did someone finish?

writing

Question: Who put something?

Nik

Question: What put something?

it

Question: What did something put?

some pressure

Question: Who did something put something on?

him

Question: Why did something put something?

to get it written

Question: Who got something?

Nik

him

Question: What did someone get?

it written

Question: Who was written?

Nik

Question: What was written?

it


Had the paintings not already impressed Milton and Clay , I suppose it might have been easier to scuttle the whole project . ”

Question: What has impressed someone?

the paintings

Question: Who has something impress?

Milton and Clay

Question: Who supposes something?

I

Question: What does someone suppose?

Question: What is being scuttled?

the whole project


Did McMullan ’s art indicate a truth to the piece ?

Question: What indicated something?

McMullan ’s art

Question: What did something indicate?

a truth to the piece


While Cohn ’s descriptions of the club ’s “ Faces ” were based on the working class in England , they were n’t entirely off the mark .

Question: What was something based on?

the working class in England

Question: What was working?

class

Question: Where was someone working?

in England

England


“ Just like the Italian - Americans , the mods shopped for that perfect shirt , ” Colleen “ Cosmo ” Murphy , an American radio broadcaster , DJ , producer and founder of Classic Album Sundays , explained to me over coffee in London one morning .

Question: Who shopped for something?

the mods

Question: What did someone shop for?

that perfect shirt

Question: Who explained to something?

Colleen “ Cosmo ” Murphy

Question: Who did someone explain to?

me

Question: What did someone explain to someone?

over coffee

over coffee in London

Question: When did someone explain to something?

one morning


“ It was about looking like they were better off than they really were , sticking their money into things like music and clothes .

Question: How was someone looking?

Question: What was stuck?

their money

Question: Where was something stuck?

into things like music and clothes

Question: What was something stuck into?

things like music and clothes


They bought records , certain types of trousers , certain types of jackets .

Question: Who bought something?

They

Question: What did someone buy?

records


“ It ’s that culture of people who have their regular job during the week and live to go out on the weekend .

Question: What ’s something?

It

Question: What does something ’s?

Question: Who lives?

culture of people

people

Question: What does someone live to do?

to go out on the weekend

Question: Who goes somewhere?

culture of people

people

Question: Where does someone go?

out

Question: When does someone go somewhere?

on the weekend


A blue - collar worker in Brooklyn is n’t going to be defined by their job .

Question: Who is going?

A blue - collar worker in Brooklyn

n’t

Question: Why is someone going?

to be defined by their job

Question: What is someone going to do?

be defined by their job

Question: Who is defined?

A blue - collar worker in Brooklyn

n’t

Question: How is someone defined?

by their job

Question: What is someone defined by?

their job


Who they really are is who they are when they go out .

Question: Who goes somewhere?

they

Question: Where does someone go?

out


A mod might be bricklayer , but they ’re a mod . ”

Question: What ’re something?

A mod

Question: Who ’re something?

they

Question: What does someone ’re?

a mod


Bill Brewster , former editor of Mixmag USA and founder of Djhistory.com , echoed this : “ It ’s a universal story that had been going on for decades even before there were DJs playing records , ” he said .

Question: Who echoed something?

Bill Brewster

Question: What did someone echo?

this

Question: What ’s something?

It

Question: What does something ’s?

a universal story

Question: What was be going?

a universal story

Question: How long has something been going somewhere?

for decades

Question: Who said something?

he


“ Working - class kids going out on a Friday and Saturday and getting off their heads to American black music .

Question: Who is going somewhere?

kids

Question: Where is someone going?

out

Question: When is someone going somewhere?

on a Friday and Saturday

Question: Who is getting up something?

kids

Question: What is someone getting up?

their heads

American black music


It was happening in the cellars of Paris during the occupation in terms of jazz records .

Question: What was happening?

It

Question: Where was something happening?

in the cellars of Paris

Question: When was something happening somewhere?

during the occupation

Question: How was something happening somewhere?

in terms of jazz records


Those archetypes , even though Cohn based them on people in London , were obviously happening in New York as well .

Question: What did someone base?

Those archetypes

them

Question: Who based something?

Cohn

Question: Who did someone base something on?

people in London

Question: What was happening?

Those archetypes

Question: Where was something happening?

in New York

in New York as well

New York


I think it was an educated guess on his part , and a correct one . ”

Question: Who thinks something?

I

Question: What does someone think?


The multi - million - selling soundtrack album featured hits from the Bee Gees and topped the US chart for 24 consecutive weeks .

Question: What is being sold?

soundtrack album

Question: What featured something?

Question: What did something feature?

hits from the Bee Gees

Question: What topped something?

Question: What did someone top?

the US chart

Question: How long did someone top something?

for 24 consecutive weeks

24 consecutive weeks


Disco as a genre and culture had already been gathering pace in New York so Saturday Night Fever was just the tipping point of something that had been going on for a while .

Question: What was gather something?

Disco

Disco as a genre and culture

Question: What was something gathering?

pace

Question: Where was something gathering?

in New York

New York

Question: What was be going?

something

Question: When was something going somewhere?

for a while