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The Man Who Made John Travolta: Remembering Robert Stigwood

Discomania

He produced Saturday Night Fever and Grease. He partied at Studio 54. Robert Stigwood’s outsized life perfectly matched the days—and nights—of disco.

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Robert Stigwood, the Australian manager/producer, who unleashed John Travolta and, arguably, ‘Discomania’ on the world, died on January 4 at 81.

Memory Lane time. I met Stigwood in London at the beginning of the 1970s, when he and Michael White, a British hyperactive theater producer, were bringing Oh, Calcutta! to London...

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