I’m going to take a short break from the former stars who played for the Royals, which will return later in December, along with an interview with famed Royal tormentor, Chris Chambliss, and get back to the year-by-year countdown of early Royal teams. This piece examines the 1978 Royals.
In 1978, disco music was exploding across the country. Discotheques were springing up like mushrooms. The movie Saturday Night Fever, starring John Travolta, ignited the disco craze. It seems like Travolta was always at the forefront of these cultural changes in the 70s - Saturday Night Fever in 1977, Grease in 1978, followed by the country & western phase Urban Cowboy in 1980.