What type of music did he like?
M.T. I recently asked that question to McQueen’s third wife Barbara Minty, and what she said blew me away. She said he wore out his copy of “Saturday Night Fever” by the Bee Gees! She said whenever she heard the strains of “Staying Alive,” she’d say, “Oh honey, this just isn’t cutting it.”
For me, McQueen and disco seem like a deadly combination, but it is funny. In the ‘60s, McQueen used to venture to the Sunset Strip to listen to Johnny Rivers quite often, but I don’t know if he did that so much to hear Rivers or pick up women. Probably a little of both. In 1978, he attended a Rolling Stones concert with Barbara Minty, who said she had a nice chat with drummer Charlie Watts about kids. If you recall, the Stones wrote a song called “Star, Star” (an ode to groupies) in 1973, which included a lyric about Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw.
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