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{{Infobox actor
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| name = John Travolta
| image = John_Travolta.jpg
| imagesize = 200px
| caption = John Travolta in Sweden, ]
| birthname = John Joseph Travolta
| birthdate = {{birth date and age|1954|2|18}}
| location = ], <br> {{USA}}
| spouse = ] (1991-)
| homepage =
| notable role = '''Vinnie Barbarino''' in '']''<br>'''Tony Manero''' in '']'' and '']''<br>'''Danny Zuko''' in '']''<br>''']''' in '']''<br>'''Chili Palmer''' in <BR>''] and ]''<br>'''Sean Archer/Castor Troy''' in '']''
| academyawards = '''Nominated: ]''' <br>1977 '']'' <br>1994 '']''
| goldenglobeawards = ''']''' <br> 1996 '']''
}}
'''John Joseph Travolta''' (born ], ]) is an ]-nominated, ]-winning ] actor and singer. He established his career as a leading ] actor with films such as '']'' and '']''. Travolta enjoyed a career revival in the ], stemming from his role in '']''.

==Biography==
===Early life===
Travolta, youngest of six children, was born in ], to Salvatore Travolta, a second-generation ] semi-professional ] player turned tire salesman, and Helen Cecilia Burke, an ]<ref>http://www.showbizireland.com/news/july01/20-travolta01.shtml</ref> <ref>http://www.rd.com/content/openContent.do?contentId=26272&pageIndex=1</ref> actress and singer who had appeared in ''The Sunshine Sisters'', a radio vocal group, and acted and directed before becoming a high school drama teacher. She was 42 when Travolta was born. Travolta grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood<ref>http://www.beatboxbetty.com/celebetty/johntravolta/johntravolta2/johntravolta2/johntravolta2.htm</ref> and has said that his household was predominantly Irish in culture. His family was ].<ref>http://www.hollywoodauditions.com/Biographies/john_travolta.htm</ref>

===Career===

After dropping out of ] after his junior year, Travolta moved to ] to get a job as a performer. He landed roles in the touring company of '']'' and on ] in '']'' singing the ]' song "].'" Travolta also cut singles for a local record company, but the songs were quickly forgotten. But eventually, he moved to ] to further his career in show business.

Travolta's first television role was as a fall victim in '']'' in 1973, but his first major movie role as Billy Nolan, a ] bully who taunted ]'s ] in the horror film '']'' (1976). Around the same time he landed his star-making role as Vinnie Barbarino in the ] ] '']'' (1975&ndash;1979) in which his sister, ], also occasionally appeared (as Arnold Horshack's mother).

]'' (1976)]]

Around this time he also had a hit single entitled "Let Her In" peaking at number ten on the ] chart. In the next few years, he appeared in some of his most memorable screen roles: Tony Manero in '']'' (1977) and as ] in '']'' (1978). His mother and his sister Ann appeared as extras in ''Saturday Night Fever'' and his sister Ellen appeared as a waitress in ''Grease''. Travolta performed several of the songs on the ''Grease'' soundtrack album, that eventually went on to sell more than 10 million copies. In 1980, Travolta inspired a nationwide country music craze that followed on the heels of his hit film, '']'', in which he starred with ].

After '']'' came a string of flops that sidelined his acting career. Some suggest that he was ] as a disco stud or 1970s icon, which could be the reason his agent intervened on several occasions to turn down acting roles. During that time he was offered, but turned down, lead roles in what would become box office hits, including '']'', '']'', '']'' and '']''. The first two films ultimately starred ] in the lead role and went to become box office successes. This was also the case much later in his career with the movie '']'' - the role of lawyer Billy Flynn was offered to Travolta, but ultimately was played by Gere; the film went on to become a highly commercial and critical success. His only hit film during this period was alongside ] and a baby voiced by ] in '']''. However, it wasn't until he played ] in ]'s hit '']'' (1994), for which he received an ] nomination, that his career was revived. The movie shifted him back onto the ], and he was inundated with offers. Coincidentally, before Travolta took the role he visited Tarantino, who was living in the same ramshackle apartment in Los Angeles that Travolta had inhabited when he got his start. Notable roles following ''Pulp Fiction'' include a movie-buff ] in '']'' (1995), an FBI agent in '']'' (1997), a desperate attorney in '']'' (1998) and a military detective in '']'' (]).

]
Travolta also starred in '']'' (2000) based on a work of ] by ], in which he played the leader of a group of aliens that enslaves humanity on a bleak future Earth. The film received almost universally negative reviews and did very poorly at the box office.<ref></ref> Travolta, who converted to ] in 1975 and endorses Hubbard's teachings, had hoped that the film would be well received and be the first in a series of Hubbard film adaptations. In fact, the film won a ] for Worst Film of the Year at the ].

Travola is currently starring as a workaholic with a bad hairpiece turned biker in '']'' 2007.

Travolta will play Edna Turnblad in the 2007 adaptation of '']''.

===Personal life===
Travolta married actress ] in 1991. They have a son named Jett, and a daughter named Ella Bleu. On ], ], ] of '']'' made a public plea to Travolta and Preston to have their son treated for ], alleging five reliable sources&mdash;including representatives from ] and ''The Autism Perspective''&mdash;who say that Jett suffers from ], and not from ] as stated by the parents.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.hollywoodinterrupted.com/archives/a_plea_from_hollywood_john_travolta_open_your_heart.phtml
|title = A Plea From Hollywood: John Travolta - Open Your Heart!
|publisher = Hollywood, Interrupted
|author =
|date = 10 April 2006
|accessdate = 2007-01-22
}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
|url = http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/408026p-345417c.html
|title = Travolta son's diagnosis: Science vs. Scientology?
|publisher = New York Daily News
|author = Jo Piazza, Chris Rovzar
|date=April 2006
|accessdate = 2007-01-22
}}
</ref><ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/kawasaki/index.htm
|title = Infectious Disease Information - Kawasaki Syndrome
|publisher = Centers for Disease Control
|author =
|date = January 2006
|accessdate = 2007-01-22
}}
</ref> His brother Joey Travolta recently produced a documentary about autism.
] at a ] dinner on ] ].]]
Travolta is a FAA licensed pilot and owns five airplanes, including an ex-Australian airliner, the ] ]. The plane bears the name ''Jett Clipper Ella'' in honour of his son Jett and his daughter Ella. ] was a large operator of the ] and used Clipper in their names. The 707 aircraft bears the marks of Qantas, as Travolta acts as an official goodwill ambassador for the airline wherever he flies. His US$4.9 million estate in the ] subdivision in ] is situated on ] with its own runway and taxiway right to the door.<ref>
{{cite web
|url = http://www.rapp.org/archives/2003/11/jumbolair/
|title = Jumbolair
|publisher = The House of Rapp
|author =
|date = 17 November 2003
|accessdate = 2007-01-22
}}</ref>

In 1992, he wrote and illustrated a short children's book entitled ''Propeller One-Way Night Coach'' about the fictional journey of an 8-year-old boy named Jeff across the USA in the 1950s.

Questions have also been raised regarding what kind of agreements were made between Travolta and then-] ], regarding how Travolta would portray Jack Stanton, a character based on Clinton, in the movie '']'' and whether Clinton would pressure the ] government to remove its ban on Scientology. Travolta was quoted about the issue in ] issue of '']'' magazine:
{{cquote|The next day, I met with Clinton. He told me: "Your program sounds great. More than that, I'd really love to help you with your issue over in Germany with Scientology." I was waiting for the seduction that I had heard so much about. I thought, "Well, how could he ever seduce me?" And after we talked, I thought, "Bingo!" He did it. Scientology is the one issue that really matters to me. }}

In another interview, Travolta said that his portrayal of Stanton was much more kind than that in the book ''Primary Colors''.<ref>
{{cite web
|url = http://www.factnet.org/Scientology/clinton_scientology.html
|title = Clinton helped Church of Scientology...
|publisher = FACT.net
|author =
|date=March 1998
|accessdate = 2007-01-22
}}
</ref> The next year, in November 1998, Clinton sent ] ] to urge ] ] to stop being intolerant toward Scientologists.<ref>
{{cite web
|url = http://www.pewid.ch/SCI/travolta.html
|title = John Travolta: Clinton unterstützte Scientology in Deutschland
|publisher = Pewid.ch
|language = English
|date = 1998
|accessdate = 2007-01-22
}}</ref>

Travolta was previously involved with actress ], who died of ] (reportedly in Travolta's arms) in 1977.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0405076/bio|title=biography of Diana Hyland|publisher=]|accessdate = 2007-03-28}}</ref>

==Filmography==
{| class="wikitable"
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! Year !! Title !! Role !! Notes
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| ] || '']'' || Danny ||
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|rowspan="2"| ] || '']'' || Tod Lubitch ||
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| '']'' || Billy Nolan ||
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| ] || '']'' || Tony Manero ||
|-
|rowspan="2"| ] || '']'' || Strip Harrison ||
|-
| '']'' || Danny Zuko ||
|-
| ] || '']'' || Buford 'Bud' Uan Davis ||
|-
| ] || '']'' || Jack Terry ||
|-
|rowspan="2"| ] || '']'' || Tony Manero ||
|-
| '']'' || Zack ||
|-
| ] || '']'' || Adam Lawrence ||
|-
|rowspan="2"| ] || '']'' || James Ubriacco ||
|-
| '']'' || Travis ||
|-
| ] || '']'' || James Ubriacco ||
|-
|rowspan="2"| ] || '']'' || Jack Cabe ||
|-
| '']'' || Bobby ||
|-
| ] || '']'' || Himself || (cameo)
|-
| ] || '']'' || James Ubriacco ||
|-
| ] || '']'' || ] ||
|-
|rowspan="2"| ] || '']'' || Chili Palmer ||
|-
| '']'' || Louis Pinnock ||
|-
|rowspan="4"| ] || '']'' || Michael ||
|-
| '']'' || George Malley ||
|-
| '']'' || Himself || (short subject)
|-
| '']'' || Maj. Vic 'Deak' Deakins ||
|-
|rowspan="4"| ] || '']'' || Himself || (documentary)
|-
| '']'' || Sam Baily ||
|-
| '']'' || Sean Archer ||
|-
| '']'' || Joey ||
|-
|rowspan="4"| ] || '']'' || Jan Schlichtmann ||
|-
| '']'' || Brigadier General Quintard ||
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| '']'' || Himself || (documentary)
|-
| '']'' || Governor Jack Stanton ||
|-
| ] || '']'' || Warr. Off. Paul Brenner/Sgt. Frank White ||
|-
|rowspan="3"| ] || '']'' || Himself || (documentary)
|-
| '']'' || Russ Richards ||
|-
| '']'' || Terl ||
|-
|rowspan="2"| ] || '']'' || Frank Morrison ||
|-
| '']'' || Gabriel Shear ||
|-
| ] || '']'' || "Austinpussy" Johann van der Smut ||
|-
| ] || '']'' || Hardy ||
|-
|rowspan="3"| ] || '']'' || Captain Mike Kennedy ||
|-
| '']'' || Bobby Long ||
|-
| '']'' || Howard Saint ||
|-
|rowspan="2"| ] || '']'' || Himself || (narrator; documentary)
|-
| '']'' || Chili Palmer ||
|-
|rowspan="2"| ] || '']'' || Dave || (voice only; currently filming)
|-
| '']'' || Elmer C. Robinson ||
|-
|rowspan="3"| ] || '']'' || Edna Turnblad || (currently filming)
|-
| '']'' || Woody ||
|-
| '']'' || J.R. Ewing || (pre-production)
|-
| ] || '']'' || American Dog the Hound Dog || (voice only; pre-production)
|}

==Salary==
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*'']'' (2007) US$12 million including ''ca''. US$3 million ]
*''] (2004) US $20 million
*'']'' (1998) US$18 million
*'']'' (1997) US$17 million
*'']'' (1997) US$15 million

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*'']'' (1996) US$10 million
*'']'' (1996) US$8 million
*'']'' (1996) US$7 million
*'']'' (1995) US$3.5 million
*'']'' (1994) US$2 million

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==Television work==
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*'']'' (1975)
*'']'' (cast member from 1975 - 1978) &nbsp;
*'']'' (1976)

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*'']'' (1987)
*'']'' (1991) (also writer)
*'']'' (2004) (Uncredited)

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==Music career==

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===Discography===
*'']'' (Original Cast Album) (1974)
*''John Travolta'' (1976)
*''Can't Let You Go'' (1977)
*''Travolta Fever'' (1978)
*'']'' (movie soundtrack) (1978)
*''The Road to Freedom'' (Scientology album) (1986)
*''Let Her In: The Best of John Travolta'' (1996)
*''The Collection'' (2003)

{{Col-2-of-2}}

===Singles===
* "You Set My Dreams To Music" (1969)
* "Goodnight Mr. Moon" (1969)
* "Rainbows" (1969)
* "Settle Down" (1970)
* "Moonlight Lady" (1971)
* "Right Time Of The Night" (1972)
* "Big Trouble" (1972)
* "What Would They Say" (1973)
* "Back Doors Crying" (1973)
* "Dream Drummin'" (1974)
* "Easy Evil" (1975)
* "Can't Let You Go" (1975)
* "Let Her In" (1976)
* "Slow Dancin'" (1976)
* "It Had To Be You" (1976)
* "I Don't Know What I Like About You Baby" (1976)
* "Baby, I Could Be So Good At Lovin' You" (1977)
* "Razzamatazz" (1977)
* "Sandy" (1978)
* "Greased Lightnin'" (1978)
* "Never Gonna Fall In Love Again" (1980)
* "Hooker Madness" (1983)

{{Col-end}}

==Footnotes==
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== Literature ==
* Brigitte Tast (ed.) ''John Travolta'' (Hildesheim/Germany 1978) ISBN 3-88842-103-9.

==External links==
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John Travolta
John Travolta in Sweden, 1983
BornJohn Joseph Travolta
SpouseKelly Preston (1991-)
Websitewww.travolta.com

John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning American actor and singer. He established his career as a leading Hollywood actor with films such as Saturday Night Fever and Grease. Travolta enjoyed a career revival in the 1990s, stemming from his role in Pulp Fiction.

Biography

Early life

Travolta, youngest of six children, was born in Englewood, New Jersey, to Salvatore Travolta, a second-generation Italian American semi-professional football player turned tire salesman, and Helen Cecilia Burke, an Irish American actress and singer who had appeared in The Sunshine Sisters, a radio vocal group, and acted and directed before becoming a high school drama teacher. She was 42 when Travolta was born. Travolta grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood and has said that his household was predominantly Irish in culture. His family was Catholic.

Career

After dropping out of Dwight Morrow High School after his junior year, Travolta moved to New York City to get a job as a performer. He landed roles in the touring company of Grease (musical) and on Broadway in Over Here! singing the Sherman Brothers' song "Dream Drummin'.'" Travolta also cut singles for a local record company, but the songs were quickly forgotten. But eventually, he moved to Los Angeles to further his career in show business.

Travolta's first television role was as a fall victim in Emergency! in 1973, but his first major movie role as Billy Nolan, a sadistic bully who taunted Sissy Spacek's Carrie White in the horror film Carrie (1976). Around the same time he landed his star-making role as Vinnie Barbarino in the TV sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter (1975–1979) in which his sister, Ellen, also occasionally appeared (as Arnold Horshack's mother).

File:John Travolta in The Boy in the Plastic Bubble 4.jpg
Travolta in one of his earliest roles, in The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976)

Around this time he also had a hit single entitled "Let Her In" peaking at number ten on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In the next few years, he appeared in some of his most memorable screen roles: Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever (1977) and as Danny Zuko in Grease (1978). His mother and his sister Ann appeared as extras in Saturday Night Fever and his sister Ellen appeared as a waitress in Grease. Travolta performed several of the songs on the Grease soundtrack album, that eventually went on to sell more than 10 million copies. In 1980, Travolta inspired a nationwide country music craze that followed on the heels of his hit film, Urban Cowboy, in which he starred with Debra Winger.

After Urban Cowboy came a string of flops that sidelined his acting career. Some suggest that he was typecast as a disco stud or 1970s icon, which could be the reason his agent intervened on several occasions to turn down acting roles. During that time he was offered, but turned down, lead roles in what would become box office hits, including American Gigolo, An Officer and A Gentleman, Splash and Fatal Attraction. The first two films ultimately starred Richard Gere in the lead role and went to become box office successes. This was also the case much later in his career with the movie Chicago - the role of lawyer Billy Flynn was offered to Travolta, but ultimately was played by Gere; the film went on to become a highly commercial and critical success. His only hit film during this period was alongside Kirstie Alley and a baby voiced by Bruce Willis in Look Who's Talking. However, it wasn't until he played Vincent Vega in Quentin Tarantino's hit Pulp Fiction (1994), for which he received an Academy Award nomination, that his career was revived. The movie shifted him back onto the A-list, and he was inundated with offers. Coincidentally, before Travolta took the role he visited Tarantino, who was living in the same ramshackle apartment in Los Angeles that Travolta had inhabited when he got his start. Notable roles following Pulp Fiction include a movie-buff loan shark in Get Shorty (1995), an FBI agent in Face/Off (1997), a desperate attorney in A Civil Action (1998) and a military detective in The General's Daughter (1999).

File:Travolta book signing.jpg
Travolta signing copies of Battlefield Earth, 2000

Travolta also starred in Battlefield Earth (2000) based on a work of science fiction by L. Ron Hubbard, in which he played the leader of a group of aliens that enslaves humanity on a bleak future Earth. The film received almost universally negative reviews and did very poorly at the box office. Travolta, who converted to Scientology in 1975 and endorses Hubbard's teachings, had hoped that the film would be well received and be the first in a series of Hubbard film adaptations. In fact, the film won a Razzie Award for Worst Film of the Year at the 2000 awards.

Travola is currently starring as a workaholic with a bad hairpiece turned biker in Wild Hogs 2007.

Travolta will play Edna Turnblad in the 2007 adaptation of Hairspray.

Personal life

Travolta married actress Kelly Preston in 1991. They have a son named Jett, and a daughter named Ella Bleu. On April 10, 2006, Mark Ebner of Hollywood, Interrupted made a public plea to Travolta and Preston to have their son treated for autism, alleging five reliable sources—including representatives from Cure Autism Now and The Autism Perspective—who say that Jett suffers from autism, and not from Kawasaki syndrome as stated by the parents. His brother Joey Travolta recently produced a documentary about autism.

Travolta dancing with Diana, Princess of Wales at a White House dinner on 9 November 1985.

Travolta is a FAA licensed pilot and owns five airplanes, including an ex-Australian airliner, the Qantas 707-138. The plane bears the name Jett Clipper Ella in honour of his son Jett and his daughter Ella. Pan Am was a large operator of the 707 and used Clipper in their names. The 707 aircraft bears the marks of Qantas, as Travolta acts as an official goodwill ambassador for the airline wherever he flies. His US$4.9 million estate in the Jumbolair subdivision in Ocala, Florida is situated on Greystone Airport with its own runway and taxiway right to the door.

In 1992, he wrote and illustrated a short children's book entitled Propeller One-Way Night Coach about the fictional journey of an 8-year-old boy named Jeff across the USA in the 1950s.

Questions have also been raised regarding what kind of agreements were made between Travolta and then-President Bill Clinton, regarding how Travolta would portray Jack Stanton, a character based on Clinton, in the movie Primary Colors and whether Clinton would pressure the German government to remove its ban on Scientology. Travolta was quoted about the issue in May 1998 issue of George magazine:

The next day, I met with Clinton. He told me: "Your program sounds great. More than that, I'd really love to help you with your issue over in Germany with Scientology." I was waiting for the seduction that I had heard so much about. I thought, "Well, how could he ever seduce me?" And after we talked, I thought, "Bingo!" He did it. Scientology is the one issue that really matters to me.

In another interview, Travolta said that his portrayal of Stanton was much more kind than that in the book Primary Colors. The next year, in November 1998, Clinton sent Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to urge German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel to stop being intolerant toward Scientologists.

Travolta was previously involved with actress Diana Hyland, who died of breast cancer (reportedly in Travolta's arms) in 1977.

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1975 The Devil's Rain Danny
1976 The Boy in the Plastic Bubble Tod Lubitch
Carrie Billy Nolan
1977 Saturday Night Fever Tony Manero
1978 Moment by Moment Strip Harrison
Grease Danny Zuko
1980 Urban Cowboy Buford 'Bud' Uan Davis
1981 Blow Out Jack Terry
1983 Staying Alive Tony Manero
Two of a Kind Zack
1985 Perfect Adam Lawrence
1989 Look Who's Talking James Ubriacco
The Experts Travis
1990 Look Who's Talking Too James Ubriacco
1991 Shout Jack Cabe
Eyes of an Angel Bobby
1992 Boris and Natasha Himself (cameo)
1993 Look Who's Talking Now James Ubriacco
1994 Pulp Fiction Vincent Vega
1995 Get Shorty Chili Palmer
White Man's Burden Louis Pinnock
1996 Michael Michael
Phenomenon George Malley
Orientation: A Scientology Information Film Himself (short subject)
Broken Arrow Maj. Vic 'Deak' Deakins
1997 Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's Himself (documentary)
Mad City Sam Baily
Face/Off Sean Archer
She's So Lovely Joey
1998 A Civil Action Jan Schlichtmann
The Thin Red Line Brigadier General Quintard
Junket Whore Himself (documentary)
Primary Colors Governor Jack Stanton
1999 The General's Daughter Warr. Off. Paul Brenner/Sgt. Frank White
2000 Welcome to Hollywood Himself (documentary)
Lucky Numbers Russ Richards
Battlefield Earth Terl
2001 Domestic Disturbance Frank Morrison
Swordfish Gabriel Shear
2002 Austin Powers in Goldmember "Austinpussy" Johann van der Smut
2003 Basic Hardy
2004 Ladder 49 Captain Mike Kennedy
A Love Song for Bobby Long Bobby Long
The Punisher Howard Saint
2005 Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D Himself (narrator; documentary)
Be Cool Chili Palmer
2006 2004: A Light Knight's Odyssey Dave (voice only; currently filming)
Lonely Hearts Elmer C. Robinson
2007 Hairspray Edna Turnblad (currently filming)
Wild Hogs Woody
Dallas J.R. Ewing (pre-production)
2008 American Dog American Dog the Hound Dog (voice only; pre-production)

Salary

Television work

Music career

Discography

  • Over Here! (Original Cast Album) (1974)
  • John Travolta (1976)
  • Can't Let You Go (1977)
  • Travolta Fever (1978)
  • Grease (movie soundtrack) (1978)
  • The Road to Freedom (Scientology album) (1986)
  • Let Her In: The Best of John Travolta (1996)
  • The Collection (2003)

Singles

  • "You Set My Dreams To Music" (1969)
  • "Goodnight Mr. Moon" (1969)
  • "Rainbows" (1969)
  • "Settle Down" (1970)
  • "Moonlight Lady" (1971)
  • "Right Time Of The Night" (1972)
  • "Big Trouble" (1972)
  • "What Would They Say" (1973)
  • "Back Doors Crying" (1973)
  • "Dream Drummin'" (1974)
  • "Easy Evil" (1975)
  • "Can't Let You Go" (1975)
  • "Let Her In" (1976)
  • "Slow Dancin'" (1976)
  • "It Had To Be You" (1976)
  • "I Don't Know What I Like About You Baby" (1976)
  • "Baby, I Could Be So Good At Lovin' You" (1977)
  • "Razzamatazz" (1977)
  • "Sandy" (1978)
  • "Greased Lightnin'" (1978)
  • "Never Gonna Fall In Love Again" (1980)
  • "Hooker Madness" (1983)

Footnotes

  1. http://www.showbizireland.com/news/july01/20-travolta01.shtml
  2. http://www.rd.com/content/openContent.do?contentId=26272&pageIndex=1
  3. http://www.beatboxbetty.com/celebetty/johntravolta/johntravolta2/johntravolta2/johntravolta2.htm
  4. http://www.hollywoodauditions.com/Biographies/john_travolta.htm
  5. rotten tomatoes about "Battlefield Earth"
  6. "A Plea From Hollywood: John Travolta - Open Your Heart!". Hollywood, Interrupted. 10 April 2006. Retrieved 2007-01-22.
  7. Jo Piazza, Chris Rovzar (April 2006). "Travolta son's diagnosis: Science vs. Scientology?". New York Daily News. Retrieved 2007-01-22.
  8. "Infectious Disease Information - Kawasaki Syndrome". Centers for Disease Control. January 2006. Retrieved 2007-01-22.
  9. "Jumbolair". The House of Rapp. 17 November 2003. Retrieved 2007-01-22.
  10. "Clinton helped Church of Scientology..." FACT.net. March 1998. Retrieved 2007-01-22.
  11. "John Travolta: Clinton unterstützte Scientology in Deutschland". Pewid.ch. 1998. Retrieved 2007-01-22.
  12. "biography of Diana Hyland". IMDB. Retrieved 2007-03-28.

Literature

  • Brigitte Tast (ed.) John Travolta (Hildesheim/Germany 1978) ISBN 3-88842-103-9.

External links

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