The group's involvement even survived the decision by the original director, John Avildsen, that he didn't want their music in the film.
More out of loyalty to him than any belief in the viability of the film, they obliged.
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Instead, Robert Stigwood asked them in early 1977 to contribute songs to the soundtrack of a movie that he was financing, a low-budget picture called Tribal Rites on a Saturday Night. The Bee Gees had written "Stayin' Alive" (then called "Saturday Night"), "Night Fever," "How Deep Is Your Love," "If I Can't Have You," and "More Than a Woman" for what would have been the follow-up album to Children of the World, and they might well have enjoyed platinum-record status with that proposed album.
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Saturday Night Fever, as a movie and an album, plus a brace of hit singles off of it, suddenly made disco explode into mainstream, working- and middle-class America with a new immediacy and urgency, increasing its audience ten-fold overnight. Ironically, before its release, the disco boom had seemingly run its course, primarily in Europe, and was confined mostly to black culture and the gay underground in America. Saturday Night Fever, although hardly as prodigious an artistic achievement as those precursors, was precisely that kind of musical phenomenon for the second half of the '70s. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album served this purpose for the era of psychedelic music in the 1960s.
The Bee Gees are a trio of brothers - Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb - who formed as a music group in the late 1950s.
Growing up in Brooklyn, and working in a paint store, Tony often gets into trouble with the law. The Saturday Night Fever musical is based on the 1977 movie of the same name, starring John Travolta as Tony Manero. Could you dance all night long? Get your disco moves at the ready, as Saturday Night Fever hits London in 2022.
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