Robin Gibb later observed that Saturday Night Fever was made on a very low budget, released very late in the year and had no expensive promotion. At the 50th Academy Awards on ApSaturday Night Fever had received only one nomination (John Travolta for Best Actor) in a year where Annie Hall and Star Wars dominated the competition. Colleague and friend Roger Ebert writing shortly after Siskel’s death in 1999, believed that Saturday Night Fever had struck Siskel mainly on an emotional level but also for its themes that had impressed him. Other influential film critics were similarly praiseworthy of the film’s subject matter.
It became Chicago film critic Gene Siskel’s favorite film-soon after, Siskel famously bought Tony Manero’s white suit at a charity auction in 1978 for $2,000. John Travolta attended the London premiere of Saturday Night Fever on Mawith Kay Edwards.įollowing its world premiere in Hollywood on December 7, 1977, Saturday Night Fever became an enormous success. Saturday Night Fever would perfectly capture a moment in time and forever define the disco age. To be added to their astonishment-as much as anyone else’s there attending that rough cut – is that the Bee Gees had no idea they had embarked on a motion picture that would soon prove to be a milestone in film history.
Although the music soundtrack at this juncture was demo cuts, the songs they wrote and performed meshed perfectly with the film’s scenes about which they had never been told very much. 5 At one early screening with John Travolta and director John Badham, among others, the Bee Gees were pleased though a little surprised when they saw for the first time scenes of the re-titled Saturday Night Fever with their music and lyrics to back it up. They offered Stigwood, their longtime manager, songs that they were already working on, namely, Stayin’ Alive, Night Fever, If I Can’t Have You (later sung by Yvonne Elliman), More Than A Woman, and How Deep is Your Love.
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It didn’t help that the Bee Gees were given neither a script nor hardly told what the movie plot was about. When the Bee Gees were asked by film producer Robert Stigwood to provide five songs for a film tentatively titled Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night based on the 1975 New York magazine fiction article about the urban disco scene, they didn’t want to compose music specifically for a film (although Barry did write the title song for Stigwood’s follow-up picture, Grease). It remains one of the top ten-selling albums of all time. A huge international pop music hit starting in late 1977, How Deep is Your Love written and performed by the Bee Gees made its way into the Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track album that went Platinum on Januand was certified 16x Multi-Platinum on November 16, 2017. The music of the Bee Gees (left to right: Robin, Barry, and Maurice Gibb) and the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever starring John Travolta breathed fire into the disco music craze and helped define the disco era in the late 1970’s. There are two official music videos performed by the Bee Gees of How Deep is Your Love. There are two official music videos for How Deep Is Your Love featuring the Bee Gees. Although the song had started on the charts in October 1977, when it reached number one it stayed in the top 10 for four months until April 1978 which, at that time, set a longevity record. on Christmas Eve 1977 and stayed in the top spot for three weeks. Three months later, after the smash-hit film Saturday Night Fever starring John Travolta was released, How Deep Is Your Love became the number one song in the U.S. 3 Recorded in the spring of 1977 in anticipation of the album and film Saturday Night Fever to be released later that year- How Deep Is Your Love was released in the U.S.
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2 In 2011 it was voted in a TV poll as the UK’s favorite. Barry Gibb, the lone surviving Bee Gee today, reportedly said that How Deep Is Your Love is his favorite Bee Gees song. 1 It sits between White Room (1968) by Cream and Unchained Melody (1965) by The Righteous Brothers. How Deep Is Your Love (1977) by the Bee Gees ranks number 375 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
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