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1. #THE BEE GEES SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER HOW TO#
2. #THE BEE GEES SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER MOVIE#
3. #THE BEE GEES SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER FULL#
4. #THE BEE GEES SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER FREE#

In short, if you're not hip to the Bee Gees' pre- Fever output, you missed a huge chunk of their career.

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Musically, the Bee Gees were full of life, performing passionately, not pitiably. It's as far from disco frivolity as you can get, but neither are these albums overly glum. Rhino's next batch of releases, including Cucumber Castle and Odessa, will take that moving moroseness further with songs such as Bury Me Down By the River and I Lay Down and Die. The Gibbs hit Top 40 gold with melancholy music such as New York Mining Disaster 1941 and I've Gotta Get a Message to You, a song about a condemned man. In the youth-driven '60s, the Bee Gees were as death-obsessed as the Doors. From its rousing title track to power ballads such as Let There Be Love, it confirmed the Gibbs as master songsmiths with knacks for incredible melodies and moody lyrics.

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Press shift question mark to access a list of keyboard shortcuts. Listen to Saturday Night Fever (The Original Movie Soundtrack) Deluxe Edition by Bee Gees on Apple Music.

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Read Alexis Petridis on how to write the perfect album review. There are over three million new album pages for you to explore – so if, for example, disco's your thing, you might want to add your own reviews here, here and here. Or you could simply star rate it, or add it to one of your album lists. You can write your own review of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack on our brand new album pages: once you're signed into the Guardian website, visit the album's own dedicated page. The idea that anyone should be ashamed of writing a song as brilliant as that may be the only truly laughable thing about Saturday Night Fever. You can hear it on Yvonne Elliman's version of If I Can't Have You – the gloomy minor chords that open and the lyrics that start out contemplating suicide and get progressively less optimistic from thereonin – and, perhaps most brilliantly, on Stayin' Alive, which, in the film, undercuts the iconic image of John Travolta's macho strut through Brooklyn with a set of lyrics that can't decide whether the song's protagonist is worth celebrating, or just a subject for pity. More importantly, opportunistic bandwagon-jumpers or not, the Bee Gees had an innate understanding of disco's complex emotional dynamic, the undertow of melancholy lurking beneath the dancefloor euphoria: their songwriting had always tended to the lachrymose. Beyond the Bee Gees tracks at its core, Saturday Night Fever did nothing more outrageous than hold a mirror up to disco at its zenith. There's a novelty track on there – Walter Murphy's A Fifth of Beethoven – but it had already been a huge hit a year before the album came out. On the most basic level thing, if it featured veteran Broadway composer David Shire, it also contained plenty of black artists: Tavares, the Trammps, Kool and the Gang, Philadelphia International house band MFSB. The argument that the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack somehow watered down disco from its black roots for mass acceptance carries no weight. The problem may have been that Saturday Night Fever made disco, reviled by 70s rock fans as much for its gay roots as its sound, unstoppable because the songs they contributed to it were utterly undeniable: perfectly formed, tightly constructed, melodically rich. The Bee Gees were hardly the first band in history to change their musical style to fit with changing times, nor the first to wear faintly daft clothes while doing so. It's hard to see how an album as good as this became so freighted with negative associations.