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Bee Gees: Saturday Night Fever
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In 1978, with Saturday Night Fever still high on the charts, the Bee Gees started Music for UNICEF, donating the royalties from a new song and recruiting other hitmakers to do the same. They ... appeared in Stigwood’s movie fiasco Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and continued to record. After Saturday Night Fever, even the platinum Spirits Having Flown (#1, 1979) with three #1 hits - “Too Much Heaven,” “Tragedy,” and “Love You Inside Out” - seemed anticlimactic. As of 1979, the Bee Gees had made five platinum albums and more than 20 hit singles.
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The Bee Gees then became the biggest pop group on the planet. 1971 brought Lonely Days, their first U.S. number one and first U.S. gold record, as well as the gold number one How Can You Mend A Broken Heart. The trio's contributions to 1977's Saturday Night Fever helped make history when that soundtrack became music's top-selling album, the biggest selling soundtrack ever.
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Three Bee Gees singles ("How Deep Is Your Love", "Stayin' Alive", and "Night Fever") reached #1 in the United States and most countries around the world, launching the most popular period of the disco era. They ... penned the song "If I Can't Have You" which became a #1 hit for Yvonne Elliman, while the Bee Gees own version was the B-Side of Stayin' Alive. Such was the popularity of Saturday Night Fever that two different versions of the song "More Than a Woman" received airplay, one by The Bee Gees, which was relegated as an album track, and another by Tavares, which was the hit. The Gibb sound was inescapable. During an eight-month period beginning in the Christmas season of 1977, the brothers wrote six songs that held the #1 position on the U.S. charts for 25 of 32 consecutive weeks-- three under their own name, two for brother Andy Gibb, and the Yvonne Elliman single.
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The Bee Gees were already established hit makers in the U.S. and the U.K. when the group became an unstoppable musical force in 1975. In four short years, Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb rose to international superstardom as they recorded a string of worldwide hits, sold 180 million records worldwide and helped define an era with the Grammy-winning Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. The Brothers Gibb capped their amazing run in 1979 with the multi-platinum BEE GEES GREATEST, a double album spotlighting the group’s meteoric run of R&B dance hits between 1975 and 1979.
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By 1979, The Bee Gees had made five platinum albums including 35 hit singles, 9 of them reaching #1 on the Billboard charts. The album "Saturday Night Fever"alone sold over 30 million copies and the hits keep coming. The Canadian production "Stayin' Alive" is a unique recreation of one of the top acts in music history. Backed by a live band, this production is an obvious hit for audiences of all ages.
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The Bee Gees are now regarded as one of the great phenomena of popular music. The most successful group to ever come from Australia, they are reputed to have sold 110 million records, over 20 million copies of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack alone. However, the eight years that the English show-biz brothers spent in Australia weren’t nearly as profitable. They were once so broke they couldn’t even afford guitar strings. What follows is the story of how a one-eyed fan working in a butcher’s storeroom in suburban Hurstville helped change their fortunes.
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