Pre-order. Available 19 Sep 2024 book Soundtrack from Saturday Night Fever

 Saturday Night Fever is simultaneously one of the biggest-selling albums of all time and one of the most reviled. How can a record create such a polarizing reaction?

Australian writer Clinton Walker attempts to answer that question and finds that, among other things, a certain seemingly unlikely Australianness is part of the reason.

Fever was a supernova for disco, for the Bee Gees, for the domineering Robert Stigwood, producer of the film and its true auteur, and for the entire record business. This book traces all the interdependent convolutions that fed into the film and its music – not least the Australian roots that Stigwood and Gibb brothers shared, which gave them an Otherness and almost gormless, shape-shifting self-determination – and it finds that sometimes great art can be made by a committee ... that sometimes, five songs are enough to change the World

 

Table of Contents

Introduction: Brisbane, Me and the Bee Gees - and Robert Stigwood
1. Disco Opera
2. The Gumnut Mafia, Rocker Operas & the New Film Musical
3. Miami Nice
4. Hollywood Now
5. Supernova
6. Death to Disco, Death to Record Business, Kill the Bee Gees
Endnotes
Selected Bibliography

 Index

 

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