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Saturday Night Fever, the Bee Gees and disco in Australia

Saturday Night Fever, the Bee Gees and disco in Australia

Update: 2024-11-24
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From the very first shot of John Travolta strutting his stuff down a busy New York street, Saturday Night Fever is an iconic film, and the music is even more iconic. Well, the five Bee Gees’ tracks that occupied side A are anyway—don’t get music writer Clinton Walker started on the ‘highway robbery’ of making fans pay for a double-album just to get those songs!

Clinton Walker brings disco fever to The Music Show and explains the Australianness of the film and its soundtrack, thanks in large part to Adelaide-born producer Robert Stigwood and the Bee Gees who we claim as our own.

Clinton Walker's book Soundtrack From Saturday Night Fever is published by Bloomsbury.

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Saturday Night Fever, the Bee Gees and disco in Australia

Saturday Night Fever, the Bee Gees and disco in Australia

Australian Broadcasting Corporation