As great of a film as Saturday Night Fever is, with a smart script, strong direction, and a killer performance by John Travolta, it is the music by the Bee Gees that truly makes the film a classic. Their songs defined the film and the disco era, just as it defined them. The mark they left on the film is also in the title, which they helped come up with.
Their involvement with the film began when Robert Stigwood, who was their manager and was producing the film, asked them to do the movie. “We weren’t looking at ‘Fever’ as a career vehicle. We just got caught up in the Robert Stigwood syndrome: Anyone he managed he also wanted involved in his film projects, as opposed to keeping them separate, and I think we got blinded by that. He asked for three songs, we gave him three songs off what would have been our next studio album,” Maurice Gibb said.
