
Stayin' Alive
The Bee Gees wrote 'Stayin' Alive' for a Saturday Night Fever script they hadn't read yet, and the drum loop underneath it exists because the actual drummer couldn't make the session.
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SONG.REVIEWSAustralian-British trio of brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb, who moved from 1960s pop-rock harmonies into the sound that would define disco. "You Should Be Dancing," from 1976's Children of the World, was the group's first version of the four-on-the-floor disco style they'd ride to Saturday Night Fever a year later.

The Bee Gees wrote 'Stayin' Alive' for a Saturday Night Fever script they hadn't read yet, and the drum loop underneath it exists because the actual drummer couldn't make the session.
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The Bee Gees' first true disco single, 50 years old this year, is also the record John Travolta dances to alone in Saturday Night Fever -- a genre pivot that outlasted the group that made it.
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