The Bee Gees’ Disco Classic ‘Stayin’ Alive’ Didn’t Start Out as a Dance Tune
“Very few people realize it’s to do with anything but dance,” Robin Gibb says about the Bee Gees tuneSamson Amore | December 15, 2020 @ 5:36 PM
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“Stayin’ Alive” is the Bee Gees’ most recognizable song, and arguably one of the most well-known dance tracks ever created.
The song was the first track off the hugely successful soundtrack to “Saturday Night Fever” and as used in the film provides the backdrop for one of the defining cinematic moments of the 1970s. It enjoyed 4 weeks at the top of the billboard charts and is widely credited for firmly cementing disco as mainstream phenomenon and the Bee Gees themselves as 1970s dance music icons.