What type of music is stayin alive

In fact, if you feel like you've heard it somewhere else, before you may be right. Before "Stayin' Alive" was recorded, the mother of the band's go-to drummer, Dennis Byron, died, so Byron was out.

Unable to find a replacement, the Bee Gees decided to use a track that Byron had already laid down for "Night Fever. The song itself doesn't talk about a setting, but since it set the scene for Saturday Night Fever , a film about Brooklyn's disco scene, we'll take a look at that. Manero holds a dead-end job in a hardware store; he and his three best friends have no prospects and little ambition. But Manero is a slick dancer who spends all his money on nightlife polyester, and, every weekend, he finds a few hours of meaning and triumph at the disco.

Instead, their values harkened back to the s and the "golden age of Saturday nights. They were forced to take any job they could find, work hard, and enjoy what little pleasure they could on Saturday night. The central figure in Cohn's article was Vincent, who was an Italian-American who worked in a hardware store, just like Tony Manero in the film that came later. Barry added: "People crying out for help.

Desperate songs. Those are the ones that become giants. The minute you capture that on record, it's gold. And it really is a victory just to survive. But when you climb back on top and win bigger than ever before, well that's something everybody reacts to everybody.

The track was finished at Criteria Studios in Miami, Florida. At the time, the film was only just being developed and didn't have a title. Stigwood only knew that it had something to do with discomania. The Bee Gees preferred to record the majority of the soundtrack in France for tax reasons, like many artists at the time.

RSO Records wanted the song to share the title of the film at the time - 'Saturday Night' - but the Bee Gees refused to change the title, as there had been too many songs with 'Saturday' in the title. Plus, the album already had a song called 'Night Fever'. Instead, Stigwood expanded the name of the film to include the title of 'Night Fever'. Robin said: "The subject matter of 'Stayin' Alive' is actually quite a serious one; It's about survival in the streets of New York, and the lyrics actually say that".

Barry Gibb added: "People crying out for help. Desperate songs. Those are the ones that become giants. The minute you capture that on record, it's gold. And it really is a victory just to survive.