Soundtrack from Saturday Night Fever - Hardcover

by Clinton Walker (Author)

Saturday Night Fever is simultaneously one of the biggest-selling albums of all time and one of the most reviled. How can a record create such apolarizing reaction?

Australian writer Clinton Walker attempts to answer that question and finds that, among other things, a certain seemingly unlikely Australianness is part of the reason.

Fever was a supernova for disco, for the Bee Gees, for the domineering Robert Stigwood, producer of the film and its true auteur, and for the entire record business. This book traces all the interdependent convolutions that fed into the film and its music - not least the Australian roots that Stigwood and Gibb brothers shared, which gave them an Otherness and almost gormless, shape-shifting self-determination - and it finds that sometimes great art can be made by a committee ... that sometimes, five songs are enough to change the world.

Author Biography

Clinton Walker is a Sydney-based Australian writer who since the early 1980s has published 11 books including Deadly Woman Blues (2018), Suburban Songbook (2021), and Highway to Hell (2023).