The era-defining and highest-selling soundtrack album in history receives a Super Deluxe release to commemorate its 40th anniversary. The boxset edition features the original soundtrack on 2LP, which spawned four No. 1 singles for the Bee Gees and won the GRAMMY Award for Album Of The Year. It also includes an expanded 2CD version featuring 4 new mixes by GRAMMY Award winner Serban, 40th anniversary Director’s Cut on Blu-Ray, 23 page book, 5 art prints, movie poster and turntable mat.
Soundtrack of 'Saturday Night Fever' (1977), who came to achieve 15 times platinum in USA and in those years to be the best selling film music of all time. The 'Bee Gees' were preparing a new studio album for which had about five original songs, which proved to be right for the start of the soundtrack, who played the first 4 themselves, while the fifth,' If I Can not Have You ", was recorded by Yvonne Elliman. Along with those songs added two other previously released their own songs, "Jive Talkin 'and' You Should Be Dancing '. The rest of the music of the film are outstanding songs written and adapted by musician David Shire, which makes loans of three of them.
Every so often, a piece of music comes along that defines a moment in popular culture history: Johann Strauss' operetta Die Fledermaus did this in Vienna in the 1870s; Jerome Kern's Show Boat did it for Broadway musicals of the 1920s; and the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album served this purpose for the era of psychedelic music in the 1960s…
Every so often, a piece of music comes along that defines a moment in popular culture history: Johann Strauss' operetta Die Fledermaus did this in Vienna in the 1870s; Jerome Kern's Show Boat did it for Broadway musicals of the 1920s; and the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album served this purpose for the era of psychedelic music in the 1960s. Saturday Night Fever, although hardly as prodigious an artistic achievement as those precursors, was precisely that kind of musical phenomenon for the second half of the '70s – ironically, at the time before its release, the disco boom had seemingly run its course, primarily in Europe, and was confined mostly to black culture and the gay underground in America…
On April 21, Capitol/UMe will release a new career-spanning collection of top hits by one of music's most legendary and acclaimed groups, the Bee Gees. The Bee Gees' Timeless: The All-Time Greatest Hits features 21 tracks personally selected by Bee Gees co-founder Barry Gibb and sequenced in chronological order. The CD and digital collection spans decades of Bee Gees smash hits, from their first Australian chart-topper, 1966's "Spicks and Specks" to "How Deep Is Your Love," "Night Fever," and "Stayin' Alive" from Saturday Night Fever to 1987's UK Number One single "You Win Again."