The film studio then decided that both versions of “More Than a Woman” would appear on the soundtrack album so, in September 1977, the Bee Gees hastily put the finishing touches on their song at Cherokee Studios, Los Angeles, before mixing it. “More Than a Woman” had also been given to an R&B/funk group called Tavares, so the Bee Gees version was left unfinished. The Bee Gees honed their version of “Night Fever” at Criterion Studios in Miami, in April, by which time it had been decided to give “If I Can’t Have You” to Yvonne Elliman. “They flipped out and said these will be great, even though we still had no real concept of the movie,” said Barry Gibb.
I thought, ‘Well, how bad can it be?’ When I got there, I was appalled, it looked like a garage.” However, when he and Stigwood heard the rough demos, with the Gibb brothers recorded together using just one mic, they were delighted. “Elton John had done his album Honky Château there. When Oaks arrived in France, he was surprised at the state of the recording studio. Barry Gibb and Galuten worked painstakingly on the drum part of “More Than a Woman,” eventually using the same loop on the song that they’d devised for “Night Fever.” The Bee Gees started recording in February 1977 at Chateau D’Heuroville, with Albhy Galuten acting as co-producer. “More Than a Woman,” which was co-written by all three brothers, was one of the film’s romantic highlights, providing a moving musical background to a dance between Travolta and his love interest, as the band’s soaring emotional lyrics – “Here in your arms I found my paradise/My only chance for happiness/And if I lose you now I think I would die” – play in the background.Īfter the initial discussions, Stigwood and Oakes flew to France to listen to demo versions of the five songs. I can’t think of any other composers you could have asked that of and had them come back with that, having not read the script,” Bill Oakes, the producer who won a Grammy for the soundtrack to the film, said in the 2020 documentary The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart.
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Thinking about the rough brief from Stigwood to come up with songs “about this guy who works in a paint store and who goes out on Saturday night,” the group used a free weekend to write five extraordinary new songs: “Night Fever,” “Stayin’ Alive,” “More Than a Woman,” “How Deep Is Your love,” and “If I Can’t Have You.” “These songs were gold dust. They never got round to reading the early screenplay, however, because they immediately headed for the Chateau D’Heuroville studio, in France, to mix a live album called Here at Last… Bee Gees… Live, which they’d recorded in Los Angeles just before Christmas. When Stigwood ran into problems using Wonder’s music, he rang the Bee Gees, then living on the Isle of Man for tax reasons, and asked them to come up with songs for the movie, sending them a rough film script.
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