<P> Following a successful live album, Here at Last...Bee Gees...Live, the Bee Gees agreed with Stigwood to participate in the creation of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack . It would be the turning point of their career . The cultural impact of both the film and the soundtrack was seismic throughout the world, prolonging the disco scene's mainstream appeal . </P> <P> The band's involvement in the film did not begin until post-production . As John Travolta asserted, "The Bee Gees weren't even involved in the movie in the beginning...I was dancing to Stevie Wonder and Boz Scaggs ." Producer Robert Stigwood commissioned the Bee Gees to create the songs for the film . The brothers wrote the songs "virtually in a single weekend" at Château d'Hérouville studio in France . Barry Gibb remembered the reaction when Stigwood and music supervisor Bill Oakes arrived and listened to the demos: </P> <P> They flipped out and said these will be great . We still had no concept of the movie, except some kind of rough script that they'd brought with them...You've got to remember, we were fairly dead in the water at that point, 1975, somewhere in that zone--the Bee Gees' sound was basically tired . We needed something new . We hadn't had a hit record in about three years . So we felt, Oh Jeez, that's it . That's our life span, like most groups in the late' 60s . So, we had to find something . We didn't know what was going to happen . </P> <P> Bill Oakes, who supervised the soundtrack, asserts that Saturday Night Fever did not begin the disco craze; rather, it prolonged it: "Disco had run its course . These days, Fever is credited with kicking off the whole disco thing--it really didn't . Truth is, it breathed new life into a genre that was actually dying ." </P>

The bee gees were a musical group with three members