Clinton Walker

Soundtrack from Saturday Night Fever (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 a polarizing 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798765109670
• Artikelnr.: 72267850

Autorenporträt

Clinton Walker is a Sydney-based Australian writer who since the early 1980s has published eleven books including Suburban Songbook (2021), Buried Country (2000), Stranded (1996), and Highway to Hell (2023).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Brisbane
Me and the Bee Gees - and Robert Stigwood 1. Disco Opera 2. The Gumnut Mafia
Rocker Operas & the New Film Musical 3. Miami Nice 4. Hollywood Now 5. Supernova 6. Death to Disco
Death to Record Business
Kill the Bee Gees Endnotes Selected Bibliography Index