And people pick up on that too, and they really like it 'cause they feel the love.' Brian performs the classic album tonight at the Mayo Performing Arts Center in Morristown, NJ. ' a collective autobiography of everything we all feel when we wake up in the morning and are moved by the mystery of how impossible it is, how inevitable, and how stupidly joyful just to try and reach out to another human being.' 'The result was autobiographical, but it wasn't Wilson's autobiography,' writes Liel Leibovitz about Wilson's masterpiece. The album's musical and lyrical direction marked a departure from the surf rock the Beach Boys had been known for, but Brian Wilson was adamant about the evolving direction of the band's sound, which included many orchestral instruments and unconventional sound effects using bicycle bells, Coca-Cola cans and barking dogs. The story goes that Wilson had crafted much of what would become Pet Sounds by the time the rest of the band - comprising at the time vocalist Al Jardine, vocalist Bruce Johnston, vocalist/co-writer Mike Love, guitarist/vocalist Carl Wilson, and drummer/vocalist Dennis Wilson - returned from a tour of Japan and Hawaii. The Saturday Night Fever soundtrack was also inducted into the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame in 2004.Īdditionally, to celebrate the impact of Saturday Night Fever and the Bee Gees' timeless catalog, the Recording Academy hosted the CBS TV special ' Stayin' Alive: A GRAMMY Salute To The Music Of The Bee Gees' on April 16, 2017, with artists such as Demi Lovato, Celine Dion, Keith Urban, Stevie Wonder, and John Legend covering hits from the album. The Bee Gees were recognized in 2015 with the Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award. It's also one of only three soundtracks to ever earn the same distinction alongside Whitney Houston's The Bodyguard - Original Soundtrack Album (1993) and O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Soundtrack (2001). Saturday Night Fever remains the only disco album in GRAMMY history to take home the GRAMMY for Album Of The Year. The following year, at the 21st GRAMMY Awards, the soundtrack itself netted the Bee Gees an additional four GRAMMYs, including Album Of The Year, Producer Of The Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance By A Duo, Group Or Chorus for 'Saturday Night Fever.' The indelible hit 'How Deep Is Your Love' was released as a single in 1977 prior to finding its way onto the soundtrack, and it earned the trio of brothers Best Pop Vocal Performance By A Group at the 20th GRAMMY Awards. Saturday Night Fever hit it big at the GRAMMY Awards. They performed six of the soundtrack's tracks and wrote seven, including 'If I Can't Have You,' which was covered by singer Yvonne Elliman. Inside Bee Gees' 'Saturday Night Fever' Soundtrackįor this unforgettable disco classic, we have primarily the Bee Gees (brothers Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb) to thank.

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