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Posts Tagged Saturday Night Fever

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February 11, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

What A Good Score! – #8: Saturday Night Fever by Various Artists

The soundtrack to the movie Saturday Night Fever is one of the greatest-selling soundtrack albums of all time! It also – as if this is a surprise, given the number of people who have bought it over the years – happens to be very good. It is one of those moment-capturing slices of pop-culture. Saturday Night […]
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February 14, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

The Bee Gees – How Can You Mend a Broken Heart: Film

The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart Director: Frank Marshall Diamond Docs / White Horse Pictures / HBO Documentary Films / HBO Max Oh, I love the Bee Gees! Wasn’t always the case. As a kid I feel like I was trained to laugh at them – via Kenny Everett and later […]
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December 3, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 8

Bee Gees, Night Fever [Single] (1978) Maybe this has always been one of my favourite Bee Gees songs? Quite likely. And among the first I would have heard and though I’ve gone back to their pre-disco pop and I like almost everything up to Saturday Night Fever – I still do have love for that […]
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February 3, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 338

Lionel Hampton, Saturday Night Jazz Fever (1978) I took a punt on Lionel Hampton back in the day; bought a double CD comp from a closing down sale for $5-10 and loved it. I didn’t know what I was getting – beyond the fact that it was jazz. Clearly jazz. Then I looked him pup, found out about […]
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February 27, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Authors I Admire: # 14 Nik Cohn

It’s hard naming favourite music writers, like being forced to pick a favourite band I guess. You don’t always want to listen to The Beatles or much as Kendrick Lamar might take your fancy you can’t just listen to only that. It’s the same with great writers – you get different things from different people. […]
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August 14, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Gate: Saturday Night Fever

Gate Saturday Night Fever MIE Announced as Gate’s disco album – obviously riffing on the title – but that only means something if you’ve already entered through the Gate into Michael Morley’s world of hypnotic swirls of noise, guitar loops that duck, dive and drone and rhythms that become melodies only after they’ve pulverised your […]
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November 25, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Walter Murphy: A Fifth of Beethoven [Reissue]

Walter Murphy A Fifth of Beethoven [Reissue] Hot Shot Records If you asked someone – now – what they knew about Walter Murphy, or if they knew him, they might tell you about his work with Seth MacFarlane – from writing/arranging for Family Guy he’s become MacFarlane’s go-to composer creating the theme tunes for his […]
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November 10, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 996

The Trammps, Disco Inferno (1976) It started with the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever – that was all I knew of The Trammps – and for the longest while all I needed to know, that super-charged version of Disco Inferno. I’m so obsessed with that song, that groove, that I once (not that long ago […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1976, Body Contact Contract, disco, Disco Inferno, LP, Saturday Night Fever, The Trammps, Vinyl ·

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February 18, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Saturday Night Fever

Quite simply: this is the greatest-selling soundtrack album of all time! It also – as if this is a surprise, given the number of people who have bought it over the years – happens to be very good. It is one of those moment-capturing slices of pop-culture. Saturday Night Fever (the film and particularly this […]
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