{"product_id":"soundtrack-from-saturday-night-fever-9798765109687","title":"Soundtrack from Saturday Night Fever","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSaturday Night Fever\u003c\/i\u003e is simultaneously one of the biggest-selling albums of all time and one of the most reviled. How can a record create such a \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003epolarizing\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e reaction?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAustralian writer Clinton Walker attempts to answer that question and finds that, among other things, a certain seemingly unlikely Australianness is part of the reason. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFever\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ecan\u003c\/i\u003e be made by a committee ... that sometimes, five songs are enough to change the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eClinton Walker\u003c\/b\u003e is a Sydney-based Australian writer who since the early 1980s has published 11 books including \u003ci\u003eDeadly Woman Blues \u003c\/i\u003e(2018), \u003ci\u003eSuburban Songbook \u003c\/i\u003e(2021), and \u003ci\u003eHighway to Hell \u003c\/i\u003e(2023).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50919497793810,"sku":"9798765109687","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ac8c7526-0ccb-4028-8ed1-875e3fea5b1c.jpg?v=1738896651","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/soundtrack-from-saturday-night-fever-9798765109687","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}