They were forced to take any job they could find, work hard, and enjoy what little pleasure they could on Saturday night. The central figure in Cohn's article was Vincent, who was an Italian-American who worked in a hardware store, just like Tony Manero in the film that came later. Vincent was "the best dancer in Bay Ridge—the ultimate face. At eighteen and a half, he would soon be too old for the scene.
Then everything would be over," Cohn wrote. The article was compelling and the film it inspired was generally well received. Alas, Cohn later admitted that much of the piece was fabricated. This "Special Disco Version" as it was called, featured all the same parts as the basic album version mix, but had a mysterious "horn rhythm section" part interjected twice in this version, but turned out to be broadcast on very few U.
As for the message of the song, Robin Gibb was quoted as saying, "Stayin' Alive" is about survival in the big city—any big city—but basically New York. The music video for the song is of a completely different concept to Saturday Night Fever. It depicts the group singing the song on a movie set next to the one where they were filming " Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band " at the time. It was a set featuring buildings, a train station, and other features. The song was prominently featured in the disaster Parody spoof Airplane!
This parody might also have given kkkkk rise to the misconception that "Stayin' Alive" is the song played during John Travolta's famous dancing scene in Saturday Night Fever. Volkswagen used a parody of the song in a lates commercial entitled "Stay to the Right. The Simpsons have made numerous references to the song, using it in scenes as the aforementioned "Table Five" parody Homer sang, during a scene in the episode "Two Bad Neighbors", and in a "Treehouse of Horror" scene.
In [[Bart's Girlfriend, the opening is featured. Barry added: "People crying out for help. Desperate songs. Those are the ones that become giants. The minute you capture that on record, it's gold. And it really is a victory just to survive. Maurice further explained: "We'd also written a song called 'Saturday Night'. But there were so many songs called 'Saturday Night' even one by the Bay City Rollers, so when we rewrote it for the movie, we called it 'Stayin' Alive'.
The track was recorded at Criteria Studios, with Maurice Gibb playing a bass line similar to the guitar riff, Barry Gibb and Alan Kendall on guitar riffs, and Blue Weaver on synthesizers. Due to the death of backing drummer Dennis Bryon's mother in the middle of the sessions, the group looked for a replacement.
However, as there was a shortage of qualified drummers in the area, they tried out a drum machine, with unsatisfactory results. After listening to the drum track of the already-recorded 'Night Fever', they took two bars from that track, and re-recorded them as a loop on a separate tape. As a joke, the group listed the drummer as 'Bernard Lupe' a riff on session drummer Bernard Purdie. The music video shows the group singing the song on an abandoned subway terminal set at MGM Studios, directly opposite the one where the Sgt.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band movie was being filmed at the same time.
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