The history of this famous song begins in mid -1977 , when the producer of the soundtrack, Robert Stigwood ( who also had the job of being the manager of the Bee Gees ) had the brilliant idea of ​​making a film whose main influence was disco after reading an article in the New York Times about the music scene in the nightclubs of Brooklyn.

After researching more about " Discomania " Robert decided to change the Gibb brothers , who were in France preparing his next album , to deliver a very important mission : To participate in the film project writing a title song and others that were part of the soundtrack for some of the most important scenes .

It should be noted that the band was recording , like many other British bands in Château d' Hérouville in Paris ( all because of taxes ! ) And received the news with special tranquility, and relying on their talent as composers , got down to the work to begin taking a song that was the main part of the soundtrack of the film project .

In those days the band was clear that the musical style to be used was the falsetto (but not abused to reach the end of boredom ) and that was due to the good reception that had the song " Jive Talkin '" (published in 1975 ) in the media and in the Disco music scene .

After several demos , the band came to selecting a piece that was named "Saturday Night" , which had all the energy I needed a good song Disco.

After several conversations, the band and their manager decided to record this song as the main theme for the promotion of the film . A look that agreed with some details and made some changes, such as baptize this time as "Stayin 'Alive" , the Gibb brothers undertook

his musical direction.

Unfortunately , within hours of starting to record the song one of the session musicians had to abandon ship. It was the drummer Dennis Byron , who in the middle of the recording sessions received the tragic news that his father was very ill and had to pack to travel urgently to England for obvious reasons.