Jive Talkin'

We didn't know what was gonna happen." It was, uh, Eric Clapton, of all people, who suggested that they move to Florida and try their hand at this hot new trend called disco music.

[laughs] Jive Talkin' was their first stab at this, and it was also the first time Barry started singing in falsetto rather than his usual tone.

Jive Talkin' was a hit, and it looked like the Bee Gees might have found a way to reignite their career, so they started writing some new songs in the same style.

As it happened, at around the same time, their longtime manager, Robert Stigwood, had bought the rights to an article that had been published in New York Magazine called Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night.

Uh, this was a, a piece by the British journalist Nik Cohn about working-class kids in the New York suburbs who got dressed up every Saturday night to go dancing.