Robert Stigwood

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I said there'd be words, but not only from our sponsors, from myself as well, before we move to the next track, because the producer of Saturday Night Fever, Robert Stigwood, asked the band to write a song he wanted called Saturday Night.

However, they wanted, well, Robin in particular, wanted to capture the feeling of New York at the time.

It was a high energy level song.

So, Staying Alive isn't about dancing, it's about survival.

Robert Stigwood didn't like that.

He said, please can you write me a song called Saturday Night, we're not using this.

To which the retort was, well if you don't use it, we'll stick it on our own album.

And that had sparked my curiosity.

That was focused mostly on like Robert Stigwood and Kit Lambert and Brian Epstein.

And for me personally, it's because I had a big brother who was obsessed with punk.

The Dead Kennedys, the Dead Milkmen, the Ramones, but also heavy metal, Metallica.

... times its, uh, layout.

It was Robert Stigwood invested in it as well as Nat Cohen, the Bee Gees manager.

Yes.

Yeah.

"Los Angeles, AP.

Producer Robert Stigwood has announced, quote, 'signing of Johnny Travolta to a three-picture contract, which will begin with Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night,'" which I'm pretty sure you can figure out what movie that becomes.

[coughs] We'll certainly get to that.

But, so he then makes a TV movie that's pretty p- pretty fucking popular when it comes out.

No.

Well, you know, this is produced by Robert Stigwood.

Yes.

Who is the Bee Gees.

So he's doing the...

Yeah,

because I think he was on Robert Stigwood's label as well.

He is, because he's in the Sgt Pepper's movie, yeah.

Because I'm going to push you until you think you're going to die.

Paramount Pictures presents John Travolta in a Robert Stigwood production.

A Sylvester Stallone film.

staying alive

It

just seems to be like something, maybe that's just internet, you know, somebody posted it one time and it just became a thing.

Producer Robert Stigwood, he's

their manager, isn't he, the Bee Gees manager? Yeah, and he produced Grease, didn't he? He produced Grease? Yeah, he produced Grease, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And I mean, uh, I mean, Sarah Ferguson was getting her, her temporary pedicurist to sign NDAs.

And I've got a story in the book of, of people who she was trying to, uh, become a sort of pop impresario and, and, and promote sort of pop groups using her mates like Elton John, uh, and Robert Stigwood.

And, and before these people could even do anything, there was some heavy at the door making them sign NDAs.

Uh, and I remember approaching one of her temporary chefs from thirty years ago, and he wouldn't even confirm whether he'd been her chef or not, he was so frightened.