
The multiple award-winning group was successful for most of its forty years of recording music. But just one song that made their entire lives change and it was "Saturday Night Fever".
On the interview at Larry King Live, the Bee Gees expressed their simple process to super stardom. It was the movie starring John Travolta.They didn't expect the movie to be a hit nor it could catapult them to superstar status.
K: What did that movie do for you?
B.G: Well, it made us wealthy young men. It put food on our tables. We suddenly just became larger than life. We weren't just the Bee Gees anymore, we were the Bee Gees. It's a different thing.
K: The Bee Gees?
B.G: Yeah.
R.G.: And the thing about "Saturday Night Fever" was it became, people that bought "Saturday Night Fever" -- the album -- were people that probably never bought albums. It was thing to have, you see. And judges would go out and buy it.
K: It was a hit beyond hit.
M.G: The whole world wanted to dance.
K: And "Staying Alive" was the hit from it?
M.G: That's like the national anthem.
M.G: But it seems today to have a life of its own today, you know.
From this movie, it catapulted them to super status. The Gibb brothers earned the Rock and Roll Hall of fame to as the British Music Family. On their citation award ...
Their 1997 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame citation says "Only Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Garth Brooks and Paul McCartney have outsold the Bee Gees"