The Bee Gees were too busy when first presented with the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack project and had "no interest" in reading the script.
Bill Oakes, who won a Grammy award for the soundtrack to the 1977 film starring John Travolta, was also head of the band's record company RSO.
He recounts his experiences with the band, made up of brothers Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, during their successful yet turbulent 1970s in the new documentary The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart.
Oakes said: "People say they were commissioned to write the soundtrack but I went to show them the script in France where they were mixing a live album and they had no interest in reading the script. "So to say they were commissioned, it sounds much more
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