Stayin' Alive

December 13, 1977

Stayin 'Alive is a disco song by the Bee Gees. The piece was on 13 December 1977 as a single from the soundtrack to the film Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track published. It reached on February 4, 1978 # 1 on the Billboard Hot 100

It was set by the music magazine Rolling Stone ranked 191 of the 500 best songs of all time.

History

Stayin 'Alive was written by the Gibb brothers and recorded in 1977 at Château d' Hérouville, Hérouville, France with producer Albhy Galuten and Karl Richardson. Since the group's drummer, Dennis Byron, was not available because of his mother's death, two bars of the previously recorded song Night Fever were consecutively recorded on a tape ( " looped " ) and used for Stayin 'Alive. As a drummer, you were " Bernard Lupé " on ( " French " a reference to the session drummer Bernard Purdie ). Bernard Lupé was a sought-after percussionists, until it became known that it did not exist it.

Music Video

In the music video you can see the three Bee Gees, among others on the stairs and in the windows of a dilapidated house as well as in an old railroad car.

Use for medical education

" Stayin 'Alive " has been identified in several studies about training medical personnel for chest compressions as a songwriter with the ideal clock frequency, the quality of chest compressions was thus often significantly higher. 2011 appeared an action video of the American Heart Association, in which the doctor Ken Jeong occurs in the suit of John Travolta. Other institutions advertise now with this song.