The elephant in the discotheque is the Bee Gees.
Their dominance of the charts in the disco era was above and beyond Chic, Giorgio Morodor, even Donna Summer. Their soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever sold thirty million copies. They were responsible for writing and producing eight of 1978's American number ones, something only Lennon and McCartney in 1963/64 could rival - and John and Paul hadn't been the producers, only the writers.
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Total pop domination can have fierce consequences. Elvis had been packed off to the army; the Beatles had received Ku Klux Klan death threat - the Bee Gees received the mother of all backlashes, taking the full brunt of the anti-disco movement. ... Almost overnight, nobody played Bee Gees records on the radio, and pretty much nobody bought them
B. Stanley, Yeah yeah yeah: the story of modern pop (2013), 472-3
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