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"How Deep Is Your Love"
#1 weeks: 2
weeks: 1977-12-24, 1977-12-31
genre: soft rock
artist: Bee Gees
album: Saturday Night Fever
writers: Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb
producers: Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb, Albhy Galuten, and Karl Richardson
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formats: vinyl record (7" 45 RPM)

"How Deep Is Your Love" is a song recorded by the Bee Gees in 1977. Originally intended for Yvonne Elliman, it was ultimately used as part of the soundtrack to the film Saturday Night Fever. It was a number three hit in the UK. In the U.S., it topped the Hot 100 on 24 December 1977 and stayed in the Top 10 for a then-record 17 weeks. The song also spent six weeks atop the U.S. adult contemporary chart. The song was ranked #366 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Along with "Stayin' Alive", it is one of the group's two songs on the list. The song also lists at #20 on Billboard's All Time Top 100.It was famously covered by Take That for their 1996 Greatest Hitsalbum, reaching number one on the UK Singles Chart for three weeks. In 1983, The Bee Gees were sued by a Chicago songwriter, Ronald Selle, who claimed that the Gibb brothers stole melodic material from one of his songs, "Let It End," and used it in "How Deep Is Your Love." At first, The Bee Gees lost the case; one juror said that a factor in the jury's decision was the Gibbs' failure to introduce expert testimony rebutting the plaintiff's expert testimony that it was "impossible" for the two songs to have been written independently. However, the verdict was overturned a few months later. Two music videos were made for this song. In one, the brothers are singing while an image of a woman shows throughout the video. Barry Gibb had his beard shaven off in this video, as in the "Night Fever" video. A second video was later made in which the brothers sing while passing by a stream of rainbow lights. In this video Barry Gibb is bearded.

Take That's version was released as a single from their Greatest Hitscompilation in 1996. The single went on to become what was to be the band's final U.K. number one until their 2005 comeback a decade later. The song stayed at number one in the UK charts for three weeks. The single sold 670,000 copies and has received a Platinum sales status certification in the UK.

The video saw the four members of the band tied to chairs and in a basement. A blonde woman (actress and model Paula Hamilton) looking slightly deranged with smeared mascara walks into the basement and circles the four members individually pulling their hair. She then puts them all into her van and drives down the motorway. She stops by a reservoir and has the four members placed on the edge, she points at each member before grabbing Gary's rope and pushes him back still holding on. Her fingers slip through the rope and he falls backwards, the others look shocked as she does. She then smirks and it is unsure whether she meant to get rid of him or not.

New Zealand RnB group Adeaze released the song as a single in 2004