"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