Bee Gees – How Deep Is Your Love

“How Deep Is Your Love” – Single by Bee Gees from the album Saturday Night Fever. Released September 1977.

In the United States, it topped the Billboard Hot 100 on 24 December 1977 and stayed in the Top 10 for 17 weeks. It spent six weeks atop the US adult contemporary chart. It is listed at No. 27 on Billboard’s All Time Top 100.

The Bee Gees wrote this love song at the Château d’Hérouville in France – the “Honky Chateau” where Elton John recorded three albums in the early ’70s. When they arrived to record songs for Saturday Night Fever, they found it had been neglected – the studio worked, but the grounds were a mess. This gave them focus because they had little reason to leave the studio.

There was a beautiful room with a piano where their keyboard player, Blue Weaver, would play. One day, he played as Barry Gibb worked out “How Deep Is Your Love.” In the documentary How Can You Mend A Broken Heart, Weaver explained how it came together: “We went into a room at the Chateau. Chopin had stayed there, so every time I looked at this piano I envisioned Chopin playing. I sat down at the piano and thought of his ‘Prelude In E-flat,’ and I knew Barry could sing in E-flat. Through the stained-glass window came a beam of sunlight, and Barry sang, ‘I know your eyes in the morning sun.'”

The American singer Yvonne Elliman was supposed to record this song for Saturday Night Fever, but Robert Stigwood, who produced the movie, insisted the Bee Gees perform it themselves for the soundtrack. Elliman did sing “If I Can’t Have You,” which was written by the Bee Gees and included on the soundtrack. That song was also a #1 hit in the US.

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Bee Gees - How Deep Is Your Love (1977)03:58

Bee Gees
Barry Gibb – guitar, vocals
Robin Gibb – vocals
Maurice Gibb – bass guitar, vocals

Lyrics:
I know your eyes in the morning sun
I feel you touch me in the pouring rain
And the moment that you wander far from me
I wanna feel you in my arms again

And you come to me on a summer breeze
Keep me warm in your love and then softly leave
And it’s me you need to show

Chorus:
How deep is your love
I really need to learn
Cause were living in a world of fools
Breaking us down
When they all should let us be
We belong to you and me

I believe in you
You know the door to my very soul
Youre the light in my deepest darkest hour
Youre my saviour when I fall
And you may not think
I care for you
When you know down inside
That I really do
And it’s me you need to show

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