rso films' next production, "saturday night fever", became one of the biggest hits in the history of the business and dramatically catapulted the bee gees to superstardom, taking them back to the top of the charts in dramatic fashion, scoring them three consecutive no.1 hits. the film also launched tv actor john travolta to international stardom. the 2-lp soundtrack album, written by and featuring the bee gees, became the biggest selling soundtrack album ever released. the group reportedly wrote the songs 'to order' without having seen the film, and according to frank rose's 1977 "rolling stone" article about the bee gees, at least four of the songs — including "stayin' alive" – were written in just one week. stigwood followed this with another hugely successful film adaptation of one of his stage productions, the rock'n'roll musical "grease" (1978), which co-starred travolta and australian singer olivia newton-john, which featured additional material by expatriate australian songwriter-producer john farrar.