Also Read: Surviving Bee Gee Barry Gibb Says He'd Rather Have His Brothers 'Back Here and No Hits at All'Released in 1977, just over a year after serial killer David “Son of Sam” Berkowitz terrorized New York during the summer of 1976 with eight unprovoked slayings across the city, the song was produced during the time, aptly described by Irish writer Dermot McEvoy, when “New York’s grime was golden” and the lyrics reflect the uncertain state of things in America’s biggest city.In fact, the Bee Gees wrote the song as an homage to New York’s gritty streets during that era, as to their influences from Black culture and R&B, as noted by the lyrical references to the plights of minority New Yorkers sprinkled in between the catchy.
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