The Bee Gees had quite a run in the late '60s and early '70s, when they scored nearly a dozen memorable pop hits, among them "To Love Somebody," "Words," "I've Gotta Get a Message to You," "I Started ...
“Jive Talkin’” is based around some appropriated lingo the Bee Gees shouldn’t have been using. There’s a reason you don’t hear it today. The fact that this song topped the Billboard Hot 100 in the ...
The Bee Gees released some of the most enduring songs of the 1970s; however, the band’s popularity decreased following a major backlash against disco. The Bee Gees’ Maurice Gibb said this backlash was ...
When the Bee Gees released their single “Jive Talkin’” in May 1975, it marked a major stylistic turning point in the band’s history. The brotherly trio had already enjoyed success. Between 1967 and ...
From “Stayin' Alive” to “More Than A Woman,” the Bee Gees have had a monumental impact on music. However, their influence in the music scene extends beyond just recording iconic disco hits that ...
Odessa was a very ambitious effort, and it was unfortunately one that caused the band to come apart at the seams. The Gibb brothers decided to reform their band with a new sense of creativity and ...
The HBO documentary “The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart” traces the decades-long arc of a band that mastered a rare pop skill: adaptation. By Jon Pareles Discovered, embraced, disbanded, ...
1975 was a banner year for white British men getting fascinated with black American music, doing everything they could to put their own spin on it: Elton John's "Philadelphia Freedom," the Average ...
For one week in April of 1964, the top five singles on the Billboard Hot 100 were all Beatles songs. It's the only time a single artist had ever occupied the entire top five. It'll probably never ...
Though the Bee Gees have nine of their own No. 1 hits, dozens more in the Top 40, earned five Grammy Awards alone for composing the music for the 1978 film Saturday Night Fever, and sold more than 220 ...
There's more to the story of the Bee Gees than meets the eye. Brothers Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb formed the Bee Gees, known for hits like “How Deep Is Your Love” and “Love So Right,” and became ...