“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 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, ...
The brothers' ambition paid off in a big way. The Gibbs formed their first band in the mid-'50s, when Barry was nine and the twins were six; 10 years later, after the family moved from the UK to ...
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 ...
“Stayin’ Alive” is the Bee Gees’ most recognizable song, and arguably one of the most well-known dance tracks ever created. The song was the first track off the hugely successful soundtrack to ...
It must've seemed like it was going to keep going forever. In a year and a half, the Bee Gees had hit #1 with six consecutive singles, something only the Beatles had done previously, and that's not ...
It also smartly notes that disco itself was born long before the Bee Gees, Saturday Night Fever, or capitalism caught up to it. Photo: Courtesy of HBO/Shutterstock The Bee Gees became, and remain, ...
With his carefully tended hair, tight trousers and perfect harmonies, Robin Gibb, along with his brothers Maurice and Barry, defined the disco era. As part of the Bee Gees – short for the Brothers ...
This kitten-soft stroll through 20 of The Bee Gees’ evergreens wasn’t concerned with any such existential dilemma. Amanda Holden’s excited-puppy voiceover wasn’t made for questioning. So thankfully, ...
Two of the biggest -- and let's be honest, most dissimilar -- bands of the late '70s, Pink Floyd and the Bee Gees, have perhaps their most iconic songs from that peculiar era slammed together to ...