“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 breeding of the bee,” says a United States Department of Agriculture bulletin on artificial insemination, “has always been handicapped by the fact that the queen mates in the air with whatever ...
How Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees wrote a song about grease after he thought it was impossible to do so Grease began its life as a Broadway musical. When it was adapted to the screen, the filmmakers ...
Taking on a town known more for demolishing disco than giving it a feverish embrace takes some Aussie chutzpah — and at least three sets of tight white pants, ideally not too crumpled from the 747 ...
Ah, “Sound Of Love”. Few Bee Gees songs showcase just how well its members could belt out vocals like this one. Barry Gibb sounds particularly lovely on this 1969 track, as does Scott Walker’s moody ...
LOS ANGELES – The Bee Gees sold more than 120 million records and recorded 27 albums in the band's five decades together. But there was always one song in particular that the Gibb brothers -- Barry, ...
This was bound to be a somewhat bittersweet birthday for Barry Gibb, the only surviving brother in a family that bred one of the most successful sibling singing groups of all time. Born September 1 ...
An artist who scores US pop hits for a decade is exceedingly rare. How about 20 years? Even rarer still. And you can probably count on your fingers only the acts whose charting singles have stretched ...