As stated previously I was never a fan of the Bee Gees especially during the I hate Disco period. As I have gotten older I have found an appreciation I guess because it reminds me of my youth. I just watched the documentary Bee Gees this is where I come in and as I type Barry Gibb the last Bee Gee.

I have a new found respect and appreciation for what they accomplished. Not only as the Bee Gees but but music they wrote for other artists the movie Saturday night Fever and their love as brothers. I will listen to the Bee Gees very differently than I did before.

Thank you guys for your contribution to music and being a part of my youth.

Saturday Night Fever but I concur on the rest. :)

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LOL, you're right. I fixed it.SmileWavy

An interesting tid bit their manager Robert Stigwood arranged a meeting with Otis Redding early on in their career. Stigwood challenged Barry to write a song for Otis Redding. Barry wrote "To love somebody" Barry sang the body of the song when Stigwood returned from dinner. Otis Redding died before he could record the song. So the Bee Gees recorded it themselves.

What blew my mind was Stigwood produced Saturday Night Fever. The songs "Night Fever", "Stayin Alive", "If I can't have you" "More than a woman" were all written before they were asked to compose the music for the movie. They pulled the music off the shelf of music they had already written. The Album sold tthirty million copies and remained the best selling sound track for twenty years.

In 1978 five of the top ten spots of the Billboard top 100 were written and produced by the brothers.

There were people who made "Disco" their lifestyle back in the 70s. Now that it's more nostalgia, it's in proper context and the music by itself seems more creative and entertaining. But you have to be able to separate the symbolism of self-absorbed beatnik away from musical creative expression, which is what it is to me. I play all sorts of disco songs in my playlist.

The late comic Tim Wilson on being a Bee Gees fan:

"You know you're secure with your masculinity when you can blow into a rest area at two in the morning with 'Stayin' Alive' blasting out your driver's side window."

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If there isn't an AI program that will create that perfectly.........there soon will be.

(I'm still waiting for a 30 second thrash metal version of Tangerine Dream's Zeit.)

Someone once used a computer program and made an extended song using every single drum beat in existence combo possible.
Mathematically it is very do-able.

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Yes, finally.

Barry saying goodbye in song.

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Here is the New York magazine article that inspired Saturday Night Fever. It was called Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night. Curl up for a half hour and imagine that outside your window it's the summer of 1976.

https://nymag.com/nightlife/features/45933/

Jive talkin' bam chicka chicka bam bam..

MRM that was a great read, thanks for posting.

Just sayin'....

Maurice Gibb had an odd artifact he pulled out backstage for a laugh -- it was a t-shirt he'd found that said "Shoot the Bee Gees." His brothers did indeed laugh -- shoot the Bee Gees? It was inconceivable that anyone would bear ill will toward a group of such unbridled success. But in the streets, a vicious backlash against disco had been percolating, and when it struck, the Bee Gees were indeed the primary target. In the space of six months, the group went from being a Beatlesesque phenomenon, dominating the airwaves, to pariahs who were effectively banned from radio. It may be the most precipitous fall from grace in music history. They hadn't been literally shot, but careerwise, the Bee Gees were dead.

Andy ...

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They were pretty fantastic pre-disco

They chose that name so they would be close to the Beatles in the record stores.