Just how popular were the Bee Gees at the height of their fame? This popular: over a 32-week period in 1977 and 1978, a song written or performed by the Gibb brothers was number one on the Billboard ...
This exhaustive biography takes the same approach to its subject as Meyer’s critically acclaimed bio of country-rock legend Gram Parsons (Twenty Thousand Roads): the author is a fan, but he doesn’t ...
Really, did any act in the rock era have a bigger comeback than the Bee Gees? The mere mention of the band’s name, of course, instantly conjures up the all too familiar white suits, chest hair and ...
The Bee Gees are a musical group that was originally made up of three brothers: Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio was successful for most of their 40-plus years of recording music, but they had ...
Plump new biographies of two different charismatic cult leaders whose Beatles obsessions combined to kill the ’60s dead: murderin’ Family man Charles Manson, and falsettoin’ man-family the Bee Gees!
BEYOND the basic Bee Gees mystery of 'who are these guys?' lies the more pervasive and enduring mystery of why do we all so respond to their music? When I started this book and began to tick off Bee ...
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, ...
It's hard to understand why David Meyer wrote this book. Moreover, who is the intended audience for it? The biography is not a tribute to the Bee Gees, which means that fans will have no reason to ...
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