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The Ballad Written for Someone Else: How ‘How Deep Is Your Love’ Became the Bee Gees’ Tender Masterpiece
The Ballad Written for Someone Else: How “How Deep Is Your Love” Became the Bee Gees’ Tender Masterpiece “I know your eyes in the morning sun, I feel you touch me in the pouring rain.” Of all the records the Bee Gees made at the peak of their powers — the strutting falsetto of “Stayin’…
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Barry Gibb: The Heart Behind the Harmony
He is the last Bee Gee — the eldest brother, the falsetto, the songwriter behind some of the biggest records ever made. Barry Gibb has survived disco, backlash, and the unbearable loss of all three of his brothers. Ask him what saved him, and he won’t talk about the music. He’ll talk about Linda. Linda…
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How the Bee Gees Made “Spirits Having Flown” — and Gave a #1 Hit to the World’s Children
In January 1979, the Bee Gees were the biggest band on earth. “Saturday Night Fever” had sold tens of millions of copies. They had three brothers, one falsetto, and the entire planet dancing. Every record company on earth would have advised them to do the obvious thing: make “Saturday Night Fever II,” cash the check,…
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The Untold Story of the Bee Gees: The Brothers Who Survived Everything (Except Disco)
They were supposed to be a footnote. Three brothers from the Isle of Man who sang themselves hoarse at an Australian speedway, got mistaken for the Beatles, broke up, made up, invented disco, were destroyed by disco, and then quietly wrote half the hits of the eighties for other people. The Bee Gees survived every…