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, ...
As a movie, Saturday Night Fever is one hell of a downer. Brooklyn teenager Tony Manero -- John Travolta, who will appear in this column pretty soon -- is an electric dancer, a joy to watch, but his ...
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 ...
1975 was a banner year for white British men getting fascinated with black American music, doing everything they could to put their own spin on it: Elton John's "Philadelphia Freedom," the Average ...
“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 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, ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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