Barry Gibb, the eldest of the brothers who would become the Bee Gees, was born in 1946, followed three years later by twins Robin and Maurice. This was on the Isle of Man, but toddlers are toddlers ...
Two years after arriving in the UK from Australia, the Gibb brothers already had a few hits, but they were gunning for the ...
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 ...
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, ...
For one week in April of 1964, the top five singles on the Billboard Hot 100 were all Beatles songs. It's the only time a single artist had ever occupied the entire top five. It'll probably never ...