The Bee Gees

[lemons]

I believe Robin had a solo album and small tour since Maurice passed away.

And poor Mrs. Gibb to outlive two sons.

I enjoyed their A&E biography.

[rattlerbrat]

Oh gosh, I actually cancelled a date that night just because the Bee Gees's Biography was going to play. I don't even know what I told the guy. One thing I think Biography did a good job showing is that the Bee Gees weren't just the Saturday Night Fever guys. In fact, only a few - maybe 4 - of their hits actually came from that soundtrack! It was also cute to hear Barry describing himself as "a bit of a cad". He told Biography that he used to have a bunch of rings that he'd carry around with him so he could give one to a girl and have sex with her. "Wow, I think I'm in love with you - take my ring!" Oh, Barry.

The disco backlash may have inadvertenly been the best thing that ever happened to their careers in the long run. Songwriting (which was what they had to do once they couldn't pay to have their records played) is where the REAL money is (that, and producing). "Heartbreaker" is still one of the best songs I've ever heard (and a GREAT song to sing when you're very, very drunk).

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I have been calling up How Can You Mend A Broken Heart and If I Can't Have You on my I-Pod with alarming frequency over the last few weeks. Amazing songs, the pair of them.

I own the Greatest Hits album solely because I'd seen the video to 'Alone', and was seriously embarrassed when I bought it. Imagine my surprise when it became one of the most listened-to albums in my collection. Brilliant band, I reckon. Much better than they're frequently given credit for. And it always kind of pisses me off that everyone points to the suede suits and haircuts of the Saturday Night Fever disco age (which, alright, do have the whiff of cheese about them) and then proceed to write the band's whole career and, usually, the whole decade off as if it's worthless and culturally vapid. Because Robbie Williams and Big Brother represent SUCH a cultural leap, don't they? [/rant]

(With apologies to any Robbie Williams / Big Brother fans out there)

[carrier76]

What amazes me is how many songs that the Brothers Gibb wrote and didn't perform, including "Heartbreaker" (which, rattlerbrat, is good to sing ANY time. ), "Islands in the Stream," "If I Can't Have You," and especially "Emotion" by Samantha Sang, and later by Destiny's Child (funny story about that...a friend of mine who didn't know that the BeeGees wrote this told me she felt like it had a BeeGee vibe. Ha!). Once you realize it's by them, you realize that they all have that "sound."

Did they also write Andy Gibb's songs?

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Has anyone here had the "pleasure" of seeing them in Sgt. Pepper's Loney Heart's Club Band? Somehow or other I happened to see it, but I don't remember what Beatles songs they sang. They looked very cheesy in that. The only part of the movie I liked was towards the end when Sgt. Pepper himself (Billy Preston!) transformed from a statue (I think) into Pepper and performed "Get Back."

(Wow, I just realized that earlier I posted in the Battlefield Earth thread and said a part at the very end was the only thing I liked -- and that involved a Pepper, too...)

Anyhow, I had an aunt who used to play their earlier, pre-disco stuff. I liked a lot of it. Especially "Lonely Days, Lonely Nights." A lot of it was really sexy, believe it or not.

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I can remember being in college listening to Delilah after Dark on the radio (I know, pure cheese)and "Whose Sorry Now" would come on. Barbra and Barry rocked on that song. I would belt it out, tears streaming, wronged woman that I was. People in the cars beside me probably thought I was having a breakdown, but damn, that is an emotional song.

Count me in as a huge Brothers Gibb fan. In the A and E concert that you were speaking of above, they do a lovely version of "Don't Throw it all Away" as a tribute to Andy. Very beautiful, of course, I boo hoo whenever I hear it. I was so shocked and sad to hear of Maurice's death. ***Heading off to find Borokat's Bee Gees mixed tape.***

[ownlife]

When I had a summer job at a NYC non-profit back in the 70s, the BeeGees had a fund-raising premiere of Sgt Pepper. Every woman in the agency, from the college students like me to the 80 year old retiree who put in a few hours each week, was beyond excited at the prospect of meeting Barry Gibb, no one cared about the other Gs. Well, they all stopped by for a staff meet-and-greet and I met Barry and shook his hand. They were all very nice but Barry was quite charming and had the sexiest voice. *sigh* I've always been a big fan of the Brothers Gibb and that night was just the whipped cream icing on the cake.

[Ninja Bunny]

Bee Gees (and ABBA) = best. pop. music. ever.

[PearlySweetcake]

Eeeeeee! Babs 'n' Barry have a new cd, Guilty Pleasures, coming out on Sept. 20, which is (yikes!) 25 years after the original release of Guilty. Gad, I feel old......

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I like some of their songs, but not recorded by them: the falsetto drives me nuts. I like the ocassional falsetto, but not never-ending.