Just watched the BeeGees documentary on HBO. However you feel now about that era of music they were incredibly popular. In 1977 they had 7 #1 hits and the Saturday Night Fever album is the 4th highest selling of all time. Barry Gibb was an incredibly talented song writer for his time as well. The documentary is well done and offers a fun flashback to America in the late 70s.
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***BeeGees Documentary***
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Really well done. I enjoyed it.
I watched it too, very well done. Like JT said, the Bee Gees are ****ing awesome!
Love that era of music...thanks for the rec...
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Where's the bit about the Sgt Pepper movie disaster? Barry Gibb must have had final edit or co-producer credits.
Not a big fan, but I really like this song. This whole Storytellers episode was really good.
I really enjoyed this doc. It's amazing how bands/artists can get slotted in your head based on very little. I was in grade school in the 70s so I was aware of the popularity of the Bee Gees and disco. In high school in the 80s I definitely fell into the "disco sux" camp and I basically wrote them off as a joke. Later I came to realize that they had a career before disco but I never checked out their work because in my head they were still a joke disco band. This really opened my eyes to the Bee Gees as artists and songwriters. I had to hit pause in disbelief when they mentioned in the doc that Stigwood took 2 acts with him when he started RSO, Clapton and the pre-disco Bee Gees.
Wow, I've never seen that....awesome.gggmann said:
Not a big fan, but I really like this song. This whole Storytellers episode was really good.
What a great documentary! iconic sounds familiar even to this day. I don't really remember that idiotic comiskey park "book burning-reminiscent" event that devolved into vandalism...but then again it was in Chicago, so no big surprise there! Amazing how it sent them from the heights of popularity to being shunned by radio stations. They got the last laugh and wrote many more iconic songs for so many other artists.
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I came here to say "you lost me at 'Bee Gees Documentary'".
But based on the comments.... maybe I'll check it out.
But based on the comments.... maybe I'll check it out.
Do, I also didn't realize they had sone hits starting in the late 60's. I never liked disco but they did have an amazing multidecade body of work.
The Bee Gees and ABBA took a lot of **** back in the day, but I can't think of too many people who don't like some of their stuff....same with Barry Mannilow.
Decided to watch the documentary because of this thread. I'm glad I did. So well done. Hearing Barry talk in the end about his brothers was a gut punch.
Agreed...especially when he said..."And I'm the oldest and the only one left"Sports-Ag said:
Decided to watch the documentary because of this thread. I'm glad I did. So well done. Hearing Barry talk in the end about his brothers was a gut punch.
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We watched this last night. Like others I knew their disco-era stuff.
Floored by the amount of success they had before that incarnation of their style.
It is incredible how they transitioned from decade to decade and had such phenomenal success in different manners.
Floored by the amount of success they had before that incarnation of their style.
It is incredible how they transitioned from decade to decade and had such phenomenal success in different manners.
Staff - take out the trash.
My mom loved the Bee-Gees and I vividly remember listening in the car to their songs. But she only listened to the pre-falsetto/disco stuff. It blew my mind when I got older and found out that the people singing "Stayin' Alive" was the same band.
Great doc. The Bee Gees were the best band in the world for a few years. Then became the most lame, hated band in the world for a few years. Kind of like the Eagles.
Play lists on radio were tiny. In a market like DFW there were about 6-8 really massively popular stations. Two country. Two pop. Two authentic rock. So one pop station really had rock/country like the eagles, Linda Ronstadt, The Bee Gees, some R&B stuff like Ray Charles or Willie Nelson and a little bit of everything with only a play set of maybe 40 songs each week.
So we all heard all kinds of music all the time.
I grew up with The Bee Gees. Went to disco dance lessons in 7th grade. We all went to our first discotheque at the end. Crazy fun. Took me back.
Play lists on radio were tiny. In a market like DFW there were about 6-8 really massively popular stations. Two country. Two pop. Two authentic rock. So one pop station really had rock/country like the eagles, Linda Ronstadt, The Bee Gees, some R&B stuff like Ray Charles or Willie Nelson and a little bit of everything with only a play set of maybe 40 songs each week.
So we all heard all kinds of music all the time.
I grew up with The Bee Gees. Went to disco dance lessons in 7th grade. We all went to our first discotheque at the end. Crazy fun. Took me back.
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