“Can you imagine when the pressure’s off and we were just old men? And it just wasn’t going to happen that way, and that’s life itself.
“I always imagined us sitting around in our eighties and laughing, about everything that had ever happened to us, but what did I know?” He told Lowe during the interview. Robin passed in 2012, leaving Barry as the sole proprietor of BeeGees legacy. In 2003, Maurice died unexpectedly from a heart attack at age 53, marking 2001’s This Is Where I Came In as the last official Bee Gees record. The brothers released four more albums through 2001- High Civilization, Size Isn’t Everything, Still Waters, and This Is Where I Came In. Shortly after, Maurice sought treatment for alcoholism-which he had battled for several years. In August 1983, Barry signed a solo deal with MCA Records and spent much of late 19 writing songs for this first solo effort, Now Voyager. Robin released three solo albums and Maurice released his second single after his first in 1970.įollowing their younger brother, Andy’s premature death from the implications of a viral infection in 1988, Barry, Robin, and Maurice reunited to released One, with a special dedication to Andy, “Wish You Were Here.” They then teamed up with Eric Clapton for a philanthropic project as the Bunbury’s before their triple-platinum album, The Very Best of the Bee Gees in 1990. And that’s what we did.”ĭuring this decade, each brother stepped further into their own artistry. Let’s show everybody that we’re songwriters before we’re anything else.
So, why waste great songs? My feeling was let’s write for other people. That song and “Heartbreaker” were two that Robin wished Bee Gees had recorded on their own, but Barry clarified to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe in an interview for Essentials Radio, “That was the period where we just couldn’t get airplay. Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers brought a Bee Gees-penned track, “Islands in the Stream,” to infamy. Their chart-topping singles, “How Deep Is Your Love”, “Stayin’ Alive”, and “Night Fever” from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack escalated them within the disco-crazed music scene.ĭuring the ‘80s, the artists lent their individual songwriting talent to other acts of the time including Barbra Streisand (“Woman in Love”), Dionne Warwick (“Heartbreaker”), and Diana Ross (“Chain Reaction”). A contract to perform at a local speedway led to an illustrious career for a trio that defined disco-era music through the late 1970s. (If possible, songs that only were a hit as a cover not involving one of the brothers are replaced by the original Bee Gees/solo Gibb versions where a high quality demo version exists - except in the case of the two Barbra/Barry hits from 1979 that really should be heard as duets.In 1958, three UK-born brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb, began playing music for spending music in Queensland, Australia-where they had relocated with their family. these are all the Bee Gees songs that charted somewhere in the world - whether by them or by another artist. So, I wanted to see what a *truthful* hits compilation would look like. Recently I compiled my own 4 disc set based on 'Tales from the Brothers Gibb'. (If possible, songs that only were a hit as a cover not involving one of the brothers are replaced by the original Bee Gees/solo Gibb versions where a high quality demo version exists - except in the case of the two Barbra/Barry hits from 1979 that really should be heard as duets.)ġ0) All The King's Horses ġ4) Craise Finton Kirk Royal Academy of ArtsĢ3) Only One Woman Ġ4) The Walls Fell Down ġ1) If Only I Had My Mind On Something ElseĠ9) Words And Music (1975 version) ġ7) I Just Want To Be Your Everything ġ8) (Love Is) Thicker Than Water Ġ7) Emotion Ġ8) Shadow Dancing Ġ9) An Everlasting Love ġ0) (Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away Ġ2) I Can't Help It Ġ7) What Kind Of Fool Ġ8) All I Have To Do Is Dream Ġ9) Eaten Alive ġ0) Chain Reaction ġ1) The Runaway ġ6) Fight (No Matter How Long) ġ5) Stranger In A Strange Land ġ6) Night Of My Life ġ7) Come Tomorrow We get it - a couple songs from the psychedelic era, maybe a couple songs from the 80's and 90's, and lots of disco. I think one of the biggest reasons that casual fans simply don't care about 95% of the Bee Gees' music is because the greatest hits albums are SO DAMN LIMITED.