The Bee Gees Essay, Research Paper
THE BEE GEES
The Bee Gees have always display a unique style of elaborte harmony
and melodic structure. Despite a career setback due more in part to a
perceived disco lifestyle and flavor percipitated by the media than to actual
mucical direction, the group persevers, reminding listeners that long before
there was Saturday night Fever, there was a group comprised of three
talentd brothers once hailed by Robert stigwood as the The new Beatles.
The group s first LP released in the United States, The Bee Gees
First, followed the succeeeful singles spicks and specks and New York
Mining Disaster-1941 in the 1967. As their record saled increased the
group tourned extensively in the Eurpe and the United States promoting a
series of hit songs such as the melodic i Stated a Joke and one of their
best sellers, Words. IN 1969, after their concept album Odessa went
almost unnoticed, Robin Gibb parted company with his brothers for a brief
solo career rejoining them in 1970 for the hit singled Lonely Days. The
folloeing years found them touring again, gromting a new album and
enjoying their number one hit on the U.S. charts, How Can You Mend a
Broken Heart.
The Bee Gees were born in england; Barry was born in 1947 and the
twins, Maurice and Robin, in Manchester in 1949. The brothers began
profoming as a Blue Cats at the early age, countinuing their musical act
when the family emigrated to Australia in 1958. After debating on
Brisbane s ABC tv channel, the Gibbs won their own weekly TV series and
the Bee Gess quickly becam the favorite group of Australia s teens and
preteens. Their first single three Kisses of love, was released by Festival
Records in 1963 and made the top 20 in Australia, to be followed by a
number of hit singles over the next few years. Retuning to England in 1967
the group signed with Robert stigwood of NEMS andding drummer Colin
Peterson to their group and having a sell out debut at the saville Theatre in
London.
The next two years were modest ones, with little changing in the
group s focus until they began to use a rhythm and blues sound that would
soon lead to the disco sound that group became associated with in the mid
1970.
THough the group s participation in Fever was casual, the immediate
success of the album, which sold over 40 million copies, linked the Bee
Gees directly to the disco sound and the white suit, gold chain image created
by the film. This image would prove more difficult to shcke after ten years
than their participation with Petter Frampton in the 1978 in the
ill-comceived and received movie version of sgt. Pepper;s Lonly hearts
Club Band. Said Barrry I think what people don t like is the whole disco
syndrome which is more about style and not about the music. A lot of
people tend to have forgotten that there more to us than that stuff. We were
probably on our fourth platinum album by the time the fever thing cam
along.