and especially Barry Gibb, wrote lots of songs in their early days they didn’t manage to jam onto their own prolific releases. Even before they moved from Australia to England in 1967, they’d already placed a lot of songs with other artists, primarily in Australia. Most of them aren’t...
Barry and Robin Gibb wrote this song and the Bee Gees included their version on theirChildren of the Worldalbum in 1976, but they didn’t release it as a single. Later that same year, Yvonne Elliman released “Love Me” as a single, and it went to #14 on the US. pop charts....
Barry Gibb wrote the title song for the John Travolta/Olivia Newton-John summer blockbuster Grease. In an inspired move, the movie cast a star who was more or less from the era depicted in the film to sing it. This should have been an Oscar contender for best original song, but only ...
"It was, like, the first really good song I ever wrote,"Fogertysaid of "Proud Mary," which began a run of five consecutive Top Three singles forCCR. He wrote the song, later unforgettably covered by Ike and Tina Turner, after his Army discharge: "I was fooling with the chord changes ...
When Barry Gibb and son Stephen sang incredible acoustic duet of Bee Gees' Words and Stayin' Alive The heartbreaking song the Bee Gees wrote in tribute to their late brother Andy Gibb Bee Gees Remembering Barry Gibb's mind-blowing Glastonbury performance of 'Stayin' Alive'...
When Robin, Barry, and Maurice Gibb wrote the song for the movie “Saturday Night Fever”, they do not have any idea what the movie is all about. They originally want Yvonne Elliman to sing the song. However, Robert Stigwood, the group’s manager, asserted that the group should record ...
“The song blended the two Gibb brothers schools of songwriting: it has the clear verse and chorus structure favored by Robin and Maurice, yet also has the longer spun-out verses Barry now preferred, both well balanced, so that it has instant appeal but takes repeated listenings to fully ap...
Lou Reed wrote so many songs about drugs that when he wrote songs that werenotabout drugs, people tended not to believe him. Such was the case with "Perfect Day," which many presumed to be another ode to addiction. "No, that's not true," hesaidin 2000. "I don't object to that,...
Lou Reed wrote so many songs about drugs that when he wrote songs that werenotabout drugs, people tended not to believe him. Such was the case with "Perfect Day," which many presumed to be another ode to addiction. "No, that's not true," hesaidin 2000. "I don't object to that,...
Lou Reed wrote so many songs about drugs that when he wrote songs that werenotabout drugs, people tended not to believe him. Such was the case with "Perfect Day," which many presumed to be another ode to addiction. "No, that's not true," hesaidin 2000. "I don't object to that,...