1975 was a banner year for white British men getting fascinated with black American music, doing everything they could to put their own spin on it: Elton John's "Philadelphia Freedom," the Average ...

The guitar that set the Bee Gees on the road to Saturday Night Fever and international disco stardom is to go under the hammer. The Gibson J45 acoustic was used by Maurice Gibb to compose the band’s ...

The year was 1975, and the bands at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 were, well, groups that have mostly since been forgotten 50 years later. That is, except for the name who spent the most weeks at ...

The Bee Gees' fall from commercial grace was directly tied to changing attitudes about disco music as the '80s loomed. Even the band members themselves were pondering where the future might lead.

A hit in both the U.S. and U.K. when it was originally released, this death-row love letter, featuring lyrics and a lead vocal by Robin Gibb, was supposedly written for soul singer Percy Sledge (who ...

Maurice Gibb used the Gibson J45 acoustic guitar to compose Jive Talkin’ and now it is expected to sell for over £10,000. The guitar that set the Bee Gees on the road to Saturday Night Fever and ...

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