BEE GEES - THE BEST OF

BEE GEES formed in 1958 by brothers Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb and Maurice Gibb in Australia where their family had just emigrated, the Bee Gees group has experienced several very distinct artistic lives. If the first two albums hardly sparked enthusiasm and mainly compiled 45s, success came in 1967 with Bee Gees 1st and the hits “New York Mining Disaster 1941” and “To Love Somebody”. At this time, the group opted for baroque pop with soft psychedelic overtones that suited the period well. From the following album (Horizontal in 1967), Bee Gees scored their first British number one with “Massachusetts”. In 1968 the album Idea contained another gem with the song “I Started a Joke”. Despite these successes, Bee Gees remains considered a minor group compared to the behemoths of the time, although albums like Odessa (1969) or Trafalgar (1971) are worthy of interest. Bee Gees made their revolution in 1975 with the album Main Course and the track “Jive Talkin'”, precursors of disco. It is indeed thanks to disco that Bee Gees definitively made history by participating in the soundtrack of the film Saturday Night Fever (1977). The titles “Stayin' Alive”, “Night Fever” or “How Deep Is Your Love” became the markers of an entire generation fascinated by the emerging world of clubs like the famous Club 54 in New York. Benefiting from this enthusiasm, the album Spirits Having Flow in 1979 went platinum worldwide. The rest of Bee Gees' career is duller, the group moving towards pop rock without major relief, only the album Still Waters in 1997 was again a major success. Disbanded in 2003 due to the sudden death of Maurice Gibb, Bee Gees reformed briefly between 2009 and 2012 but without having time to record. The group is indeed affected by a new tragedy with the death of Robin Gibb following a long illness.