An Unofficial Look at The Bee Gees Including the Members, Studio and Live Albums, and Top Singles Reviews
An Unofficial Look at The Bee Gees Including the Members, Studio and Live Albums, and Top Singles
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Go behind the scenes of American band, The Bee Gees. Read about the Members including Barry, Robin, and the late Maurice Gibb. The book also focuses on the studio and live albums as well as top singles including Stayin’ Alive, Night Fever, Tragedy, Too Much Heaven, and more.
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This is one strange book. It is both detailed and impossibly omissive. It is obvious from the first page that all the material is taken from Wikipedia and going directly to the `Article Sources and Contributors’, it is proven true. Initially it looks like a good summary of the Bee Gees career. There is a general overview of the Bee Gees history which is directly from Wikipedia (which is not always a perfect source of information). The band members are given their own biography (Colin Peterson and Vince Melouney included), but it is limited to only the band members from 1967 through 1969! There are no biographies of the later band members (other than in song and album credits). These were the artists during the second wave of success from 1975-1980 with Blue Weaver, Dennis Bryon and Alan Kendall. It isn’t even mentioned that Alan Kendall had been the lead guitarist since 1971 until you dig around. And since 1980 there is no mention of any such band members at all other than in the credits. These are the session musicians that worked with the Bee Gees since the `ESP’ album of 1987 to present who deserve a decent nod as well.
The discography is nice showing the highest ranking of albums in the USA and UK, as is the world-wide single charts positions by country. There is also a fairly good overview of each of the albums with specific details and the Bee Gees most successful songs. But there is one big omission that left me pole-axed. Under the Bee Gees Discography, the studio and live albums are charted showing the Year, Chart Positions and Sales numbers. But the column for the title of the album is completely blank! It is simply blank! You have to guess which album it might be by the year. This is obviously a huge oversight and one that really hurts the book’s validity. And did ‘Mr. Natural’ peak at #198 or #178? This is what you get from Wikipedia. If you want the real stories straight from people who worked and met the Bee Gees, you should read The Bee Gees: Tales of the Brothers Gibb. If you want some verified copy written information on albums and songs, GOOGLE “GibbSongs” by Joe Brennan. By the way, I returned my book.
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