How the Bee Gees defined the disco era

Spearheading the new sound was Barry Gibb, who, for the first time, sang
falsetto and discovered that he could delight audiences in that register.

Jive Talkin’, the first single off the album, became their second American
number one single, and was followed up with Nights on Broadway and then the
album Children of the World, which yielded the hits You Should Be Dancing
and Love So Right.

Recorded in Miami, it put the Bee Gees at the forefront of the disco movement,
which their work on the sound track album of the film Saturday Night Fever
(1977) would popularise and define.

The trio’s contributions to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack album pushed
sales past the 40 million mark. It also reigned as the top-selling album in
history until Michael Jackson’s “Thriller – an album that Jackson
acknowledged was inspired by Saturday Night Fever – surpassed it in the
1980s.

Saturday Night Fever and 1979’s Spirits Having Flown combined to yield six
number one hits, making the Bee Gees the only group in pop history to write,
produce and record that many consecutive chart-topping singles.

In 1997 the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and this led
to a resurgence of interest, which heralded the release of the live album “One
Night Only” (1998), cut at their first American concert in almost a
decade.

Their success was not limited to recordings issued under their own name.
Individually and together they’ve written and produced major hits for
artists including Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Dolly Parton and Kenny
Rogers, as well as Frankie Valli.

The Bee Gees remained active until the death of Maurice in January 2003, from
cardiac arrest during surgery. Following his death, Robin and Barry decided
to cease performing as the Bee Gees.

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