Any retelling of the 1970s disco boom has to reckon with Disco Demolition Night, a shameful promotional event staged by Chicago shock-jock DJ Steve Dahl between games of a White Sox doubleheader on ...
On January 21, 1978, the soundtrack to the motion picture Saturday Night Fever hit the top spot on the Billboard charts and ...
Any retelling of the 1970s disco boom has to reckon with Disco Demolition Night, a shameful promotional event staged by Chicago shock-jock DJ Steve Dahl between games of a White Sox doubleheader on ...
From Barry Manilow's ballads to the chart-topping hits of the Bee Gees, what became of the disco decade’s most legendary pop hitmakers?
The Bee Gees released some of the most enduring songs of the 1970s; however, the band’s popularity decreased following a major backlash against disco. The Bee Gees’ Maurice Gibb said this backlash was ...
Firstly, some background. Listen to the Bee Gees’ early catalog, you’ll hear soft rock (“How Do You Mend a Broken Heart”) and Beatlesque baroque pop (“Lonely Days”) but not disco. According to The ...
As the story goes, Foo Fighters frontman and former Nirvana drummer, Dave Grohl, fell head over heels in love with the Australian-raised Gibb brothers after finally watching their 2020 documentary The ...
WHEN BARRY GIBB, the sole surviving member of the Bee Gees, performed at Glastonbury in 2017, he played in what is known as the “legends slot”. The veteran stars who take to the festival stage on a ...
The Bee Gees — brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb — became pop idols in the late 1960s and then mega stars in the 1970s. They sold 200 million records. Robin and Maurice were twins and Barry was ...
When the Bee Gees released their single “Jive Talkin’” in May 1975, it marked a major stylistic turning point in the band’s history. The brotherly trio had already enjoyed success. Between 1967 and ...
Her co-worker suddenly remembered reading that the rhythm of the tune, featured in the John Travolta disco drama 'Saturday Night Fever,' was perfect for CPR — 103 beats per minute. By The Associated ...