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How The Bee Gees Succeeded In Spite Of Themselves
A new book on the Brothers Gibb traces how they did so much wrong and still succeeded despite themselves.
"[The group] went “from third-rate variety club act to multinational operatives,” crisscrossing America in a private jet and racking up six consecutive number one singles, something only the Beatles had done before.
And all this despite having close brushes with death. (Barry was scalded so badly as a child that doctors thought he might not live; Robin and his wife survived both a train wreck in which 53 people died and an avalanche.)
Their looks were lampooned, especially in their disco phase; they looked toothy and insincere in photos, and the chest hair and medallions didn’t help. They had the usual drug problems, and they quarreled and broke up and reunited. Their lyrics were often obscure: At one point Barry said, “Don’t look for meaning in the lyrics — there isn’t any.”
How The Bee Gees Succeeded In Spite Of Themselves
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And now there's a new wrinkle - a possible big screen Bee Gees biopic which Ridley Scott may be directing.
Turns out Scott has a link to the group via their one-time manager, Robert Stigwood.
"Stigwood would put Scott on the medieval film Castle Accident that would star the band’s three brothers Barry, Robin and Maurice. Ultimately the film never came together (Scott would go on to direct The Duelist instead), but that desire to tell some sort of story with the group remained, and now nearly 50 years later Scott has that chance."
Whether this ever actually gets made or not is uncertain but one thing is for sure - it would have an amazing soundtrack.
Ridley Scott To Direct Paramount’s Bee Gees Movie From GK Films
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