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“People often crack jokes about that album. We had that dreadful picture on the cover with the three of us looking like the Bee Gees, and I’m thinking, ‘This is wrong’”: Carl Palmer on the disastrous album that led ELP to break up

Keith Emerson called it “an embarrassment against everything I’ve worked for”

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Before Young Talent Time, Johnny Young was a songwriter who rivaled the best of his era

Johnny Young has died at 79 from pancreatic cancer, and Australian pop music has lost another of its multifaceted creatives of the ‘60s and '70s.

The Conversation

“They all got around in a circle around me and sang the vocal. It was riveting, all these voices that I’ve heard on the radio for all these years”: When Winger and Whitesnake guitarist Reb Beach played on an ’80s Bee Gees classic

In the mid '80s, Reb Beach was Atlantic's go-to rock guy, ripping solos for Chaka Khan, learning from Marcus Miller, and being serenaded by the brothers Gibb

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Did the Internet Really Just Kill Off Barry Gibb? Viral Death Hoax Sends Fans Into Panic

A viral death hoax falsely claimed Barry Gibb had died, causing widespread panic before being debunked. The incident highlights the rapid spread of misinformation in the digital age.

International Business Times UK

Ah, ah, ah, ah - I saved my dad’s life with a little help from The Office and the Bee Gees

When my father collapsed suddenly, an episode of the US comedy in which Steve Carell does CPR to the tune of Stayin’ Alive sprung miraculously to mind

The Guardian - UK

“We wrote it on the board as ‘The Loudest Riff Ever Recorded by a Human.’ We had to put the mic four feet away”: Corrosion Of Conformity pushed hard on their new album. And the Bee Gees helped

Pepper Keenan and Woody Weatherman explain how they’ve made the most of their latest lineup, the acoustic guitar that shook them up, and why messing with a Seymour Duncan will make them rich (they hope)

Guitar World

Terry Cox obituary

Drummer with Pentangle, the folk-rock group who found fame in the 1960s with their fusion of jazz, blues and traditional songs

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Grapefruit were tipped to be the next Beatles – what happened to the band once loved by John Lennon?

PLAYBACK: If John Lennon and Paul McCartney were to be believed, Grapefruit were poised to be the next big thing in music, with one member even invited to sing on ‘Hey Jude’. Neve Dawson revisits the four-piece band that time forgot

The Independent UK

“We wrote it in a farmyard in France. We’d never heard of ‘disco music’ at the time. We were singing about the state of the times, and the human condition”: How the Bee Gees channelled angst and despair to create the greatest dancefloor-filler of all time

Ah, ah, ah, ah...

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“In 1989 I paid a scalper $400 for a ticket to see The Who play Tommy. It was worth every cent”: Mike Portnoy on his top prog songs and artists, and why the Rolling Stones have the greatest-ever prog album sleeve

The Dream Theater drummer’s musical world includes Rush, Yes, King Crimson, Roger Waters and Frank Zappa – alongside the Bee Gees

Louder

Dua Lipa wins ‘Levitating’ copyright case with a little help from Ed Sheeran

Judge referenced Sheeran’s precedent-setting 2023 victory over his song ‘Thinking Out Loud’, which was accused of plagiarising a track by Marvin Gaye

The Independent UK

How a lone Bee Gee became the first person to use a drum machine on a pop hit

When it hit the chart in 1969, it was the first exposure the record buying public had to an electronic beat

MusicRadar

10 huge hits given away from one artist to another

From Prince to Joni Mitchell and Macca to the Bee Gees, the stars who were in such a creative purple patch that they had classics going spare and shopped them elsewhere.

Louder

Bee Gees star dies four days before the death of band's drummer Colin Petersen

The band’s original drummer, Colin ‘Smiley’ Petersen, died aged 78

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The Independent UK

Second Bee Gees drummer dies days after Colin Petersen

Dennis Bryon played with band between 1974 and 1980

The Independent UK

Strictly Come Dancing latest: Fans praise Craig Revel and Anton Du Beke’s Halloween week costumes

The annual Spooktacular is back and the remaining 11 pairs were hoping their dancing didn’t frighten the judges

The Independent UK

Why people are less likely to give CPR to women who collapse

Worries over touching women’s chests leads to anxiety around giving compressions, study says

Guitar World

“I played poker with Freddie King during one of the tours he did with Eric Clapton. I lost half my tour money!” Session legend George Terry on eating Whoppers with Diana Ross and high times as Eric Clapton’s go-to ’70s six-string lieutenant

George Terry looks back on a decade of hits with the Bee Gees, Barbra Streisand, ABBA, and Diana Ross, and his adventures and misadventures with Slowhand

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Ridley Scott to direct highly anticipated Bee Gees biopic film

Paramount Pictures is set to release a highly anticipated biopic on the iconic Bee Gees, potentially directed by Ridley Scott.

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Bee Gees producer Albhy Galuten on creating the first ever drum loop: "We found two bars in Night Fever that felt really good, copied it to tape, spliced it together and ran a huge loop over the mic stands and across the studio"

With 18 number one singles and 100,000,000 copies sold, Grammy-winning producer Albhy Galuten continues to operate at the cutting edge of music today

WEKU

Queen Latifah, Billy Crystal and others celebrated at Kennedy Center Honors

Billy Crystal, Dionne Warwick, Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees, Renée Fleming and Queen Latifah were given the star treatment as they received their Kennedy Center Honors.

The Guardian - UK

‘You’re only 75’: Billy Crystal receives Kennedy Center honor amid Biden age jokes

Crystal lauded alongside Dionne Warwick, Barry Gibb, Queen Latifah and Renée Fleming at annual ceremony

MusicRadar

“I am always able to come up with brand-new chords that no one has been stupid enough to sing over”: Page Hamilton on harmonic curiosity and the aggressive expansion of Helmet’s musical vocabulary

Hamilton discusses how drop tunings, NYC, fine art, Led Zep, the Bee Gees, Glenn Branca, jazz and soul all played their part in shaping Helmet's unique, uncompromising sound

Louder

“There are some good things on it… I just find it hard to believe we called a prog album Love Beach, and the three of us look like the Bee Gees. That’s a prog cover?” Carl Palmer on ELP’s most misguided moment

Drummer admits the trio had reached the end of their collective creativity and had actually split before making 1978 album that showed “America had got to us, obviously!”

The Guardian - UK

Barbra Streisand’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!

Ahead of her long-awaited, 992-page memoir being published next month, we pick the best of a singer who always radiates timeless star quality

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