10/28/2022 0 Comments Bee geeboard![]() ![]() ![]() It wouldn’t be like interviewing Noam Chomsky or anything. I knew the group’s recordings and life story since the 1960s, so I figured I could carry off the interviews without a lot of trouble. #BEE GEEBOARD MOVIE#Like seemingly everyone else in America, I’d seen the Travolta movie but, unlike many others, hated disco (yes, I’d made the pilgrimage to Studio 54, once), even though the Bee Gees’ version of it was not half-bad. They were riding the crest of the mega-selling Saturday Night Live soundtrack - perhaps the biggest-selling album ever - and hit singles “Stayin’ Alive,” “Night Fever,” and “How Deep Is Your Love.” ![]() Soon I would return to Crawdaddy full-time but for now, in June 1978, they needed someone to write a quickie cover story on the hottest group of the moment - maybe of the decade - The Bee Gees. With a surprising number of people (myself included) watching and enjoying the new Bee Gees documentary airing this month over HBO, I thought I would depart from my usual obsessions to take a lighter look back at my encounter with the group - at the height of their “Stayin’ Alive” popularity back in 1978….Īfter serving as the number two editor at the legendary rock/culture magazine Crawdaddy starting in early 1971, I had left in the summer of 1977 to work at another New York-based publication(which failed), and then turned to freelancing for my old home, among other outlets. ![]()
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