Public and media affection for the Gibbs’ craft quickly turned to ire as popular music experienced a turbulent sea change, and they became the embodiment of the broad rejection of “disco” and everything it represented. And, all fifty-three show dates on the exhaustive Spirits Having Flown Tour sold out completely.īut by 1980, their Midas touch became an unusually sharp double-edged sword. A new compilation rife with the stunning run of hits they’d amassed over the past four years, Bee Gees Greatest, had just climbed into the top five, on its way to becoming their second consecutive number one album in less than a year.
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The Gibbs finished out the ‘70s with both Spirits Having Flown and the Saturday Night Feversoundtrack still clinging to the Billboard album chart after 46 and 123 weeks on the list, respectively. The story of 1989’s One includes a decade of necessary context that essentially picks up where Spirits Having Flown leaves off.įew other artists have achieved in a lifetime what the Bee Gees amassed commercially and artistically in just 19 alone. In February, I penned a lengthy retrospective on the Bee Gees’ iconic Spirits Having Flown-the 1979 studio album that galvanized the Brothers Gibb as one of the world’s most successful bands.
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Happy 30th Anniversary to the Bee Gees’ eighteenth studio album One, originally released in the U.S.