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Bee Gees

Beatles-influenced popsters who reinvented themselves as disco superstars in the mid 1970s.

Biography

No popular music act of the '60s, '70s, '80s, or '90s experienced more ups and downs in popularity, or attracted a more varied audience across the decades, than the Bee Gees. Beginning in the mid- to late '60s as a Beatlesque ensemble, they quickly developed as songwriters in their own right and style, perfecting in the process a progressive pop sound all their own. Then, after hitting a trough in their popularity in the early '70s, on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack they reinvented themselves during the disco era as perhaps the most successful white soul act of all time. ~ Bruce Eder