Sanctuary (Church), Hell’s Kitchen, 141
Sand, George, 148
“Saturday Night,” 156–157
Saturday Night Fever (Bee Gees music)
as collaborative work, 150–164
See also specific individuals; specific music
Saturday Night Fever (film)
reception, 137, 202–203
“Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night” (article by
Nik Cohn), 144–147
See also specific individuals
Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack), 136, 137, 138, 168–175, 176, 195–196, 201, 215–216
Saturday Night Fever (stage production), 287–288,
289–290
“Saved by the Bell,” 94–96, 106,
287
Saville Theatre, London, 39, 53, 66
Schrager, Ian, 142–143
Schultz, Michael, 183, 188, 192
Sedaka, Neil, 236, 245
Seeger, Bob, 130, 131
Seekers/New Seekers, 30, 34, 84
Sellers, Peter, 294
Serpico (film), 146
“Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” 192–194
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Beatles album), 182,
193
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (film)
costs, 191
description/making, 185–186, 188–194, 195–196
final scene participants, 191–194
pre-production, 181–185
reception/reviews, 198–200, 201, 216
soundtrack/album, 186–188, 194–195, 197–200
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (musical), 180–181
“Shadow Dancing,” 177, 250, 251, 253
Shadow Dancing (Andy Gibb), 249–250, 252
Shepherd, Bill, 23–24, 38, 71
Shire, David, 137, 169
Simon, Carly, 120, 131
Simon, Paul, 35
Sing Slowly Sisters (Robin Gibb), 107–108
Skaggs, Ricky, 317
Skinheads, 233
Sledge, Percy, 69
Sly Stone, 129, 142
Smile (Beach Boys), 88
Smith, Rex, 260
Smothers Brothers Show, The (TV show), 61
Soho, 142
Solid Gold (TV show), 227–228, 258, 262, 264
“Songbird,” 131
Soocher, Stan, 216, 251
“Soul Makosa,” 142, 171
Soul Train (TV show), 170
“South Dakota Morning,” 119
South, Joe, 93
Spector, Phil, 121
Speight, Johnny, 66
Spencely, Yvonne/Maurice
children (Adam/Samantha), 123, 315
Maurice pulling gun on family, 295
meeting/marriage, 122, 123, 218, 295, 296, 300
“Spicks and Specks,” 24, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 179
Spin label, 24, 29, 31
“Spirits (Having Flown),” 37, 204
Spirits Having Flown (Bee Gees), 204–205, 211, 212, 213–214, 217, 257
Spirits tour (1979), 217–223, 275
Springfield, Dusty, 42, 120
Springsteen, Bruce, 256
Spy Who Loved Me, The (film), 203
SS Fairsky, 28, 31
Star Wars music, 203
Stardust: The David Bowie Story (Edwards), 180
“Starlight of Love,” 18
Starr, Ringo, 6, 11, 120, 184, 294
“Stayin’ Alive,” 2, 135, 136, 149, 151, 152–154, 156–157, 158, 160–162, 163, 164–165, 166, 168, 173–174, 251, 316
Stern, Howard/radio show, 306
Steve and the Board, 31
Stevens, Cat, 105, 148
Stevens, Ray, 238
Stewart, Rod, 132, 212, 294
Stigwood, Robert
Andy Gibb and, 239, 240, 247, 250–251, 252, 264
background/other work, 25, 26, 27, 65, 66, 110, 120, 205, 206
Beatles and, 28, 178, 180, 181–182
Stigwood, Robert (continued)
Bee Gees and, 5, 7, 21, 33, 34, 36–38, 39, 40–41, 45, 53, 56, 60, 64, 66–68, 70, 71, 73, 75, 78–79, 111, 114, 118, 124, 127, 179, 210, 216–217, 264, 279
Bee Gees lawsuit against, 35, 275–279
description, 5, 27, 35, 64, 75, 118, 277
leaving music business, 268, 279
NEMS and, 27, 28, 33
Robin and, 77, 78–79, 85, 86, 89, 90, 91–92, 100
Saturday Night Fever (music/
film), 144–145, 146–147, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 165, 166, 167, 169, 174, 175
Sgt. Pepper’s movie/soundtrack, 180–184, 185, 186, 188, 189, 191–192, 198–200, 201
Sgt. Pepper’s musical, 180, 181
Shaw and, 27, 40, 46, 47
See also RSO
Still Waters (Bee Gees), 285–286
“Still Waters (Run Deep),” 285
“Stop (Think Again),” 205
Stosic, Sara, 142–143
Strawberry Studios, 148
Streisand, Barbra, 120, 165, 184, 218, 222, 279–280, 282, 306
Studio 54, 141, 142–144
Stutter songs, 130
“Such a Shame,” 70
“Suddenly,” 83–84
Sullivan, Dan, 260
Summer, Donna, 212, 214
Surfer’s Paradise, Beachcomber Hotel, Brisbane, 18
“Swan Song,” 78
Sweet, 148
Sweet Inspirations, 219
Swing Kids, 138–139
Sydney Stadium, 22
T-Rex, 148
Tales from the Brothers Gibb: A History in Song, 284
Talk of the Town (BBC show), 90
Tapestry (King), 137
Tarantino, Quentin, 65
Tavares, 136, 137, 170, 175
Tea for the Tillerman (Stevens), 105
Teen Beat magazine, 244
“Telstar,” 25
Terry, George, 204
Thillainayagam, Andrew, 310–311
This Is Where I Came In (Bee Gees), 290–291
“This Woman,” 281
Thriller (Jackson), 282
“Time Has Come Today,” 141
“Time Is Time,” 257–258
Titanic Requiem, The (Robin/
Robin-John Gibb), 307, 308, 309–310
“To a Girl,” 237
To Kill a Mockingbird (film), 168
“To Love Somebody,” 2, 8, 41–42, 43–44, 45, 55, 69, 317
Tommy (album/musical/movie), 70, 181, 182–183
“Tomorrow, Tomorrow,” 93, 94
Tonight Show (TV show), 133
“Too Much Heaven,” 177, 207–208, 210–211, 213, 221
Top of the Pops (TV show), 39, 48, 56, 62, 63, 90, 98, 243
Tork, Peter, 63
Tornadoes, 25, 49
Townshend, Pete, 144, 293
“Trafalgar,” 117–118
Trafalgar (Bee Gees), 117–118
Traffic, 60
“Tragedy,” 177, 208, 213–214, 220, 221, 224
Train crash, 51–53
Trammps, 137, 170–171
Travolta, John, 147, 157, 165–167, 168, 175, 205, 222, 289
“Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night” (article by Nik Cohn), 144–147
TUE record station, Sydney, 23
“Turn of the Century,” 44
“Turtle Dove,” 13
Twain, Mark, 251–252
Twist, 140
“Twist and Shout,” 2, 140
Tyler, Steven, 190, 191
UNICEF, 211–212
US Magazine, 259
Valli, Frankie, 205
Van Gogh, 148
Vettese, Peter-John, 290
Vidal, Gore, 277
“Voice in the Wilderness,” 290
Voorman, Klaus, 43
W magazine, 138
Wade, Mike, 76
Wagner, Peter, 202
“Wake Up Little Susie,” 14, 15
Walker Brothers, 31,
95–96
Walker, Scott, 104–105
“Walking on Air,” 290
Walley Range Odeon, 16
Walsh, Joe, 241
Warhol, Andy, 64
“Warm Ride,” 256
Warwick, Dionne, 227, 281
Washington, Grover, 171
Washington Post (newspaper), 215
Weaver, Blue
Bee Gees/music and, 123, 126–127, 219, 220
Saturday Night Fever, 149, 150–151, 152, 153, 154, 159, 160, 163, 165
Weber, Andrew Lloyd, 266
Wee Johnnie Hayes and the Bluecats, 16
“Weight, The,” 83
“Westfield Mansions,” 237
Wexler, Jerry, 120–121
Wexler, Norman, 146
Wheels of Fire (Cream), 70
“When the Roses Bloom Again,” 317
“Where Is the Love,” 171
Whisky à Go-Go, Le, 139–140
White Album (Beatles), 70, 76, 80
White, Dennis, 197
White, Jack, 254
White, Maurice, 213
White, Timothy, 178
White, Tony Jo, 93
Who, 26, 70, 130, 144, 145
“Whole Lotta Love,” 254
Williams, John, 203
Wilson, Brian, 4, 88, 105
Wilson, Murry, 4
“Wind of Change,” 124, 128, 131
“Wine and Women,” 22, 29
“Wish You Were Here,” 283
Wishbone Ash, 132
Withers, Bill, 171
“Woman in Love,” 165, 279
Woodstock (event/movie/soundtrack album), 137
“Words,” 58, 61, 64, 179, 253
“Words and Music,” 237
“World,” 53, 54–55, 56
Wright, Sam, 289
Yang, Claire/Snow Robin, 307, 312
“You Light Up My Life,” 203
“You Should Be Dancing,” 132, 133, 157, 160, 163, 164, 165–166, 215, 221, 315
“You Win Again,” 283
“You’ll Never See My Face Again,” 82
Young, Angus, 204
Young, Neil, 83
Young Rascals, 120
“You’re the One,” 129
Zappa, Frank, 302
Zenta, 238
Zylberberg, Régine, 140
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{1} Beth Neil, “We Were Young Tearaways,” Mirror, November 4, 2009.
{2} Oliver Bennett, “Fever Pitch,” Times, February 15, 1997.
{3} Judith Whelan, “Still Staying Alive,” Sydney Morning Herald, February 18, 1997.
{4} Chris Buckland, “Oh Boys! How Mr. and Mrs. Bee Gee Helped to Make Their Sons Shine,” Daily Mirror, April 17, 1979.
{5} Neil, “We Were Young Tearaways.”
{6} Paul Baratta, “The Bee Gees Straight Talkin’,” Songwriter, February 1978.
{7} Paul Dacre, “Off to the Sun—The Family Gibb,” Daily Express, April 19, 1979.
{8} Nick Logan, “Meet a Bee Gee: Robin Gibb,” New Musical Express, December 2, 1967.
{9} Ibid.
{10} Ibid.
{11} Ibid.
{12} Neil, “We Were Young Tearaways.”
{13} Dacre, “Off to the Sun.”
{14} Kerry McGlynn and Liane Maxfield, “No Looking Back for the Bee Gees,” Australian Women’s Weekly, June 14, 1967.
{15} “Early TV Start for Three Boys,” Australian Women’s Weekly, June 29, 1960.
{16} Frank Rose, “How Can You Mend a Broken Group? The Bee Gees Did It with Disco,” Rolling Stone, July 14, 1977.
{17} “Early TV Start for Three Boys,” Australian Women’s Weekly.
{18} Logan, “Meet a Bee Gee: Robin Gibb.”
{19} “Early TV Start for Three Boys,” Australian Women’s Weekly.
{20} Ibid.
{21} Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb, Bee Gees: The Authorized Biography, as told to David Leaf (New York: Pinnacle Books, 1980), 25.
{22} Rose, “How Can You Mend a Broken Group?”
{23} Greg Mitchell, “The Act You’ve Known for All These Years,” Crawdaddy, August 1978.
{24} Timothy White, “This Is Where We Came In,” Billboard, March 24, 2001.
{25} “Billboard Salutes the Bee Gees,” Billboard, September 2, 1978.
{26} White, “This Is Where We Came In.”
{27} “Stayin’ Alive and Coming Back for Some More,” Sunday Times, December 30, 2001.
{28} Robin Eggar, “Bee Gees,” Courier-Mail, October 3, 1987.
{29} Bruce Elder, “Stayin’ Alive,” Sydney Morning Herald, March 20, 1999.
{30} Logan, “Meet a Bee Gee: Robin Gibb.”
{31} Joseph Brennan, Gibb Songs, http://www.columbia.edu/
~brennan/beegees/63.html.
{32} Baratta, “The Bee Gees Straight Talkin’.”
{33} Campbell Reid, “They Said We’d Never Make It,” Advertiser, November 9, 1989.
{34} Michael Pye, Moguls: Inside the Business of Show Business (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1990), 234–35.
{35} David Ansen, Janet Huck, Kartine Ames, and Susan Agrest, “Rock Tycoon,” Newsweek, July 31, 1978.
{36} Pye, Moguls, 239.
{37} Ibid.
{38} Peter Brown and Steven Gaines, The Love You Make: An Insider’s Story of the Beatles (New York: New American Library, 1983), 217–18.
{39} The Beatles, The Beatles Anthology (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2000), 268.
{40} Rose, “How Do You Mend a Broken Group?”
{41} Ibid.
{42} Buckland, “Oh Boys!”
{43} Baratta, “The Bee Gees Straight Talkin’.”
{44} Alan Smith, “Meet a Bee Gee: Barry Gibb,” New Musical Express, November 25, 1967.
{45} Logan, “Meet a Bee Gee: Robin Gibb.”
{46} Baratta, “The Bee Gees Straight Talkin’.”
{47} White, “This Is Where We Came In.”
{48} Johnny Black, “The Rogue Gene,” Mojo, April 2001.
{49} White, “This Is Where We Came In.”
{50} Norrie Drummond, “The Bee Gees May Give You ‘World’ Next!” New Musical Express, October 14, 1967.
{51} Baratta, “The Bee Gees Straight Talkin’.”
{52} Brennan, Gibb Songs, http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/
beegees/63.html.
{53} Paul Gambaccini, “A Conversation with Paul McCartney,” Rolling Stone, July 12, 1979.
{54} Dick Tatham, The Incredible Bee Gees: Barry, Robin and Maurice—The Full Inside Story
of Their Golden Success (London: Futura, 1979), 21.
{55} Black, “The Rogue Gene.”
{56} Alan Smith, “Meet a Bee Gee: Maurice Gibb,” New Musical Express, December 16, 1967.
{57} Black, “The Rogue Gene.”
{58} Brennan, Gibb Songs, http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/
beegees/63.html.
{59} Black, “The Rogue Gene.”
{60} Brown, The Love You Make, 222.
{61} Nick Logan, “Meet a Bee Gee: Vince Melouney,” New Musical Express, December 9, 1967.
{62} White, “This Is Where We Came In.”
{63} “The Bee Gees Have No Time to Be Frustrated,” Melody Maker, September 23, 1967.
{64} Richard Goldstein, “The Children of Rock Belt the Blues,” New York Times, July 30, 1967.
{65} Norrie Drummond, “Bee Gees Happened Everywhere—But Here!” New Musical Express, September 30, 1967.
{66} “Bee Gees—Five Australians with a Bright Future,” Melody Maker, May 27, 1967.
{67} Review of “New York Mining Disaster 1941,” New Musical Express, April 15, 1967.
{68} Review of “New York Mining Disaster.”
{69} “The Bee Gees Have No Time to Be Frustrated.”
{70} Ibid.
{71} Lulu, I Don’t Want to Fight (New York: Time Warner, 2002),
112–13.
{72} Brown The Love You Make, 240–41.
{73} “Bee Gees Banned from Britain,” Melody Maker, October 14, 1967.
{74} Drummond, “The Bee Gees Happened Everywhere.”
{75} Ibid.
{76} “Stigwood and NEMS Enterprises Split,” Melody Maker, November 4, 1967.
{77} “Bee Gees No. 1 Hit Started as a Send-Up,” Melody Maker, November 4, 1967.
{78} Drummond, “The Bee Gees Happened Everywhere.”
{79} Black, “The Rogue Gene.”
{80} Ibid.
{81} Brown The Love You Make, 251–52.
{82} Beatles, The Beatles Anthology, 268.
{83} “Stigwood and NEMS Enterprises Split.”
{84} Ibid.
{85} Drummond, “Bee Gees May Give You ‘World’ Next!”
{86} Ibid.
{87} Logan, “Meet a Bee Gee: Robin Gibb.”
{88} Alan Walsh, “Time to Bring Glamour Back to Pop,” Melody Maker, October 21, 1967.
{89} “Bee Gees No. 1 Hit Started as a Send-Up.”
{90} Drummond, “Bee Gees May Give You ‘World’ Next!”
{91} Logan, “Meet a Bee Gee: Robin Gibb.”
{92} Walsh, “Time to Bring Glamour Back to Pop.”
{93} Ritchie York, “Keith Richard on Mick, Beatles, Led, Faith, Tull, Gees,” New Musical Express, December 6, 1969.
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