{94} Timothy White, “Earthy Angels: How the Bee Gees Talk Dirty and Influence People,” Rolling Stone, May 17, 1979.
{95} Corrina Honan,”I Never Get Up Until Midday; Bee Gee Robin Gibb, 42, Currently Recording a New Album, Talks to Corrina Honan,” Daily Mail, February 2, 1992.
{96} Ibid.
{97} Ibid.
{98} Nick Logan, “All About the Ghostly Gibbs,” New Musical Express, January 13, 1968.
{99} Drummond, “Bee Gees May Give You ‘World’ Next!”
{100} Walsh, “Time to Bring Glamour Back to Pop.”
{101} “Bee Gees Banned from Britain.”
{102} Walsh, “Time to Bring Glamour Back to Pop.”
{103} Smith, “Meet a Bee Gee: Maurice Gibb.”
{104} Review of “World,” New Musical Express, November 18, 1967.
{105} Nick Jones, “Bee Gees: Who Needs Drugs to Make Music?” Melody Maker, December 16, 1967.
{106} “It’s the Song That Matters Now . . . Says Bee Gee Barry,” Melody Maker, January 13, 1968.
{107} Jones, “Bee Gees: Who Needs Drugs to Make Music?”
{108} “Bee Gees Have No Time to Be Frustrated.”
{109} Jim Miller, “Bee Gees Horizontal,” Rolling Stone, December 21, 1968.
{110} Nick Logan, “Bee Gees ‘Words’ Mystery,” New Musical Express, February 24, 1968.
{111} Logan, “All About the Ghostly Gibbs.”
{112} Richard Green, “Bee Gee Maurice Plays Up-Tempo Raver,” New Musical Express, June 21, 1969.
{113} Ibid.
{114} Logan, “Bee Gees ‘Words’ Mystery.”
{115} Jim Miller, “Bee Gees Horizontal” Rolling Stone, December 21, 1968.
{116} Lulu, I Don’t Want to Fight, 115.
{117} “It’s the Song That Matters Now.”
{118} Black, “The Rogue Gene.”
{119} Keith Altham, “Bee Gees Sitting Targets for the Cynics,” New Musical Express, May 4, 1968.
{120} Nick Logan, “Barry: ‘Important We Have Respect,’” New Musical Express, August 10, 1968.
{121} Keith Altham, “Big Night for the Bee Gees,” New Musical Express, April 6, 1968.
{122} Ibid.
{123} Altham, “The Bee Gees Sitting Targets for the Cynics.”
{124} “‘Offensive’ Bee Gees TV Play?” New Musical Express, April 6, 1968.
{125} Altham, “The Bee Gees Sitting Targets for the Cynics.”
{126} “Illness Wrecks Bee Gees Tour,” Melody Maker, August 3, 1968.
{127} Honan, “I Never Get Up Til Midday.”
{128} The Atlantic Recordings: Percy Sledge, Rhino Records, 2001.
{129} Andrew Sandoval, Bee Gees: The Day-By-Day Story, 1945–1972, (RetroFuture Day-By-Day Series, 2012), 110.
{130} Alexis Petridis, “The Bee Gee’s Odessa File,” Guardian, January 30, 2009.
{131} Altham, “The Bee Gees Sitting Targets for the Cynics.”
{132} Nick Logan, “I’ve Never Been 100 Per Cent a Bee Gee: Vince,” New Musical Express, November 2, 1968.
{133} Jan Nesbit, “I Want More Respect—Barry,” New Musical Express, December 7, 1968.
{134} Mark Paytress, “Stayin’ Alive,” Mojo. December 2010.
{135} Nick Logan, “Bee Gee Colin Happy to Be the Outsider,” New Musical Express, March 15, 1969.
{136} Nick Logan, “Barry Reveals Bee Gees’ Plans and Takes You Round His Penthouse Pad,” New Musical Express, October 12, 1968.
{137} Bob Dawbarn, “I’m Not Leaving—Yet,” Melody Maker, September 28, 1968.
{138} Ibid.
{139} “Bee Gee Barry Wants to Quit—But Commitments Until 1970,” New Musical Express, September 14, 1968.
{140} Logan, “Barry Reveals Bee Gees’ Plans.”
{141} Ibid.
{142} Paytress, “Stayin’ Alive.”
{143} Nesbit, “I Want More Respect.”
{144} Paytress, “Stayin’ Alive.”
{145} Logan, “Bee Gee Colin Happy to Be the Outsider.”
{146} Logan, “Barry Reveals Bee Gees’ Plans.”
{147} Ibid.
{148} Lulu, I Don’t Want to Fight, 122.
{149} Ibid.
{150} Ibid.
{151} Pye, Moguls, 260.
{152} Ibid., 246.
{153} Black, “The Rogue Gene.”
{154} Alan Smith, “My Wife Comes Second to Me,” New Musical Express, August 30, 1969.
{155} White, “This Is Where We Came In.”
{156} Paytress, “Stayin’ Alive.”
{157} Tatham, The Incredible Bee Gees, 49.
{158} Ben Sisario, “Robin Gibb, a Bee Gee with a Taciturn Manner, Dies at 62,” New York Times, May 20, 2012.
{159} Dawbarn, “I’m Not Leaving—Yet.”
{160} Smith, “My Wife Comes Second to Me.”
{161} Nick Logan, “Marriage Might End Bee Gees Feuding,” New Musical Express, March 1, 1969.
{162} Nick Logan, “The New Man Who Is Bee Gee Barry,” New Musical Express, February 15, 1969.
{163} Lulu, I Don’t Want to Fight, 12.
{164} Ibid, 133.
{165} Bruce Harris, “Please Read Me: A Definitive Analysis of the Bee Gees’ Lyrics,” Jazz & Pop, May 1971.
{166} Petridis, “The Bee Gee’s Odessa File.”
{167} Author interview, November 10, 2012.
{168} Don Short, “Barry Gibb Backs Out of Bee Gees’ First Film,” Daily Mirror, March 13, 1969.
{169} Don Short, “Robin Breaks the Silence with a No. 1 Sound,” Daily Mirror, May 3, 1969.
{170} Johnny Black, “The Bee Gees Discover Disco,” Q, April 2000.
{171} “Robin Gibb Unveils His Plans,” New Musical Express, May 10, 1969.
{172} Alan Walsh, “The Strange Saga of the Bee Gees,” Melody Maker, March 29, 1969.
{173} Nick Logan, “Barry Says Robin ‘Extremely Rude,’” New Musical Express, May 3, 1969.
{174} Ibid.
{175} Smith, “My Wife Comes Second to Me.”
{176} Geoffrey Wansell, “Tragedy for the Bee Gees,” Daily Mail, January 13, 2003.
{177} “Robin: Plans Not Settled,” Daily Express, April 24, 1969.
{178} Short, “Robin Breaks the Silence.”
{179} Richard Green, “Barry Plans Thank You Tour for Loyal Fans,” New Musical Express, October 4, 1969.
{180} “Robin Gibb Unveils His Plans,” New Musical Express, May 10, 1969.
{181} Logan, “Barry Says Robin ‘Extremely Rude.’”
{182} Green, “Bee Gee Maurice Plays Up-Tempo Raver.”
{183} Ibid.
{184} Nick Logan, “Happy Robin Not Gloating Over the Bee Gees Miss,” New Musical Express, July 19, 1969.
{185} Review of “Saved by the Bell,” New Musical Express, June 28, 1968.
{186} Ibid.
{187} Ibid.
{188} Author interview, October 2012.
{189} “Blind Date with Robin Gibb,” Melody Maker, August 16, 1969.
{190} Laurie Henshaw, “The Saga of the Bee Gees Continues,” Melody Maker, August 16, 1969.
{191} Laurie Henshaw, “Strange Case of the Sacked Drummer,” Melody Maker, September 6, 1969.
{192} “Colin Quits the Bee Gees,” New Musical Express, August 30, 1969.
{193} Richard Green, “Bee Gee Barry Censored Colin in an Effort to Stop Any More Bee Gees Feuding,” New Musical Express, September 13, 1969.
{194} Ibid.
{195} Green, “Barry Plans Thank You Tour.”
{196} Ibid.
{197} Nick Logan, “It’s My Duty to Appear Unreal, Says Robin Gibb,” New Musical Express, August 2, 1969.
{198} Dacre, “Off to the Sun.”
{199} David Wigg, “Ex–Bee Gees Answers ‘Ward of Court’ Threat,” Daily Express, September 5, 1969.
{200} Green, “Bee Gee Barry Censored Colin.”
{201} Ibid.
{202} “The ‘Pride’ of a Sacked Bee Gee,” Daily Mirror, September 25, 1969.
; {203} Royston Eldridge, “Out of the Whole Mess Comes the New True Bee Gees Says Barry,” Melody Maker, October 4, 1969.
{204} Green, “Barry Plans Thank You Tour.”
{205} Smith, “My Wife Comes Second to Me.”
{206} Nick Logan, “Bee Gees Laugh Off Those Split Rumours,” New Musical Express, August 24, 1968.
{207} David Wigg, “Bee Gee Barry Quits,” Daily Express, December 2, 1969.
{208} Judith Simons, “The Millionaire Proud to Be Living in Lulu’s Shadow,” Daily Express, February 19, 1970.
{209} David Wigg, “Ex-Bee Gee Barry Says: I’m Quitting Britain,” Daily Express, January 21, 1970.
{210} Jeremy Gilbert, “Robin at Christmas,” Melody Maker, December 29, 1969.
{211} “Robin Forgets Quality,” New Musical Express, January 17, 1970.
{212} Don Short, “Bee Gee Booster!” Daily Mirror, September 5, 1970.
{213} Ibid.
{214} “The Bee Gees Back Together,” New Musical Express, November 14, 1970.
{215} “Bee Gees Re-form,” Melody Maker, August 29, 1970.
{216} Short, “Bee Gee Booster!”
{217} Chris Charlesworth, “The Bee Gees’ Lonely Days,” Melody Maker, November 14, 1970.
{218} Ibid.
{219} White, “Earthy Angels.”
{220} Robin Eggar, “The Bee Gees Keep on Bouncing Back,” Advertiser, October 17, 1987.
{221} Mitchell Glazer, “The Rise and Fall of the Brothers Gibb,” Playboy, August 1978.
{222} William Leith, “Saturday Night, Sunday Morning,” Independent, July 18, 1993.
{223} Dacre, “Off to the Sun.”
{224} Leith, “Saturday Night, Sunday Morning.”
{225} Dacre, “Off to the Sun.”
{226} Harvey Kubernik, “How The Bee Gees Captured America,” Melody Maker, January 21, 1978.
{227} Eggar, “The Bee Gees Keep on Bouncing Back.”
{228} Glazer, “The Rise and Fall of the Brothers Gibb.”
{229} Kubernik, “How the Bee Gees Captured America.”
{230} Pye, Moguls, 246.
{231} Brennan, Gibb Songs, http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/
beegees/63.html.
{232} Lulu, I Don’t Want to Fight, 157.
{233} Ibid, 160.
{234} Ibid, 162.
{235} Fred Bronson, The Billboard Book of Number One Hits (New York: Billboard Books, 1997).
{236} Black, “The Bee Gees Discover Disco.”
{237} Richard Harrington, “Grammy Granddaddy: Arif Mardin, Norah Jones’s Hall-of-Fame Producer, Was Winning Them Before She Was Born,” Washington Post, February 23, 2003.
{238} Ibid.
{239} Ibid.
{240} Kubrnik, “How the Bee Gees Captured America.”
{241} Ibid.
{242} White, “Earthy Angels.”
{243} “Right Hook Was a Lulu,” Daily Mirror, February 13, 1979.
{244} Glazer, “The Rise and Fall of the Brothers Gibb.”
{245} Black, “The Bee Gees Discover Disco.”
{246} Glazer, “The Rise and Fall of the Brothers Gibb.”
{247} Black, “The Bee Gees Discover Disco.”
{248} Rose, “How Do You Mend a Broken Group?”
{249} Black, “The Bee Gees Discover Disco.”
{250} White, “Earthy Angels.”
{251} Kubernik, “How the Bee Gees Captured America.”
{252} Black, “The Bee Gees Discover Disco.”
{253} Ibid.
{254} White, “Earthy Angels.”
{255} Adam Bernstein, “Record Producer Arif Mardin: Won 11 Grammy Awards,” Washington Post, June 27, 2006.
{256} White, “Earthy Angels.”
{257} Bill Altman, “Bee Gees Banquet: Some Funk in the Syrup,” Rolling Stone, September 11, 1975.
{258} Tom Doyle, “Arif Mardin: Producer,” Sound on Sound, July 2004.
{259} Glazer, “The Rise and Fall of the Brothers Gibb.”
{260} Ibid.
{261} Bruce Elder, “Stayin’ Alive,” Sydney Morning Herald, March 20, 1999.
{262} Black, “The Bee Gees Discover Disco.”
{263} Rose, “How Do You Mend a Broken Group?”
{264} Black, “The Bee Gees Discover Disco.”
{265} Ibid.
{266} Ibid.
{267} Altman, “Bee Gees Banquet.”
{268} Tatham, The Incredible Bee Gees, 84–85.
{269} Stephen Holden, Review of Main Course, Rolling Stone, July 17, 1975.
{270} Baratta, “The Bee Gees Straight Talkin’.”
{271} Anonymous author interview.
{272} Author interview, May 2012.
{273} Anonymous author interview.
{274} Kubernik, “How the Bee Gees Captured America.”
{275} Joe McEwen, review of Children of the World, Rolling Stone, November 4, 1976.
{276} Chris Charlesworth, “Nights on Broadway,” Melody Maker, December 4, 1976.
{277} Rose, “How Do You Mend a Broken Group?”
{278} White, “This Is Where We Came In.”
{279} Altman, “Bee Gees Banquet.”
{280} Glazer, “The Rise and Fall of the Brothers Gibb,” Playboy.
{281} Charlesworth, “Nights on Broadway,” Melody Maker.
{282} Glazer, “The Rise and Fall of the Brothers Gibb.”
{283} Ben Fong-Torres, “‘Saturday Night’ Bumps ‘Rumours,’” Rolling Stone, March 9, 1978.
{284} Paul Grein, “‘Fever Sells at White Hot Pace Setting New Record,” Billboard, April 22, 1978.
{285} Sam Kashner, “Fever Pitch: How Travolta and the Bee Gees Shook the Night,” W, December 2007.
{286} Brother Cleve to author, July 2012.
{287} Jack Egan, “Cashing in on the Boogie to the Tune of $5 Billion; Disco” Washington Post, June 26, 1978.
{288} Sara Stosic, “Marketing the Illusion of Inclusive Exclusivity: How Communications/Public Relations Play a Key Role in Creating and Sustaining Vibrant Venues in the New York Nightlife Industry,” thesis, New York University, 14.
{289} Dave Marsh, “American Grandstand: Saturday Night Fever,” Rolling Stone, June 1, 1978.
{290} Lisa Robinson, “Boogie Nights: An Oral History of Disco,” Vanity Fair, February 2010.
{291} Leslie Bennetts, “An ‘In’ Crowd and Outside Mob Show Up for Studio 54’s Birthday,” New York Times, April 28, 1978.
{292} Stosic, “Marketing the Illusion of Inclusive Exclusivity,” 13.
{293} Ibid.
{294} Nik Cohn, “Fever Pitch,” Guardian, September 17, 1994.
{295} Ibid.
{296} Craig Rosen, The Billboard Book of Number One Albums (New York: Billboard Books, 1996).
{297} Anthony Haden-Guest, The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, and the Culture of the Night (New York: William Morrow, 1997), xxv–xxvi.
{298} Haden-Guest, The Last Party; White, “Earthy Angels.”
{299} Richard Buskin, “Classic Tracks; The Bee Gees Stayin’ Alive,” Sound on Sound, August 2005.
{300} Ibid.
{301} White, “Earthy Angels.”
{302} Ibid.
{303} Albhy Galuten to author, May 2012.
{304} John Swenson, “The Bee Gees’ Record Setters,” Rolling Stone, September 21, 1978.
{305} Matt Blackett, “Alan Kendall on Playing with the Bee Gees,” Guitar Player, July 2009.
{306} Ken Sharp, “In One of His Last Extensive Interviews, Bee Gees’ Maurice Gibb on the Group’s Long Career,” Goldmine, September 3, 2004.
{307} Buskin, “Classic Tracks.”
{308} Glazer, “The Rise and Fall of the Brothers Gibb.”
{309} Stan Soocher, “Can the Bee Gees Stay on Top?” Circus, March 13, 1979.
{310} Buskin, “Classic Tracks.”
{311} Ibid.
{312} Ibid.
{313} Larry Pryce, The Bee Gees (London: Granada, 1979), 54.
{314} Ibid.
&nbs
p; {315} Buskin, “Classic Tracks.”
{316} Rose, “How Can You Mend a Broken Group?”
{317} Anonymous author interview.
{318} Soocher, “Can the Bee Gees Stay on Top?”
{319} Albhy Galuten to author, May 2012.
{320} Ibid.
{321} Ibid.
{322} Swenson, “The Bee Gees’ Record Setters.”
{323} Pryce, The Bee Gees, 87.
{324} Buskin, “Classic Tracks.”
{325} Kashner, “Fever Pitch.”
{326} Robinson, “Boogie Nights.”
{327} Ibid.
{328} Paul Sexton, “Q&A with Robert Stigwood,” Billboard, March 24, 2001.
{329} Robinson, “Boogie Nights.”
{330} Fong-Torres, “‘Saturday Night’ Bumps ‘Rumours.’”
{331} Gibb, Bee Gees: The Authorized Biography, 110.
{332} Fong-Torres, “‘Saturday Night’ Bumps ‘Rumours.’”
{333} “Billboard Salutes the Bee Gees.”
{334} Fong-Torres, “‘Saturday Night’ Bumps ‘Rumours.’”
{335} Rosen, The Billboard Book of Number One Albums.
{336} Charlesworth, “Nights on Broadway.”
{337} “Billboard Salutes the Bee Gees.”
{338} Swenson, “The Bee Gees’ Record Setters.”
{339} Ibid.
{340} Ibid.
{341} Ibid.
{342} Ibid.
{343} Buskin, “Classic Tracks.”
{344} Ibid.
{345} Ibid.
{346} Albhy Galuten to author, May 2012.
{347} Buskin, “Classic Tracks.”
{348} Albhy Galuten to author, May 2012.
{349} Mark Small, “Albhy Galuten ’68,” On the Watchtower, Summer 2002.
{350} Albhy Galuten to author, May 2012.
{351} White, “Earthy Angels.”
{352} Buskin, “Classic Tracks.”
{353} Small, “Albhy Galuten.”
{354} Bronson, The Billboard Book of Number One Hits.
{355} Buskin, “Classic Tracks.”
{356} Swenson, “The Bee Gees’ Record Setters.”
{357} “Movies: Kid from ‘Kotter’ Leaps Out of Pack and Into Disco Film,” New York Times, February 18, 1977.
{358} Grein, “‘Fever Sells at White Hot Pace.”
{359} Merrill Shindler, “The Tavares Family: Up from Doo-Wop,” Rolling Stone, July 28, 1977.
{360} David Wild, “The Bee Gees,” Rolling Stone, May 29, 1997.
{361} Haden-Guest, The Last Party, 79–80.
{362} Simon Yeamon, “Bee Gees’ Party of Life and Death,” Advertiser, April 6, 1998.
{363} Jamel Clayton Miller, Legends: Bee Gees, VH1 (1999) transcription (2002).
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