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{364} Rose, “How Can You Mend a Broken Group?”
{365} White, “This Is Where We Came In,” Billboard.
{366} Glazer, “The Rise and Fall of the Brothers Gibb.”
{367} Goldstein, “The Children of Rock Belt the Blues.”
{368} Glazer, “The Rise and Fall of the Brothers Gibb.”
{369} Gibb, Bee Gees: The Authorized Biography, 112.
{370} Robert Christgau, Dean of American Rock Critics, http://www.
robertchristgau.com/xg/music/rocktheater.php.
{371} Henry Edwards, “Inventing a Plot for ‘Sgt. Pepper,’” New York Times, July 16, 1978.
{372} Ed Zukerman, “Sgt. Pepper’s Taught the Band to Play and Stigwood’s Gonna Make It Pay,” Rolling Stone, April 20, 1978.
{373} Ibid.
{374} Ibid.
{375} Cameron Crowe, “The One and Only Peter Frampton,” Rolling Stone, February 10, 1977.
{376} Edwards, “Inventing a Plot for ‘Sgt. Pepper.’”
{377} Stephen Demorest, “The Bee Gees Are Back and They’re Having a Ball,” New York Times, November 28, 1976.
{378} Crowe, “The One and Only Peter Frampton.”
{379} Zukerman, “Sgt. Pepper’s Taught the Band to Play.”
{380} “Billboard Salutes the Bee Gees.”
{381} White, “Earthy Angels.”
{382} Zukerman, “Sgt. Pepper’s Taught the Band to Play.”
{383} White, “Earthy Angels.”
{384} Ibid.
{385} Paul Grein, “A Day in the Life of Dee Anthony,” Billboard, November 26, 1977.
{386} “Billboard Salutes the Bee Gees.”
{387} Ibid.
{388} White, “Earthy Angels.”
{389} Gibb, Bee Gees: The Authorized Biography, 113.
{390} Ibid.
{391} Robert Stigwood, The Official Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Scrapbook: The Making of a Hit Movie Musical (New York: Pocket Books, 1978).
{392} White, “Earthy Angels.”
{393} Ibid.
{394} Ibid.
{395} Stigwood, The Official Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Scrapbook.
{396} Martin, George and Jeremy Hornsby, All You Need Is Ears (London: Macmillan, 1979), 154–55.
{397} Ibid, 217–18.
{398} White, “Earthy Angels.”
{399} Grein, “‘Fever’ Sells at White Hot Pace.”
{400} Glazer, “The Rise and Fall of the Brothers Gibb.”
{401} Ben Fong-Torres, “‘Sgt. Pepper’ Returns,” Rolling Stone, November 2, 1978.
{402} Ibid.
{403} Brennan, Gibb Songs, http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/
beegees/63.html.
{404} Anthony Haden-Guest, The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, and the Culture of the Night (New York: William Morrow, 1998), 79.
{405} Stanley Mieses, “Celluloid Heroes,” Melody Maker, December 10, 1977.
{406} Janet Maslin, “Screen: Son of ‘Sgt. Pepper,’” New York Times, July 21, 1978.
{407} Marilyn Laverty, “You Can Fool . . .” Record Mirror, August 12, 1978.
{408} Paul Nelson, “Sgt. Pepper Gets Busted,” Rolling Stone, October 5, 1978.
{409} Fong-Torres, “‘Sgt. Pepper’ Returns.”
{410} Paul Gambaccini, “A Conversation with Paul McCartney,” Rolling Stone, July 12, 1979.
{411} Mick Brown, “An Interview with George Harrison,” Rolling Stone, April 19, 1979.
{412} Soocher, “Can the Bee Gees Stay on Top?”
{413} Wild, “The Bee Gees.”
{414} White, “Earthy Angels.”
{415} Jim White, “The Gift of the Gibbs,” Independent, February 21, 1991.
{416} Ben Fong-Torres, “Al Coury Owns Number One,” Rolling Stone, October 5, 1978.
{417} Ansen, “Rock Tycoon.”
{418} White, “Earthy Angels.”
{419} Ibid.
{420} “Even at Miami Studio, the Bee Gees Stay Close to Fans,” Palm Beach Post, November 27, 1981.
{421} John Rockwell, “The Bee Gees Are Getting as Big as the Beatles,” New York Times, March 19, 1978.
{422} Gibb, Bee Gees: The Authorized Biography, 132.
{423} White, “Earthy Angels.”
{424} Cutler Durkee and Jonathan Cooper, “The Bee Gees Search for Life after Disco,” People, August 7, 1989.
{425} Eve H. Malakoff, “Personalities,” Washington Post, August 21, 1960.
{426} Fong-Torres, “Al Coury Owns Number One.”
{427} Rosen, The Billboard Book of Number One Albums.
{428} Albhy Galuten to author, May 2012.
{429} White, “Earthy Angels.”
{430} Soocher, “Can the Bee Gees Stay on Top?”
{431} Ibid.
{432} Ibid
{433} Ibid.
{434} Barry Gibb to David Frost, The Bee Gees Special, NBC, November 15, 1979.
{435} White, “Earthy Angels.”
{436} Dan Daley, “Stayin’ Power,” Studio Sound, June 1997.
{437} Ruskin, “Classic Tracks.”
{438} White, “Earthy Angels.”
{439} Gibb, Bee Gees: The Authorized Biography, 135.
{440} White, “Earthy Angels.”
{441} Roman Kozak, “Backstage at a Gift of Song,” Billboard, February 3, 1979.
{442} Ibid.
{443} Ray Herbeck Jr., “Radio Syndicators Wary of Disco,” Billboard, January 13, 1979.
{444} “Word ‘Disco’ Dirty in New York Radio,” Billboard, December 8, 1979.
{445} Richard Harrington, “The Bee Gees, After the Fever; Once Stung by Critics, the Brothers Gibb Return from the Disco Dungeon,” Washington Post, August 3, 1989.
{446} Stephen Holden, “The Bee Gees’ Millennial Fever,” Rolling Stone, April 5, 1979.
{447} Mitchell, “The Act You’ve Known for All These Years.”
{448} Holden, “The Bee Gees’ Millennial Fever.”
{449} White, “Earthy Angels.”
{450} Mark Kernis, “The Bee Gees: Still Ready for a New Start,” Washington Post, March 2, 1979.
{451} Soocher, “Can the Bee Gees Stay on Top?”
{452} White, “Earthy Angels.”
{453} Robert Christgau, “Christgau’s Consumer Guide,” Village Voice, April 1979.
{454} Jim Jerome, “Bee Gee Mania,” People, August 6, 1979.
{455} Ibid.
{456} Maurice Gibb to David Frost, The Bee Gees Special, NBC, November 15, 1979.
{457} Kubernik, “How the Bee Gees Captured America.”
{458} Ibid.
{459} Geoffrey Himes, “Monday Night Fever; Shrieks and Lasers for the Bee Gees,” Washington Post, September 25, 1979.
{460} Jerome, “Bee Gee Mania,”
{461} Ibid.
{462} Ibid.
{463} White, “Earthy Angels.”
{464} “Heart Inflammation Killed Andy Gibb,” Associated Press, March 11, 1988.
{465} Eric Levin, “Death of a Golden Child,” People, March 28, 1988.
{466} Alison Steele, “Andy Gibb Close Up,” Co-Ed Magazine, November 1978.
{467} “‘Oh Brother, You’re Famous,’ Says Andy Gibb,” Fabulous 208, April 1969.
{468} Andy Gibb to Robert W. Morgan, 1978.
{469} “Glib Andy Gibb,” Philadelphia Daily News, June 5, 1978.
{470} Stan Soocher, “The Littlest Bee Gee: Andy Gibb Is More Than Just a Clone of His Successful Siblings,” Circus, August 17, 1978.
{471} Alison Steele, “Andy Gibb Close-Up,” Co-Ed, November 1978.
{472} “The Bee Gees Secret Weapon,” Teen Bag Magazine, August 1977.
{473} Connie Berman and Marsha Daly, Andy Gibb (Middletown, CT: Xerox, 1979), 15.
{474} Soocher, “The Littlest Bee Gee.”
{475} Andy Gibb to Robert W. Morgan, 1978.
{476} Soocher, “The Littlest Bee Gee.”
{477} Andy Gibb to Robert W. Morgan, 1981.
{478}
Andy Gibb to Robert W. Morgan, 1978,
{479} Soocher, “Littlest Bee Gee: Andy Gibb Is More Than Just a Clone.”
{480} Andy Gibb to Robert Mogan, 1978.
{481} Susan Duncan, “I Want Justice for Our Daughter, Says Andy Gibb’s Ex-Wife Kim,” Australian Weekly, August 1989.
{482} Ibid.
{483} Andy Gibb to Robert W. Morgan, 1981.
{484} Anonymous author interview.
{485} Andy Gibb to Robert W. Morgan, 1978,
{486} Berman, Andy Gibb, 87.
{487} Ibid, 86.
{488} Soocher, “Littlest Bee Gee.”
{489} Duncan, “I Want Justice for Our Daughter.”
{490} Andy Gibb to Robert W. Morgan, 1981.
{491} “I’ve Never Paid My Dues! Why Andy Gibb Is Scared of Success,” Teen Beat, July 1979.
{492} “Final Days of Andy Gibb,” Behind the Music, VH1, August 1997, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lq6WyysnAI.
{493} Brook Bayvel, “My Life with Andy,” Advertiser, March 15, 1988.
{494} Tatham, The Incredible Bee Gees, 119.
{495} Bayvel, “My Life with Andy.”
{496} John Rockwell, “The Bee Gees Are Getting as Big as the Beatles,” New York Times, March 19, 1978.
{497} Jim Jerome,” It’s Singles Time for Bee Gee Baby Andy Gibb: He’s Got 1977’s No. 1 Hit and a Marital Split,” People, November 14, 1978.
{498} Duncan, “I Want Justice for Our Daughter.”
{499} Ibid.
{500} Jim Jerome, “It’s Singles Time for Bee Gee Baby Andy Gibb,” People, November 14, 1977.
{501} “Please Tell Him, Kim Asks Mirror,” Daily Mirror, January 1978.
{502} “$250,000 Smile,” Daily Mirror, April 23, 1978.
{503} Glazer, “Rise and Fall of the Brothers Gibb.”
{504} Ibid.
{505} Andy Gibb to Robert W. Morgan, 1981.
{506} “Final Days of Andy Gibb,” Behind the Music.
{507} Soocher, “The Littlest Bee Gee”
{508} Mitchell, “The Act You’ve Known for All These Years.”
{509} “Final Days of Andy Gibb,” Behind the Music.
{510} Robert W. Morgan interview, 1981.
{511} Ibid.
{512} Fred Schruers, Anchorage Daily News (syndicated from Rolling Stone), July 28, 1978.
{513} Donn Downey, “Bee Gees Special Steers Clear of the Hokey,” Globe and Mail, November 21, 1979.
{514} Soocher, “Littlest Bee Gee.”
{515} Andy Gibb to Bob Durant, 1985.
{516} Stephen Holden, review of After Dark, Rolling Stone, April 17, 1980.
{517} Carla Hall, “The Fame Game,” Washington Post, August 21, 1980.
{518} Robert Hilburn, “Andy Gibb, 1970s Pop Music Sensation, Dies in England at 30,” Los Angeles Times, March 11, 1988.
{519} “Picks and Pans Review: Andy Gibb,” People, December 29, 1980.
{520} David Gritten, “Dallas Darling,” People, March 30, 1981.
{521} Carla Hall, “Stars and Austerity at Ford’s Theatre Gala,” Washington Post, March 23, 1981.
{522} “Mum Sees Andy Gibb Died,” Sun, March 11, 1988.
{523} Ibid.
{524} Jayne Reed, “Principally, Gibb,” U.S. Magazine, April 1981.
{525} Tony Brenna and Riva Dryan, Victoria Principal (Boston: St. Martin’s Press, 1989.
{526} Gritten, “Dallas Darling.”
{527} “Final Days of Andy Gibb,” Behind the Music.
{528} David Gritten, “Pam Dawber Casts Off from Mork to Crew with Andy Gibb and ‘The Pirates of Penzance,’” People, June 21, 1981.
{529} Ibid.
{530} “Tipoff,” Lakeland Ledger, September 23, 1981.
{531} Donahue, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADM6ksWP0Yk.
{532} Entertainment Tonight, March 10, 1989, .http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3YoGa6FlTw>.
{533} Brenna, Victoria Principal.
{534} “Final Days of Andy Gibb,” Behind the Music.
{535} Brenna, Victoria Principal.
{536} Ibid.
{537} Levin, “Death of a Golden Child.”
{538} Giolia Diliberto, “Awol from Broadway Once too Often, Andy Gibb Is Ordered to Turn in His Dreamcoat,” People, January 31, 1983.
{539} Bruce Baskett, “Andy Gibb,” Courier-Mail, August 16, 1986; Good Morning America, July 23, 1982, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlPzyKjITMU.
{540} “Final Days of Andy Gibb,” Behind the Music.
{541} Entertainment Tonight, March 10, 1989.
{542} Bayvel, “My Life with Andy.”
{543} Malcolm Boyles, Joanna Patyn and Richard Motlock, “Lovesick and Suicide Scare,” Globe, 1982.
{544} Brenna, Victoria Principal.
{545} “Final Days of Andy Gibb,” Behind the Music.
{546} “Break-Up Has Gibb on Edge,” Star-News, April 27, 1982.
{547} Good Morning America, Jul 23, 1982.
{548} Entertainment Tonight, December 1, 1982.
{549} Levin, “Death of a Golden Child.”
{550} Leslie Bennetts, “Absenteeism Said to Be Rising,” New York Times, March 9, 1983.
{551} Diliberto, “Awol from Broadway Once Too Often.”
{552} Levin, “Death of a Golden Child.”
{553} “Police Guard Threatened Bee Gee, and Brother Found Unconscious After Tour Leaves Him Exhausted,” Montreal Gazette, August 20, 1984; Levin, “Death of a Golden Child.”
{554} “Drug Treatment for Andy Gibb,” Courier-Mail, April 8, 1985.
{555} Andy Gibb to Bob Durant.
{556} Guy Phillips, “My Torment over Brother’s Death,” Sunday Mail, April 30, 1989.
{557} Jacqueline Lee Lewes, “Fall of a Bankrupt Star,” Sydney Sun Herald, September 13, 1987.
{558} “Singer Andy Gibb Files for Personal Bankruptcy,” Miami Herald, September 11, 1987.
{559} Ibid.
{560} “Final Days of Andy Gibb,” Behind the Music.
{561} Ibid.
{562} Ibid.
{563} “Andy Gibb,” Behind the Music, VH1, November 30, 1997.
{564} Ibid.
{565} Levin, “Death of a Golden Child.”
{566} “Final Days of Andy Gibb,” Behind the Music.
{567} “Doctors Say Heart Inflammation Caused Death of Singer Andy Gibb,” Associated Press, March 12, 1988.
{568} Phillips, “My Torment over Brother’s Death.”
{569} “Final Days of Andy Gibb,” Behind the Music.
{570} Levin, “Death of a Golden Child.”
{571} Duncan, “I Want Justice for Our Daughter.”
{572} Entertainment Tonight, March 10, 1989.
{573} Cynthia Kirk, “Bee Gees Sue Stigwood in N.Y. for Coin & Freedom After Audit,” Variety, October 15, 1980.
{574} Ibid.
{575} Marc Kirkeby, “Bee Gees Sue Stigwood, Charge Mismanagement,” Rolling Stone, November 23, 1980.
{576} Kirk, “Bee Gees Sue Stigwood.”
{577} “Stigwood Files Counterclaim to Bee Gees Suit, Seeks $310-Mil,” Variety, October 29, 1980.
{578} Ibid.
{579} Richard M. Nusser, “Stigwood Countersues Bee Gees,” Billboard, November 8, 1980.
{580} Kirkeby, “Bee Gees Sue Stigwood.”
{581} Steve Pond, “Bee Gees Say They’re Sorry,” Rolling Stone, June 25, 1981.
{582} “The Bee Gees Didn’t Say They’re Sorry . . .” Rolling Stone, August 6, 1981.
{583} Ibid.
{584} Sexton, “Q&A with Robert Stigwood.”
{585} Simon Fanshawe, “Stigwood,” Provocateur with a Purpose, December 1, 2006, http://simonfanshawe.com/?p=39.
{586} Spencer Bright, “Now the Bee Gees Are Coming Alive Again,” Daily Mail, August 6, 1993.
{587} Elder, “Stayin’ Alive.”
{588} Ken Sharp, “In One of His Last Extensive Interviews, Bee Gees’ Maurice Gibb, on the Group’s Long Career,” Goldmine, September 3, 2004.
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sp; {589} Melinda Newman, “The Beat,” Billboard, November 17, 2001.
{590} “Kenny Rogers: ‘Luck or Something Like It: A Memoir,’” The Diane Rehm Show, WAMU, October 1, 2012.
{591} Anonymous author interview.
{592} Paul Grein, “Paul Atkinson Rocks RCA’s Roster,” Billboard, July 20, 1985.
{593} White, “This Is Where We Came In.”
{594} White, “The Gift of the Gibbs.”
{595} David Sly, “Evergreen Bee Gees Shrug Off Disco,” Advertiser, September 28, 1989.
{596} Amruta Slee, “Just Stayin’ Alive,” Sydney Sun Herald, October 22, 1989.
{597} Sly, “Evergeeen Bee Gees.”
{598} Pete Clark, “It Has Never Been Cool to Admit Liking the Sobbing Sound of the Bee Gees, But After 30 Years They Deserve Their Place in the Pop Pantheon,” Evening Standard, August 5, 1993.
{599} Claire Noland, “Robin Gibb, 1949–2012, Los Angeles Times, May 21, 2012.
{600} Timothy White, “Bee Gees: ‘Still’ Taking Chances,” Billboard, February 15, 1997.
{601} The Bee Gees Walk Out of Clive Anderson, http://www.youtube
.com/watch?v=VHa6vYq6Nyk.
{602} Durkee, “The Bee Gees Search for Life After Disco.”
{603} “Stayin’ Alive,” Evening Post (Wellington), October 19, 1998.
{604} Anjie Blardony Ureta, “Fever Pitch at the Palladium,” BusinessWorld, May 7, 1999.
{605} Edna Gundersen, “The Bee Gees Are Back in the Groove; ‘Fever’ Trio Is Earning a Healthy Respect Again,” USA Today, May 6, 1997.
{606} Elder, “Stayin’ Alive.”
{607} Gundersen, “The Bee Gees Are Back in the Groove.”
{608} We Are One, www.brothersgibb.org/chart-info.html.
{609} Tracey Snell, “Bee Gees TV Special Shows Value of Peak Viewing Slots,” Music Week, August 14, 1999.
{610} Dino Scatena, “Rockin’ Retro Is Really on a Roll,” Daily Telegraph, October 28, 1998.
{611} Ward Morehouse III, “Stayin’ Alive on Broadway,” Christian Science Monitor, October 15, 1999.
{612} Ben Brantely, “Singed by a Disco Inferno,” New York Times, Oct 22, 1999.
{613} White, “This is Where We Came In,” Billboard.
{614} Phil Gould, “Off the Record: They Win Again,” Birmingham Post, April 7, 2001.
{615} Leith, “Saturday Night, Sunday Morning.”
{616} Julia Llewellyn Smith, “From Superstars to Pop Pariahs—And Back Again—The Bee Gees Have Seen It All,” Express, March 29, 2001.
{617} Leith, “Saturday Night, Sunday Morning.”
{618} Smith, “From Superstars to Pop Pariahs.”