Bee Gees

I was listening to some Bee Gees recently which I grew up on in the house. It’s incredible how they managed to stay relevant in the business beginning in the 1960’s through present day albeit there is only one remaining of the 4 brothers unfortunately. Talented family indeed. There is a great documentary that was recently released on HBO entitled, The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, about their musical journey and the actuality of the whole “Disco” backlash.

The anti Disco backlash was actually based on anti Black music and anti LGTBQ that really invented and propelled the Disco movement within music. Most of the music that was thrown into the anti “Disco” mix wasn’t Disco at all it was the Curtis Mayfields’s, Donna Summers, Soul, Dance music, anything and everything that wasn’t white bread rock or punk. The Bee Gees even highly credited Black music and Black artists for their sound. The Punk movement that came in was what really began the Anti-Disco fad. That fad was heavily based in White Supremacy which was no surprise skinheads and Nazi’s picked up on it utilizing it heavily. Anyone who was ever been in the punk scene will profess as much it was all around them. Therefore what the Bee Gees did was instead of continue to be hammered with the spewing of anti Disco rhetoric is write for other artists while dropping albums here and there. The one titled, Still Waters, in 1997 was really great and honestly one of those I grew up on.