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May 21, 2012 at 10:29 am
I’m still reeling from Donna Summer. =(
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May 21, 2012 at 10:42 amPatrice
So sad. I am a fan of early Bee Gees songs, which still get regular radio play here. My favourites are Massachusetts, How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, Nights on Broadway, and especially Lonely Days, Words, and I Started a Joke. Robin’s distinctive vibrato was one of hallmarks of the group, the UK’s equivalent/answer to America’s The Beach Boys. They must have taken a lot heat from some critics for doing the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and becoming synonymous with disco, but if nothing else, it showed just how versatile they were. I doubt their equally famous seminal 1960s music contemporaries – Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones etc. – could have so successfully crossed over (some would say sold out) like that.
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May 21, 2012 at 10:46 amPatrice
And that’s two of the cornerstones of disco lost in less than a week!
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May 21, 2012 at 6:02 pm
The third that rounded out the trio was Chuck Brown, a Go Go music cornerstone. He came up around the same time, though a different genre of music. You might have heard of this one : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwHi10qX8u8
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May 21, 2012 at 6:00 pm
Watched this yesterday : http://www.biography.com/people/groups/the-bee-gees/videos/the-bee-gees-in-our-own-time-full-episode-2223332044?cmpid=MRSS_Hulu_BIO
Pretty cool stuff! Can’t knock the inspiration for their falsetto sound… definitely explains why I like their disco stuff so much. I also appreciate that they wrote a lot of their own music…and wrote for a lot of other artists I like.
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