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Other music forums => Various Artists, Lyrics, Discographies => Topic started by: apple sauce on November 13, 2005, 12:52:25 AM
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A band who had so many hits yet did not fit into one particular catagory? POP, Disco, rock they were every where? Lonely Days, Lonely Nights was the closest they came to a Beatle sound. 1910 Mining Disaster was huge also! The band had a string of hits that spanned 30 years!
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they rock everybody loves the gibb brothers....my wedding song was to love somebody......
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I LOVE the early BEE GEES.
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The disco Saturday Night Fever stuff they did is just infectious...I have to like it. Not that I'd dance to it..! You dance if you want to mind...have a good time! :)
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i hate all of their stuff-they sound too much like girls
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I wish they hadn't sung all those songs falsetto. I'd love to hear a Barry White baritone singing, "you can tell by the way I'm walk/I'm a woman's man, no time to talk."
The discos song can work without the disco beat too. BeeGees ought to do unplugged if they haven't yet.
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They did a live show similar to Unplugged but no for MTV. It was VH1 Storytellers I believe and it was acoustic mainly.
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Big time Cheese, but what would the 70s would have been like without them? I always thought the Robert Stigwood family tree was interesting. Forget the 6 degrees of separation, you can get from das Brothers Gibb to Clapton via Yvonne Elliman. I have to admit some of their songs and Andy Gibb's for that matter are a guilty pleasure. Hell, it was the soundtrack to my kiddie years.
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I love 'Holiday', but that was early BG's. You have to admit that they wrote a ton of stuff.
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i hate all of their stuff-they sound too much like girls
you better listen to "lonely days, lonley nights" if that's girly sounding then the "Beatles" better be wearing dresses!
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Their songs always kinda grated on my nerves for some reason. I'm not sure why, it's just something about them.
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I love 'Holiday', but that was early BG's. You have to admit that they wrote a ton of stuff.
not a ton but 255 pounds.......
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Bee Gees rule, their early stuff is great
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early gee bees stuff...
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=asturmod
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http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=asturmod
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Bee Gees rule, their early stuff is great
I like their early works from the late sixties also.
(http://www.photofeatures.com/beegees/images/prevs/beegee_b06003a.jpg)
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They sucked, but were at the right place at the right time, and again, being a victim of the 70's, were the soundtrack to a big part of my youth.
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yeah i feel that duane...but the early bee gees were super....its only words is a fantastic tune.....as is holiday,new york mining disaster,i just got to get a message to you,and the others from the same era.....as for the 70s..disco did ruin alot...i blame the osmond family tho....lolthe 70s as lame as they were,were great...rember the banasplits show??rocky and bullwinkle were big....to be a kid then was good.....discovery and life lessons were easy...i think we had it easy...do you agree?the machine ran smoothly...
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Their early stuff is pretty good. I think they
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(http://www.vaiden.net/banana_splits.jpg) (http://www.poster.net/banana-splits-the/banana-splits-the-banana-splits-the-4000234.jpg)
i remember that show...with blurp and slurp...and prince,big mamas pet lobster...
now sigmund and johnny and scott are friends
ahh the memories...7 minutes in heaven,post office,slap kiss or hug and truth or dare...the kroft super shows...we kids had less worries for sure....
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^ Loved that show. Aah - TV nostalgia. My Three Sons was big for me (my dad was a solo parent.) Hogans Heroes, Get Smart, The Invaders, The Avengers..fantastic.
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Oh my god!!!! I used to absolutely LOVE the Banana Splits!!!! ;D
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([url]http://www.vaiden.net/banana_splits.jpg[/url]) ([url]http://www.poster.net/banana-splits-the/banana-splits-the-banana-splits-the-4000234.jpg[/url])
i remember that show...with blurp and slurp...and prince,big mamas pet lobster...
now sigmund and johnny and scott are friends
the kroft super shows...
That's right! Sid and Marty Kroft. They had some weird shows. H.R. Pufnstuf, Land of the Lost, The Bugaloos... I think those guys must have been high.
Anyone remember Underdog?
Not bird, not plane, not even frog, it's just little old me...Underdog!
(http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/card/archives/underdog.jpg)
They're actually making an Underdog movie. I'm sure it will suck. It's like everything from the 70's is getting remade into some horrible movie. It's enough already.
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Any idea who wrote the songs in the Banana Splits? From what I recall they were very Monkee-esque (ala Mary Mary).
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Sod it - the Splits need a thread of their own!!!!
http://dmbeatles.com/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?m-1151582374/
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I believe this show was out the same time as "H.R. Puffinstuff" with "Witchy Poo" etc?
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The Bee Gees were and still are a guilty pleasure! Back in the day when everybody was screaming disco sucks and you know who you were, I was doing the same, but secretly listening to Staying alive, Night fever, Nights on Broadway and You should be dancing, in the car and in my room. Hell, I think To love somebody or maybe Words were some of the first 45's I owned. Closet listener or not, they still made some great music. 8)
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http://www.70slivekidvid.com/pufn.htm
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/2926.html
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The Bee Gees were and still are a guilty pleasure! Back in the day when everybody was screaming disco sucks and you know who you were, I was doing the same, but secretly listening to Staying alive, Night fever, Nights on Broadway and You should be dancing, in the car and in my room. Hell, I think To love somebody or maybe Words were some of the first 45's I owned. Closet listener or not, they still made some great music. 8)
Whoa tiger. Wasn't it you with the Anne Murray singles as well? Just how big is your closet? :)
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Whoa tiger. Wasn't it you with the Anne Murray singles as well? Just how big is your closet? :)
:D I only had the one Anne Murray single. I had the Bee Gees stuff A few years before. I started collecting around "72" With my dad handing me down classic rock and roll 45's......Elvis,Beatles,Eddie,Fats and so on. So by the time I started buying my own my closet was loaded up pretty good..... :D
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AICJNVDh0qQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AICJNVDh0qQ)
when they were young......
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Yes, that was their first appearence in TV, in 1960. That year, Barry was 13 years old, and the twins Robin and Maurice only 10 y.o.
I'm a big Bee Gees fan, I own over 20 of their albums, and there are all absolutely wonderful pieces.
More than the Beatles, the Beach Boys or any other group, the Bee Gees had the most perfect harmonizing I've ever heard.
Of course the most they sold was in the late 70's, but to me that was their worst period. Too much commercial, and I'm a fan of their ballad style. My favourite album of them is "Still Waters" (1997).
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001EYW.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)
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I have some early 60's recording from them (Ticket to ride & You wont see me from the Beatles, amongst other) and I must say that they sounded a lot like the Beatles back then but their style changed over the years.
I think they always will be underrated in the music history because of their disco phase....It's sad because all that the people remember from them is Saturday Night Fever. They have recorded better songs (in my opinion) before & after STF. Words, New York Mining disaster, Holiday, I started a joke, ect.....
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you forgot that pretty pretty one...massachusetts and that other vital message song...i just gotta get a message to you...my wedding song was to love somebody...out of all the songs i love from rock to metal to classic to punk to dengenerate to big band to country to jazz and so on...this was the song that embodied my feeling towards my significant other...sonia...they rang then and still as we have been married 12 wondersome years...
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I have the " Still Waters " album wingsman is a great album not a bad track on it :) I like there Disco period i remember the clubs and pubs were full of that sound :)
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I have the " Still Waters " album wingsman is a great album not a bad track on it :) I like there Disco period i remember the clubs and pubs were full of that sound :)
Great. Their last album, "This Is Where I Came In", from 2001, is also really good. It does not contain so many "saccharine ballads" but a good modern rock sound. Highly recommended!
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Never really liked the Bee Gees that much... They had a few good songs (especially Spicks & Specks), but the high voices are annoying...
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Never really liked the Bee Gees that much... They had a few good songs (especially Spicks & Specks), but the high voices are annoying...
If you are talking about their falsettos, well yes, maybe... But, even more than the Beatles or the Beach Boys, they had the greatest quality in vocal harmonies.
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But, even more than the Beatles or the Beach Boys, they had the greatest quality in vocal harmonies.
Nobody had better vocal harmonies than the Beach Boys...
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So I followed pc31`s advice (my teacher) and aquired a CD by Bee Gees, greatest hits. I was enchanted by their songs and am now in love with them. I`ve just seen that Penny Lane has been litening to them too. Do you, guys, like them? Were they (nearly?) as great as the Beatles in the 60s? Did the British appreciate their music in the 60s?
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Hi Jane, I saw your post to me in the other thread. :) I am glad you're enjoying the Bee Gees' music too. I like them a lot; their music is fantastic (but the Beatles will always be number one for me ;) ). I enjoy both their early work and their disco music. How about you?
I also spotted this story on Wikipedia about the Bee Gees and thought it was amusing:
Stigwood proclaimed that the Bee Gees were "The Most Significant New Talent Of 1967" and thus began the immediate comparison to The Beatles. Their first British single, "New York Mining Disaster 1941," was issued to radio station DJs with a blank white label with only the song title. Many DJs immediately assumed this was a new Beatles single and started playing the song in heavy rotation. This helped the song climb into the Top 20 in both the UK and the U.S. Only later did they realize that it was not The Beatles but in fact the Bee Gees, when their second single was released, "To Love Somebody" and again climbed into the Top 20 in the U.S.
You have to feel sorry for some of the up-and-coming bands in the Sixties, being compared to the Beatles! Talk about pressure. :-/
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Hope you guys don't mind, I've merged your Bee Gees thread with an older one.
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^ No problem, BM, thanks for keeping things organized!
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Hi, Penny Lane! Yes, I like their disco music but still less than the early stuff. The early songs are very melodic, beautiful, of a special Bee Gees style. To Love Somebody is a great song. But I can`t believe somebody could have confused them with the Beatles! What about the voices and the manner of singing? Were DJs so incompetent at that time?
In general I don`t like Disco, but Bee Gees disco is somehow nice for me. Besides, I adore the film Saturday Night Fever with John Travolta. The plot is trivial but the film is well-made with Bee Gees songs. And John is so young and handsome there, dancing his classical disco dance, which has become well-known to everybody. I love him there! :) Have you seen the film?
I also assume that the pressure in the 60s was great. But we have to ask our senior posters about it. Especially the witnesses of the events, the first-hand experiencers.
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i like The Bee Gees to an extent.Some of their early stuff is quite good.Harry Braff is an outstanding tune.World is another.Ive meaning to get their 1st few albums for some time.The group are featured in a fairly little known gem of a film called Melody(1971).The songs ,I think,are from 1968/69.Jack Hawkins stars in this.Actually,the BGs themselves dont appear in the film,but about 6 songs are used for the soundtrack.Melody itself is a lovely song.
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i like The Bee Gees to an extent.Some of their early stuff is quite good.Harry Braff is an outstanding tune.World is another.Ive meaning to get their 1st few albums for some time.The group are featured in a fairly little known gem of a film called Melody(1971).The songs ,I think,are from 1968/69.Jack Hawkins stars in this.Actually,the BGs themselves dont appear in the film,but about 6 songs are used for the soundtrack.Melody itself is a lovely song.
I keep meaning to get their first album too , i got Bee Gees "Greatest"(1979) before Christmas it's a remasterd CD of all the disco period songs and it's really quite good a lot of those songs still hold up "Wind Of Change" and "Nights On Broadway" i really like .
There are half a dozen new remix 's on this CD which don't work however .
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gotta be honest.im not keen on the disco stuff,really.they were quite an interesting group early on.and withthe Melody film,i meant Jack Wilde,not Hawkins,LOL
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.and withthe Melody film,i meant Jack Wilde,not Hawkins,LOL
Slight difference in age! ;)
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Besides, I adore the film Saturday Night Fever with John Travolta. The plot is trivial but the film is well-made with Bee Gees songs. And John is so young and handsome there, dancing his classical disco dance, which has become well-known to everybody. I love him there! :) Have you seen the film?
I've only seen a part of it, and that was many years ago.
And now I'll throw in this Bee Gees video just for fun:
3MimhntJK6Y (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MimhntJK6Y)
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Why, do they have the song called Wind Of Change? Like the Scorpions?
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Finally got round to buying the "Bee Gees 1st " (1967) and i must say it's a 10 out of 10 masterpiece of an album.
Only The Beatles have recorded better albums than this .
I knew four of the tracks from Bee Gees compilations , but had never heard this album until this weekend , released 8 weeks after Sgt.Pepper's it's andacious kind of psychedelic trip.
But more like that slow comedown from a high kind of trip, were your mind wallows in beautiful dreamy pools of rainbow light ( Think thats what you call Flashback memory that sentance lol
But i thought only Lennon could write a trippy lyric , but "Red Chair Fade Away " by Robin and Barry Gibb come's close to him on this trippy song.
And Marice Gibbs use of the "Mellotron" evokes Strawberry Fields, a very Beatle sounding song really as are several on this album .
Infact one track i believe to be The Beatles "In My Own Time" is just like them , it's the best mimic of them i've ever heard .
Quite simply one of the best albums ever (thumbsup)
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^^^^^^Here are the two songs from the Bee Gess 1st album i mentioned in the above post , tell me that In My Own Time is'nt the best rip off of The Beatles ever ?
All the songs on the album are this standard it's a masterpiece , i tell you .
HolchHOe7eM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HolchHOe7eM)
4bXB9vFcs_A (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bXB9vFcs_A)
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Forgot to say this albums been remastered and their is a stereo and mono mix of the album and a second CD of different takes and unreleased tracks of the period.
And did i say it's a masterpiece lol
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i agree even tho it is songs built up over a few years...the whole thing is t totally awesome....
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Ive been toying with buying their first album for a while now.Been totally swayed.Its near the very top of my list.Looking forward to hearing it in its entirity.
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Ive been toying with buying their first album for a while now.Been totally swayed.Its near the very top of my list.Looking forward to hearing it in its entirity.
I'm totally knocked out by this album , i'm playing it none stop, not one of the 14 songs is a dud.
Everything about it i love , inparticular i'm very impressed by Robin's singing his voice is really powerful and emotional his performance on "I can't See Nobody" is one of the best vocals i've heard from a man ?
"Turn Of The Century " and "Craise Finton Kirk are just such Beatle sounding songs ?
Don't think you will be disaponted by this album Python it's a stunner .
The amazing Robin singing "I can't See Nobody"
A2zuNt2EOUY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zuNt2EOUY)
Tp2eFroUr8U (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp2eFroUr8U)
Johnny Young - covering Craise Finton Kirk
9Kxfq-E0G3Y (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kxfq-E0G3Y)
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i agree even tho it is songs built up over a few years...the whole thing is t totally awesome....
Agree totally awesome
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I love them...they are my wife's favorite group.
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I remember when they walked off a prime time tv chat show, that guy Clive whatsit was THE tosser
you have to watch till the end
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHa6vYq6Nyk#t=588 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHa6vYq6Nyk#t=588)
There is a place near where I live called Bee Gee's Way
Where they lived from late 50's
Bee Gees Way is located off Redcliffe Parade, Redcliffe and includes a life-size statue, 60 photographs, 13 album covers, a mural of the band as well as songs and captions provided by Barry Gibb.
https://www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/gener (https://www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/gener) ... ?id=119400
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I remember when they walked off a prime time tv chat show, that guy Clive whatsit was THE tosser
I had to look up the word tosser in the Urban Dictionary (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Tosser&defid=5977257) and from what I just saw in that video I can say that Clive Anderson was definitely the first word in the definition! Even though I traded my Saturday Night Fever album for the first Styx album (another band that lost me in the 80's) I would call myself fan of the Bee Gee's music; especially their early work. I've never really seen them interviewed but now I'm also a fan of their personalities. They certainly gave Clive every opportunity to stop being a tosser but he was hopeless!
Bee Gees Way is located off Redcliffe Parade, Redcliffe and includes a life-size statue, 60 photographs, 13 album covers, a mural of the band as well as songs and captions provided by Barry Gibb.
[url]https://www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/gener[/url] ([url]https://www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/gener[/url]) ... ?id=119400
I couldn't get that link to work but this seems to be it: Bee Gees Way (https://www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/general.aspx?id=119400)
If I ever get to Australia that will be on my list of things to do.
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Hardly surprising, Clive Anderson does support Arsenal.
If you like the early Bee Gees there is a fantastic compilation of other artists covering their songs in the late 60s called 'Maybe Someone Is Digging Underground'. It came out 10 years ago on a Castle CD.
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In addition to what came out of the Sgt. Pepper's film in 1978, the Bee Gees covered a lot of Beatles songs. In 1976 there was another film, All This and World War II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_This_and_World_War_II), which was so poorly received that it was pulled after two weeks. Of course that means I'm dying to see it and despite the fact that it was never released on any home video it's here:
http://youtu.be/ddtDTy_UuDA (http://youtu.be/ddtDTy_UuDA)
I'm afraid I really can't get too enthused about the covers I've heard with a couple of exceptions. Marshall posted what looks like a neat video from TV but the audio is all I could find on YouTube now:
From Me to You 1964
http://youtu.be/QFGrucPQh_k (http://youtu.be/QFGrucPQh_k)
I think that is adorable!^^
You Won't See Me 1966
http://youtu.be/b1F_LG4IvzM (http://youtu.be/b1F_LG4IvzM)
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I want to watch this, even though Celine Dion appears briefly in the beginning, telling us that the Bee Gees had hit after hit. But Brian Wilson, Alice Cooper and George Martin come right after so it's okay. LOL
This is Where I Came In
http://youtu.be/lpdJuQDO86M (http://youtu.be/lpdJuQDO86M)
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I had to look up the word tosser in the Urban Dictionary ([url]http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Tosser&defid=5977257[/url]) and from what I just saw in that video I can say that Clive Anderson was definitely the first word in the definition! Even though I traded my Saturday Night Fever album for the first Styx album (another band that lost me in the 80's) I would call myself fan of the Bee Gee's music; especially their early work. I've never really seen them interviewed but now I'm also a fan of their personalities. They certainly gave Clive every opportunity to stop being a tosser but he was hopeless!
I couldn't get that link to work but this seems to be it: Bee Gees Way ([url]https://www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/general.aspx?id=119400[/url])
If I ever get to Australia that will be on my list of things to do.
Its quite impressive Kelley and thankfully so far no little tossers have vandalised it ha2ha
It doesnt mention theyre English, as usual, anyone who spends 10 minutes in Oz becomes Australian glassesslip
Its funny in the video that Maurice (forever the gentleman) leaves last and is still being polite to Anderson
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I want to watch this, even though Celine Dion appears briefly in the beginning...
I get a headache just looking at a picture of her.
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Its funny in the video that Maurice (forever the gentleman) leaves last and is still being polite to Anderson
Robin looked like he wanted to leave from the very beginning of that interview.
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Even though I traded my Saturday Night Fever album for the first Styx album (another band that lost me in the 80's)
Is that the group with the bald drummer?