Staying Alive: The Disco Inferno Of The Bee Gees
by Simon Spence
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 1911036270
- ISBN 13
- 9781911036272
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About This Item
'We didn't know what the film was about. We didn't know there was a conflict of image that could perhaps hurt us later on. It sort of grew, blew out of proportion.' BARRY GIBB
In the late 70s, The Bee Gees spectacularly revived their career and, with their soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever, became the biggest disco group in the world. But when the disco boom crashed, they went from icons to punch lines overnight. The band was inescapably frozen in time, all long, flowing manes, big teeth, falsettos, medallions, hairy chests, and skin-tight satin trousers, one finger forever pointing in the air.
The Bee Gees would spend the next forty years trying to convince people there was more to them, growing ever more resentful of their gigantic disco success. 'We'd like to dress "Stayin' Alive" up in a white suit and gold chains and set it on fire, ' they said.
Staying Alive finally lifts that millstone from around their necks by joyfully reappraising and celebrating their iconic disco era. Taking the reader deep into the excesses of the most hedonistic of music scenes, it tells of how three brothers from Manchester transformed themselves into the funkiest white group ever and made the world dance. No longer a guilty pleasure but a national treasure.
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- Bookseller
- The Anthropologists Closet (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 349
- Title
- Staying Alive: The Disco Inferno Of The Bee Gees
- Author
- Simon Spence
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1911036270
- ISBN 13
- 9781911036272
- Publisher
- Jaw Bone Press
- Date Published
- 2017
- Keywords
- Music, Disco, Movie tie-in, Barry Gibbons, brothers, band,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Music;
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