Staying Alive: The Disco Inferno of the Bee Gees

Spence, Simon

ISBN 10: 1911036270 / ISBN 13: 9781911036272

Verlag: Jawbone Press, 2017

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'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 the Saturday Night Fever film, 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 skintight 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.

Stayin' 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 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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: SIMON SPENCE is a music journalist with first-hand experience of the 'Madchester' scene. He joined the NME in 1989, when the Happy Mondays were at the height of their powers, and has written for, amongst others, The Face, Dazed & Confused, I-D and the Independent. His most recent book is the acclaimed The Stone Roses: War and Peace (Viking, 2012; St Martin’s Press, 2013). Prior to that he had ghosted Rollings Stones' manager Andrew Loog Oldham's memoirs, Stoned and 2Stoned (both Vintage, 2001 and 2003).

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Titel: Staying Alive: The Disco Inferno of the Bee ...
Verlag: Jawbone Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good
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