We should be dancing.

• Author: Doherty, Brian
• Position: Briefly Noted - The Bee Gees: The Biography - Brief article - Book review

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David N. Meyer's The Bee Gees: The Biography (Da Capo) is only the second prominent attempt to tell the story of a band of brothers named Gibb who carried the recording industry on their white-suited backs in the late '70s, producing, as Meyer notes, a body of songs such that nearly every sentient being on Earth knows at least one. For three weeks in 1977-78, five of the top 10 singles were written by a Gibb.

If the insular family band felt like neglected outsiders on their path to the top, that feeling only increased as disco became a cultural embarrassment...