gees are looking for a drummer. are you interested? i went, yes, i think i m interested. yeah. i am interested. we needed to get more energized and don t rely so much on the ballads that we had been doing. we wanted to be a band so bad. and that was basically the birth of it. we had a great bass player, maurice. we had a great guitar player, alan. really the only thing we needed was a keyboard player. i thought lou. dennis called and said, look, you know, i m putting a band together with the bee gees. and i ve spoken to barry, and everybody s in agreement. are you interested? i said, no. no. i m having great fun. i m in a rock and roll band. queen was our support act. i m touring america and living the rock and roll life.
called 461 ocean boulevard in miami. why don t you guys make an album in america and so always make an album in england? and maybe a change of environmental do something for you. the studio there was unbelievable. and i think that s what the suggestion was about, really. i thought those guys were actually an r&b band that hadn t really work that out yet. i thought, man, this would be so good if they could pick up on what s going on in america. i do know that they had to change something. that s when the whole idea of actually being more of a band together rather then use asians and orchestras and all that stuff. allen kendall, who s a friend of mine, said the bee gees are looking for a drummer. are you interested? and i went, yeah. i think i m interested, yeah. i m interested. we needed to get more energized, and don t rely so
they re a brilliant chapter in the book of music. some people are footnotes, some people take up pages, dylan is huge. but the bee gees are there. you go back and look at their body of work. it s some of the best songs ever written. there s nothing else to say about the bee gees, except they were effin awesome.
disco tracks and everyone will play it for the party and start dancing. these were comparatively easy, but we needed the bee gees to write a few songs. phone call came through from robert, said, i want to make these songs. it wasn t the idea they would do the sound track. but have you got some songs? robert said, i m sending you a script. but we decided not to read the script. we weren t writing theater music. we were writing our new album and just having fun doing it. they already had a couple of tunes or some titles anyway. we thought maybe it was them. what we ended up doing was demos of these songs. and i was really surprised that, you know, it was only a few weeks later we got the song. we got a cassette. and to this day, it s amazing.
section. the same way a horn just punches, that s what barry s voice reminds me of. i was always into arrangement of instruments. their voices together sound like trumpets to me. you should be dancing, yeah i am not high, for the record. i just want to it was a discovery. we ve discovered an audience. at the club, you should be dancing exploded. not just, oh, well, i heard that record and i really liked it. it was three times a night at any club that you went to. there was a whole industry that was built around this clubbing thing. billboards started a chart that was dance music chart. this billion dollar industry was being built way before the bee