thing about the breakup. i had already started a first person course. i knew what happened and what broken up was. but robin walks in, and i say i m just working on the song. do you want to do it with me? and he goes, yeah. things started just improve overtime. we became the bee gees again.
much on the balance we have been doing. we wanted to be a band so bad. and that was basically the birth of. it we had a great base, player maurice. we had a great guitar player, allen. so really the only thing we need it was a keyboard player. out of the blue. dennis called and said, look, i m putting a band together with the bg s. and i had spoken to bury, and he s an agreement. are you interested? i said, no i m having great fun i m in a rock and roll band. queen was our support act, i toured in america and was living the rock and roll life. we had grown up together playing in bands together. i said, we ve known each other for a long time, right? he said dad, don t do this me.
it s a classic 60s guitar pop sound, but then they had another thing going on. you ve got the brothers singing. when you ve got brothers singing, it s like an instrument that nobody else can buy. you can t go by that sound in a shop. you might buy a stratocaster and put it through a vox amp and sound like buddy holly. you can t sound like the bg s, we could and you ve got family members singing together, it s unique. it s the blend of the tones of each brother. and robin had this wonderful tear jerking voice. robin was a joyous kid, hysterically funny. he took great joy on being on television. this was the funniest kid you could ever meet. my father used to call him
the british group who moved into number one this week hit number one exactly four years ago to the week. the brand new number one song in the usa, the bee gees and jive talkin . when it jive talkin came out, everyone went who? the bee gees? broken heart bee gees? are you kidding? something different was happening, and the brothers felt it. to miami, miami beach, that whole vibe turned around. something melted down. it reminded me of growing up in australia. that s great, paul. and from jive talkin onwards, we kicked it out. the songwriting was just very unique.
from. robert runs up in egos, massachusetts has just gone to number one. what? to have a number one in england, you know how much we dreamed of this. massachusetts, from the bee gees. i met the bee gees at top of the, pops alice young. was i 16? maybe i was 17? top girl in america, top girl in britain, the one and only lulu. the bee gees were always in the studio, they were always recording. they would literally go in the studio and start writing. i had never known anything like that before. we don t usually write our lyrics until the day we re