And here also lies the key to reconciling the Gibb brothers’ first fame to their 70s renaissance. After the nadir of 1973’s A Kick In The Head Is Worth Eight In The Pants - an album their label deemed too poor to release - it was 1975’s Main Course that reminded the Bee Gees what they did best of all. Like their bluesier contemporaries Fleetwood Mac, it took them half a decade to hit upon a new winning formula. But, of course, in order to weather the pop-cultural hangover heralded by the end of the 60s, the Bee Gees had to change. For anyone who wasn’t around to witness the Bee Gees’ transition from soft-psych baroque popsmiths t o world-beating dispensers of dancefloor manna, the prospect of reconciling these two utterly different groups is a perplexing one.
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