FORGOTTEN HISTORY: The bee gees - The Untold Story

“People often crack jokes about that album. We had that dreadful picture on the cover with the three of us looking like the Bee Gees, and I’m thinking, ‘This is wrong’”: Carl Palmer on the disastrous album that led ELP to break up

Keith Emerson called it “an embarrassment against everything I’ve worked for”

MusicRadar · Aug 19

“People often crack jokes about that album. We had that dreadful picture on the cover with the three of us looking like the Bee Gees, and I’m thinking, ‘This is wrong’”: Carl Palmer on the disastrous album that led ELP to break up

Keith Emerson called it “an embarrassment against everything I’ve worked for”

MusicRadar · Aug 18

Before Young Talent Time, Johnny Young was a songwriter who rivaled the best of his era

Johnny Young has died at 79 from pancreatic cancer, and Australian pop music has lost another of its multifaceted creatives of the ‘60s and '70s.

The Conversation · Aug 14

Terry Cox obituary

Drummer with Pentangle, the folk-rock group who found fame in the 1960s with their fusion of jazz, blues and traditional songs

The Guardian - UK · Apr 1

Grapefruit were tipped to be the next Beatles – what happened to the band once loved by John Lennon?

PLAYBACK: If John Lennon and Paul McCartney were to be believed, Grapefruit were poised to be the next big thing in music, with one member even invited to sing on ‘Hey Jude’. Neve Dawson revisits the four-piece band that time forgot

The Independent UK · Jul 18, 2025

“We wrote it in a farmyard in France. We’d never heard of ‘disco music’ at the time. We were singing about the state of the times, and the human condition”: How the Bee Gees channelled angst and despair to create the greatest dancefloor-filler of all time

Ah, ah, ah, ah...

MusicRadar · Jul 3, 2025

“In 1989 I paid a scalper $400 for a ticket to see The Who play Tommy. It was worth every cent”: Mike Portnoy on his top prog songs and artists, and why the Rolling Stones have the greatest-ever prog album sleeve

The Dream Theater drummer’s musical world includes Rush, Yes, King Crimson, Roger Waters and Frank Zappa – alongside the Bee Gees

Louder · Jun 2, 2025

Dua Lipa wins ‘Levitating’ copyright case with a little help from Ed Sheeran

Judge referenced Sheeran’s precedent-setting 2023 victory over his song ‘Thinking Out Loud’, which was accused of plagiarising a track by Marvin Gaye

The Independent UK · Mar 28, 2025

How a lone Bee Gee became the first person to use a drum machine on a pop hit

When it hit the chart in 1969, it was the first exposure the record buying public had to an electronic beat

MusicRadar · Mar 10, 2025

10 huge hits given away from one artist to another

From Prince to Joni Mitchell and Macca to the Bee Gees, the stars who were in such a creative purple patch that they had classics going spare and shopped them elsewhere.

Louder · Feb 1, 2025