Bee Gee facts
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The Bee Gees were going to lip sync to a record in the local Gaumont cinema, but as they were running to the theatre, the fragile shellac 78-RPM record broke. The brothers had to sing live and received such a positive response from the audience that they decided to pursue a singing career.
how bee gees died?
Spotify has a CPR playlist. All the songs on the playlist have a tempo of 100 to 120 bpm, which is the same tempo at which one should give chest compressions during CPR. Coincidently, two of the songs are: "Another One Bites the Dust" by Queen and "Stayin' Alive" by The Bee Gees.
What bee gees are alive?
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what bee gees are still alive?
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All three members of Bee Gees revealed during a copyright trial that they never learned to read or write sheet music despite being among the most prolific songwriters of all time. Instead, they developed a trial-and-error process and relied on their staff to transcribe the results.
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It was illegal for males to have long hair in Singapore from the 1960s to 1990s, causing long-haired performers such as Kitarō, Led Zeppelin and the Bee Gees to cancel their gigs in the country.
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By the mid-70's, disco and the Bee Gees were both declining in popularity. "Stayin' Alive" helped both stay alive.
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Doing chest compressions to the Bee Gees' song Staying Alive is a legitimate medical practice
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Sylvester Stallone directed the Bee Gee's "Staying Alive" music video in 1977
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That, during the recording of "Love You Inside Out," the Bee Gees pranked their manager by sending him a version of the song that replaced the line "backwards and forwards with my heart hanging out" with "backwards and forwards with my cock hanging out"
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Bee Gees "Stayin' Alive" is used for CPR training, since it is memorable and has a 104 BPM rhythm, ideal for CPR.
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The rhythm for the Bee Gees song 'Jive Talkin' was inspired by the sound their car made crossing a bridge they had to take on the way to the recording studio
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Robin Gibb, a pop singer and member of the iconic band the Bee Gees, was the first to release a major hit pop song with a drum machine in the recording. It was titled 'saved by the Bell" and reached the #2 spot in 1969 in Britain's charts.
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The top artists by decade have been The Beatles in the 60s, the Bee Gees in the 70s, Michael Jackson in the 80s, Mariah Carey in the 90s, Usher in the 2000s, and, so far, Rihanna in the 2010s.
Why bee gees?
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When performing heart compressions, you get the correct, quick pace by humming the Bee Gees tune "Stayin' Alive"
The legendary dance floor scene in "Saturday Night Fever" used Boz Scaggs "Lowdown", but Columbia refused to grant clearance for the song. The studio rushed to replace the music, hiring the Bee Gees, who wrote "Stayin' Alive". - source
Bee Gee Robin Gibb lived in the house where Joan of Arc was condemned to death
The Bee Gees' involvement in Saturday Night Fever did not begin until the film's post-production phase. During filming, John Travolta was dancing to Stevie Wonder and Boz Scaggs - source
When bee gees died?
The Bee Gees once performed a parody of their hit song "To Love Somebody" entitled "To Lose Your Penis" as a tribute to John Bobbitt
How bee gees?
The first album to ever be released on CD was Living Eyes by the Bee Gees in 1983.
The Bee Gees had never been to Massachusetts when they wrote the song of the name. They chose it as the name because they liked the sound of it.
The first ever album to be manufactured on CD was the Bee Gees' Living Eyes