Robin Gibb died

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[b]GratefulFan wrote: [/b] Must have been so strange for the Bee Gees to have had so much respect and success through the 60s and the early and middle 70s only to get caught so badly and so abruptly in the disco backlash. I mean they literally became shorthand for everything that was suddenly wrong with the genre. The Stayin' Alive video alone just killed them eventually. And understandably so. Look at it! LOL Took them a long time to pull it all back together, but credit to them that they did.[/QUOTE]

It wasn't the video.  Punk Rock and a harder edge killed the entire genre.  It got Chic, The Commodores, even the poor Construction worker from The Village People.  The Bee Gees were the only act to live on thru the 80's until now and beyond.  Think of how many movies have used Stayin' Alive as some kind of reference to that era... way more than any other disco band.

I don't think they were trying to "pull it together".  They were quite satisfied with the next phase of their careers, cashing checks and "producing".  It's kind of funny how a Commodore and then the Bee Gees kept Country's Kenny Rogers going and gave him some of his biggest hits.

He died the same day as Great King Rat who was born on the 21st of May died Syphilis 44 on his birthday.

Witty abounds here, thanks for waking up my brain today.

[QUOTE] [b]mr feller 7777 wrote:[/b]
He died the same day as Great King Rat who was born on the 21st of May died Syphilis 44 on his birthday.[/QUOTE]
It's just a coincidence.

R.I.P.

"It's just a coincidence."

Are you sure? Its only that I heard that Robin Gibb's family delayed his death with drugs so that he could purposely die on the same day as a fictional character in a Queen song.

Close. They pulled the plug.