The songwriter behind 'Stayin' Alive' and 'How Deep Is Your Love' kept writing long after the disco ball stopped spinning.
For the full picture, listen to 'How Deep Is Your Love' next to something like 'Star Crossed Lovers.' The voice is the same, but the room got quieter.
If you know the Bee Gees, you know Barry Gibb's voice, that high, plaintive lead on 'Stayin' Alive' and 'How Deep Is Your Love' that soundtracked the late '70s. But his solo work, like 'Lesson in Love' and 'Star Crossed Lovers,' shows he never stopped writing songs, even after the spotlight shifted. There's a whole catalog of later material that moves beyond the Saturday Night Fever era, quieter and more reflective.
He started singing harmonies with his brothers in the late '50s, drawing from The Everly Brothers. Their 1967 hit 'To Love Somebody' broke them, and a decade later the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack made them disco icons. After his brothers passed, Gibb kept recording songs like 'Mando Bay' and performing on his own.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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