FEW GROUPS IN history have been as successful as the Bee Gees. And yet, as Bob Stanley acknowledges, at almost no point in a career of five decades, and 220 million records sold, have they been considered cool. Instead, they’ve often been unfairly mocked and derided.
Which is where comes in. “I’ve written this book,” Stanley tells us, “to give them their rightful place at the very top of pop’s table.” And from there, he makes a case that