Since founding the indie pop group Saint Etienne, Bob Stanley has also enjoyed a career as a music journalist, writing extensively for the Guardian and the Times of London as well as the major music magazines. His books, Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop and its prequel Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop are considered by many to be definitive guides to the history of the genre.
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His latest book is about just one band in that history. Bee Gees: Children Of The World, the rise of a broke band of brothers who lived in England, then Australia and then England again.
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Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb went from setting other people's property on fire, in one reported incident, to setting the world on fire with dance music. With a career spanning ballads in the 1960s, disco in the seventies, numerous number one songs - often sung by other people - through the 1980s and 90s, they would be the most successful family musical trio of all time.
The Bee Gees You Tube channel still gets a million and a half views a day, and the famous songs continue to bring in millions of dollars a year.
