Bee Gees 1st

Bee Gees 1st is the debut album for the Polydor (USA: ATCO) label by The Bee Gees, released in July of 1967 (see 1967 in music). Contrary to the group's later disco-oriented releases, Bee Gees 1st was a psychedelic rock album. The song New York Mining Disaster 1941 was later covered by Chumbawamba on their WYSIWYG album, by Martin Carthy on Signs of Life, and as a B-side by the Levellers. "Every Christian Lion-Hearted Man Will Show You" has als... More

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  • Jul 14, 1967

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Bee Gees

The Bee Gees were a musical group which originally comprised three brothers: Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio were successful for most of their decades of recording music, but they had two distinct periods of exceptional success: as a pop act in the late 1960s/early 1970s, and as prominent...

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