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The Bee Gees' follow-up to Saturday Night Fever was the Spirits Having Flown album. It yielded three more #1 hits: "Too Much Heaven", "Tragedy", and "Love You Inside Out." This gave the act six consecutive #1 singles in America within a year and a half (a record surpassed only by Whitney Houston). "Too Much Heaven" ended up as the Bee Gees' musical contribution to the Music for UNICEF Concert at the United Nations General Assembly in January 1979, a benefit organized by the Bee Gees, Robert Stigwood, and David Frost for UNICEF that was broadcast worldwide. The brothers donated the royalties from the song to the charity.
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The Bee Gees are three brothers: Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb; three outstanding songwriters, singers, producers and musicians. In the music business for over 40 years and with world-wide record sales exceeding 200 million, they are in the top five of the most successful recording artists of all time.
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The Bee Gees maintained their friendship with Ossie over the years. The three Gibb brothers visited him in hospital the week before he died of cancer in London in December, 1983. Ossie left his estate and his London studio to Paul Layton of the New Seekers. The Bee Gees’ 1987 release, ESP, was dedicated to his memory.
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The Bee Gees, famous for singing songs like castrated infants and getting all narky on a chatshow a few years ago, have reunited for a charity concert. Sort of - two thirds of them reunited at least.
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Spin Records release the latest Bee Gees single, "Spicks and Specks", in September 1966. On September 28th, it sneaks into the Sydney charts at number 38. It will go on to spend 19 weeks in the Sydney Top 40, and peak at number 3. Elsewhere in Australia it becomes a number one seller. The song’s impact is so great that the Melbourne based Go-Set magazine names it their "Best Record of the Year". It’s released internationally in late February 1967, and becomes their first European hit.
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Following their next album, High Civilization, which contained the UK top five hit "Secret Love," the Bee Gees went on a European tour. After the tour, Barry Gibb began to battle a serious back problem, which required surgery. In the early 1990s, Barry Gibb was not the only Bee Gee living with pain. Maurice had a serious drinking problem, which he had battled for many years, but finally conquered with the help of Alcoholics Anonymous.
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